Experts say rather than waste funds on CCCs, the government should focus on increasing ICU and oxygenated beds.
BENGALURU: Although there are very few takers for these beds, the state government and many private organisations are busy setting up Covid Care Centres (CCC) across the state. CCCs are meant for mild or asymptomatic patients and the aim is to reduce the burden on hospitals.
Health department officials say CCCs with a total 10,000 beds have been set up across the state over the past two weeks, but very few have oxygenated beds. As a result, less than 30% of beds across CCCs are occupied. In Bengaluru alone, there are around 2,500 beds in about 30 CCCs, including 500 oxygenated beds. In all, only 750 beds are occupied.
Experts say rather than waste funds on CCCs, the government should focus on increasing ICU and oxygenated beds.
BENGALURU: Although there are very few takers for these beds, the state government and many private organisations are busy setting up Covid Care Centres (CCC) across the state. CCCs are meant for mild or asymptomatic patients and the aim is to reduce the burden on hospitals.
Health department officials say CCCs with a total 10,000 beds have been set up across the state over the past two weeks, but very few have oxygenated beds. As a result, less than 30% of beds across CCCs are occupied. In Bengaluru alone, there are around 2,500 beds in about 30 CCCs, including 500 oxygenated beds. In all, only 750 beds are occupied.
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MYSURU: Over the past couple of weeks, several Covid-19 patients – even those suspected to have contracted the infection – have committed suicide, fearing stigmatisation or that they would pass on the infection to family members.
The number of such cases has risen exponentially and has posed a challenge for experts who say counselling such a huge number of people is next to impossible.
Since Sunday, three Covid-19 patients – all senior citizens in Old Mysuru region – ended their lives. The suicide of a retired deputy tahsildar in Chikkamagalur was perhaps the most shocking. The trend is increasing in North Karnataka districts too.
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HAVERI: A Hindu family waiting to cremate their loved one was in for a shock when they realised that the body was not of their family member. The painful incident of negligence came to light on Tuesday as the bodies of the two victims belonging to two different communities were swapped at the Haveri District Covid Hospital.
The Hindu family was upset and demanded that the body be exhumed and handed over to them so that they could perform the last rites as per their tradition. But, the district hospital authorities refused to do so citing Covid protocol which does not allow the exhumation of a Covid body once it has been buried.
MANGALURU: Weddings may have led to the recent Covid-19 surge in Dakshina Kannada. Several guests who attended wedding functions last month have tested positive for Covid-19.
A family organised a wedding ceremony with limited guests at a hall on April 25. A few days after the event, the groom’s father tested positive and spent a few days in the ICU, before being discharged. Similarly, several guests who attended a Christian wedding in the first week of April, had reportedly tested positive for Covid-19. “Most of the family members of those who attended the wedding from Sakleshpur, and other guests tested positive for the novel coronavirus,” said a source close to the family. An aged couple who hosted a wedding in their house in Vamanjoor, tested positive for Covid-19. Likewise, many guests including family members who attended a wedding at a house in Kunjathbail, have tested positive for the novel coronavirus.