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Lucknow: Struggle for beds continues, helplines hang up to SOS calls

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LUCKNOW: Despite addition of more hospitals for Covid-19 treatment, patients continued to struggle for critical care bed in a Covid facility on Wednesday. 

From lack of information in public domain about availability of 

beds to not getting response to SOS calls on helplines, finding a hospital bed remains a Herculean task.

The online dashboard (https://beds.dgmhup-covid19.in/EN/covid19bedtrack) providing bed occupancy status in Covid hospitals started functioning on Wednesday, but since adequate publicity of the portal has not been made by the administration, many were not aware about it.


Even those who were aware about it found that the portal, as on Wednesday night, had names and details of only two dozen hospitals out of 72 in the city.

Those who managed to get the contact numbers of private hospitals were greeted by engaged tones. In some cases, calls were taken but people were informed that all beds that are to be filled without the chief medical officer’s (CMO) referral are occupied.


People also complained about inadequate response from the Integrated Covid Command Control Centre (ICCC) when they called for beds reserved under CMO-referral category. Most were told that critical care beds are not available, while isolation beds are in abundance.

We know only some big Covid hospitals and are not aware about others,” said Anoop Kumar who frantically called helplines to get a hospital bed for his mother, a Covid-29 patient whose blood 

oxygen

 level dropped to 70% on Tuesday night.


Homemaker Roma Suri, who desperately wanted to hospitalise her ailing husband, complained that numbers of some private hospitals remained constantly busy. “A few hospitals which took the calls informed me that no oxygen supported bed is available. Then I called ICCC for a CMO referral bed but got the response that all beds with oxygen support are full,” she added.


Rajneesh Kushwaha had to wait for six hours to get a CMO referral to get his wife admitted to a government aided medical college. “All my family members tried desperately from 10am and we could get a bed in the evening,” he said.


He later got phone numbers of some private Covid hospitals from his friends. “I called at least 15 hospitals, but in most places the phone was busy. I then drove from one hospital to another with my mother in the car for four hours when finally, I could get a bed in a facility on IIM Road in the morning,” he added.


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