Reza Mahmud :
Covid designated hospitals in the capital are now admitting patients having serious respiratory problems as most of them have already crossed their capacities.
As Covid infections are on sharp rise, the city hospitals are struggling to cope with the rising number of patients and limited bed capacities, sources said.
Talking with authorities of the capital’s Covid dedicated hospitals, it has been found that most of them have crossed their seat capacities in recent days.
But the waves of patients are knocking at the doors every day for admission to those hospitals where there is no vacant bed.
“We are under acute pressures. The situation is worsening day by day. We cannot allot beds to patients in need every day. A large number of them have been turned as we have no other option,” Professor Dr. Faruk Ahmed, Director of Sheikh Russell Gastroliver Institute and Hospital told The New Nation on Sunday.
He said that they are passing very busy time to convince patients to go to other hospitals or stay home and take treatment there if it is possible.
Visiting on spot in Mugda Medical College Hospital on Saturday it also found excessive pressures of patients.
The officials of the hospital have become tired of denying the patients and their relatives saying that they have no other way.
Officials from other hospitals gathered the similar bitter experiences.
In these situations, the hospitals are admitting only those patients who need oxygen support urgently.
“Patients whose oxygen is saturation bellow 90 per cent only, they can be selected for admission in our hospital,” Dr. M Khalilur Rahman, Director of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital told The New Nation on Sunday.
“While several Covid-19 patients were suffering from respiratory problem, but had oxygen saturation up to 90 per cent, we cannot allot them any seat because of our limitations,” the Director said.
Authorities from other hospitals also expressed similarly.
“Patients who have oxygen saturation below 95 per cent but up to 90 per cent, should have to get admitted in hospitals for oxygen support, but we are compelled to ignore those, due to our limitations,” Dr. Asim Kumar Nath, Director of the Mugda Medical College Hospital told The New Nation on Sunday.
He said that his hospital also is admitting patients with oxygen saturations only below 90 per cent.
The other patients who have oxygen saturation up to 90 percent we advise certain physical exercises so that overcome the shortness of the oxygen saturation, the Director said.
All of the hospital authorities said that they have less capacity comparing with the flow of patients in recent days.
All of them asked the government to compel the people to follow health safety rules strictly with announcing hard lockdown to contain the alarming rise of the fatal virus.
