As neighbouring Maharashtra reported COVID-19 cases among children, Bidar Deputy Commissioner Ramachandran R. held an emergency meeting of top officers from different departments, especially the Depar
KKRDB extends financial aid for two oxygen containers
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To fight COVID-19, the Kalyana Karnataka Region Development Board (KKRDB) will extend financial assistance for infrastructure related to oxygen support in six districts of the Kalyana Karnataka region, Chairman of KKRDB Dattatreya Patil Revoor has said.
Chairing a meeting to review the COVID-19 situation in Bidar on Wednesday, Mr. Revoor said that the KKRDB will release funds for purchasing two oxygen containers one for Bidar, Kalaburagi and Yadgir districts and the other for Raichur, Ballari and Koppal districts.
The tender process has been initiated and 50% of the amount for purchasing oxygen containers has been released to the saving accounts of the Deputy Commissioners office, Mr. Revoor said.
HUBBALLI/ BIDAR: Amid mounting anxiety over availability of beds and oxygen with Covid-19 cases rising in the seven districts comprising the Belagavi division – Dharwad, Belagavi, Bagalkot, Vijayapura, Gadag, Uttara Kannada and Haveri – the authorities have taken steps to ensure that taluk hospitals and other healthcare institutions are in a position to accommodate all infected patients.
Across the division, 5,880 beds have been arranged at government hospitals in the seven districts, including those supplied with oxygen and those in the ICU.
Divisional joint director of health and family welfare Dr Prabhu Biradar said that government hospitals and health centres had been directed to tend to patients with mild to moderate symptoms of Covid-19. “In taluk hospitals, around 50% of the beds have oxygen supply, and each of them has around two to five ventilators. And if the situation worsens, all these hospitals are prepared to handle the load,” Dr Biradar added.
KPCC working president Eshwar Khandre, who is also the MLA from Bhalki, said his followers found out that not all of them lying on the corridors at BRIMS were Covid patients.
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Visuals of Covid patients sleeping on the footpath outside Bidar Institute of Medical Sciences (BRIMS) have emerged. Karnataka’s health minister said an attempt to augment the city’s medical infrastructure is underway.
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UPDATED: April 23, 2021 03:00 IST
Visuals of Covid patients sleeping on the footpath outside Bidar Institute of Medical Sciences (BRIMS) have emerged. (Photo: Nolan Pinto)
Visuals of Covid patients sleeping on the pavement outside Bidar Institute of Medical Sciences (BRIMS) in Karnataka’s Bidar city have emerged. Due to a shortage of hospital beds, patients have no option but to wait outside and sleep there till they get a bed, sources said.