A patient gets treated on a wheelchair in Bharuch hospital
Bharuch/Surat: The coronavirus situation in Bharuch district has become alarming over the past couple of weeks with hospitals, government and private, witnessing a heavy influx of Covid-19 infected patients. So much so, at some hospitals, Covid-19 patients are being given primary treatment on stretchers, wheelchairs and even in the hospital waiting rooms, due to lack of beds in the Covid wards.
Al-Mehmood General Hospital, run by a trust at Jambusar, 50km from Bharuch, is one such hospital which is flooded with Covid-19 patients. Doctors here said that they have no other option but to treat the patients on a wheelchair, stretcher or in the waiting room as all 90 beds in the hospital have been occupied. Nearly 50% of the beds are occupied by Covid-19 infected patients.