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.
Covid patients seen sleeping on footpath outside BRIMS Hospital in Karnataka’s Bidar
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.
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Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai, speaking to media representatives at Humnabad in Bidar district, had said that there was no dearth of either drugs, including Remdesivir, or beds in hospitals for treating COVID-19 patients.
However, a video clip showing relatives of COVID-19 patients requesting the staff at Bidar Institute of Medical Sciences to treat patients on the hospital floor itself, if there were no beds available, that went viral on Monday tells a different story. The staff are seen turning down the request as the hospital was full.
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BELAGAVI: While the number of fresh Covid-19 cases are burgeoning in some districts of the state, Bengaluru Urban especially, most districts in North Karnataka have seen only a marginal increase over the past week.
While district administrations have kept beds ready in case there is a second wave of infections, it has also implemented several safety measures such as tightening movement across the border to prevent spread of the virus.
Over the past three days, most districts in North Karnataka barring Kalaburagi have seen between one and 20 cases daily. In Kalaburagi though 78 cases were registered over the past three days – 37 on March 5 alone.