Reserving 80% of beds won’t help: Private hospitals
BySridhar VivanSridhar Vivan / Updated: Apr 30, 2021, 06:00 IST
Private hospitals have said that the government’s move of reserving 75-80 per cent of
beds for
covid treatment will not help in any way. This will only increase the plight of patients who will be shifted to a government quota and face further inconvenience.
Strongly condemning this, Dr Prasanna H M, President of the
Private Hospitals and Nursing Homes Association (PHANA), said, “The
State Government does not understand that by increasing the reservation to 75 per cent, there won’t be any addition of beds. Currently, there are 2 lakh-plus active cases in Bengaluru.
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BENGALURU: With 3.2 lakh active cases in Karnataka, estimates by the state government indicate that nearly 56,000 patients may require oxygenated beds and 10,000 would need ICUs, going by ‘past experience’.
Not all of them would need these beds at the same time. However, the burden handled by the healthcare system in Karnataka in the second wave is three times that of the first wave of Covid-19.
“Oxygen requirement is projected based on the past experience that 17% of active cases may require oxygen beds and 3% of active cases may require ICU beds,” the state has submitted to the Karnataka high court.