The division bench of the Gujarat High Court has reprimanded the Gujarat government for not taking a "serious note" of its orders passed on real-time hospital bed availability during a hearing held over the second wave of Covid-19 in .
Experts say as a thumb rule, out of 100 admitted patients of Covid-19, 20 would require ICU and out of 20, 8 would require ventilator (Representative image)
Ahmedabad: As doctors face the distressing duty of telling Covid patients’ kin that ICUventilator beds are not available, the relatives are braving extraordinary struggles to organize the lifesaving machines on their own.
It is stupendously difficult for common people to get such specialized equipment, but the despair-powered hunt gives the only chance to save their seriously ill kin. The benevolence of strangers is coming as life support, literally, as most machines are lent by unrelated people to ward off human tragedies.