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Many are forced to seek treatment in private hospitals
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Ten beds have been earmarked for COVID-19-associated mucormycosis patients at Bowring and Lady Curzon hospital in Bengaluru.
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Many are forced to seek treatment in private hospitals
Ravi G. waited for hours at Bowring and Lady Curzon Medical College and Research Institute to get a bed for his brother Muralikrishna, who was diagnosed with black fungus or mucormycosis after he got COVID-19. But the wait was in vain.
The government had earmarked 10 beds at the institute for COVID-19-associated mucormycosis (CAM), which filled up within hours on Wednesday. “There is a long queue of patients waiting for a bed. I eventually admitted my brother to a private hospital, but I am unable to bear the expense,” said Mr. Ravi.
Victoria’s dirty secret
Testing positive for covid is a nightmare in itself but for some
patients like Mamatha KS, a resident of
Kumaraswamy layout, her stay in a hospital, under the
Suvarna Arogya Suraksha Trust (SAST) quota, was worse than the symptoms of the infections. Her father too had a hard time as a patient in the SAST quota, she says.
Mamatha said she got admitted to
Victoria Hospital on April 27th after her oxygen saturation dropped to 82, and her
HRCT severity score was 15/25. While her admission formalities to a general covid ward were underway, she says she was given a bed where an elderly woman who was occupying it had died due to covid. “I was told that the elderly patient had collapsed in the bathroom and there was no one to help her. Three patients from the ward told me that they brought her back to her bed and later she was declared dead by the doctors. Her body was placed on the floor next to me for nearly a day,” said Mamatha, still shocked by t
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However, it is slower in government hospitals as they focus on critical cases
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However, it is slower in government hospitals as they focus on critical cases
With the COVID-19 pandemic spinning out of control and availability of beds becoming a challenge during this second wave, doctors in private hospitals are discharging patients on the fourth or fifth day if they develop clinical stability.
This is different from last year when there were specific norms on when a patient should be discharged.
V. Ravi, member of the State’s Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) and nodal officer for genomic confirmation of SARS-CoV-2 in Karnataka, said discharging patients soon after they develop clinical stability is essential so that beds are released for others who are in dire need of hospitalisation.