Reza Mahmud :
Covid-19 dedicated hospitals in the capital are overflowing with the corona patients, most of them from other districts.
Officials of those hospitals said the constant rush of covid patients from outside Dhaka is making the situation unbearable.
“Thirty-five of our ICU beds are totally occupied, while five out of 285 general beds for covid patients are now vacant for some moment. If you call me just after an hour I do not think that a single bed would be available then,” Dr. Asim Kumar Nath, Director of the hospital, told The New Nation on Thursday.
He said we used to discharge several patients in the morning and receive new patients shortly, it is every day’s phenomena.
He said that the health officials have not any say now, because all of them have warned people many times about consequence of their negligence.
On spot visit on Thursday, the officials of the Covid unit of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University were found huge busy.
When contacted, one of them said preferring anonymity that they were passing very busy days with the serious pressure from the aspirant covid patients.
“All the beds of this hospital are filled, but the relatives of covid patients are insisting for admitting their closest ones. We are tired of saying that we have a limitation,” said one of the officials sitting on patients’ admission desk.
He said that they have admitted above 30 patients till 3pm.
The officials said that most of the patients admitted in the hospital are from outside Dhaka.
The data from the Directorate General of Health Services showed that only 16 out of 385 ICU beds in 17 government covid dedicated hospitals in Dhaka were vacant till 12:00pm on Thursday.
The data showed that 12 out of the 17 hospitals have empty seats in ICUs in the major hospitals including BSMMU, Kuwait Friendship, DMCH and others.
Public health experts and study suggested that delta variant is liable behind the recent surge of infections across the country.
A new study conducted by BSMMU and revealed on Thursday showed that about 98pc of Covid-19 patients in the country are infected by the highly contagious Delta variant.
Making the disclosure in a press release on Thursday, BSMMU said the results were found after genome sequencing swab samples collected from 300 Covid-19 positive patients across the country.
BSMMU Vice-Chancellor Professor Md Sharfuddin Ahmed, also the genome sequencing Research Supervisor, said this was the initial one month’s result of the research and it will continue.The research was conducted from June 29 to July 30, it said.
Earlier, public health experts warned that the Indian (delta) variant would be deteriorating.
“As like the neighbouring India, the delta variant may create mayhem in Bangladesh,” Public Health Expert Dr. Lenin Chowdhury told The New Nation.
He said that without taking ultra cautionary measures and stern actions against any violation of health safety rules, the health care facilities would not able to cope the situation.
