Reza Mahmud :
Cases and deaths from Covid-19 decreased in the country, but the health authorities’ data showed that there were no ICU beds were vacant in seven out of 13 covid dedicated hospitals in the capital on Sunday.
Directorate General of Health Services data showed on Sunday that seven out of 13 of its covid dedicated hospitals’ ICU beds were completely occupied.
According to the data, 30 ICU beds out of 382 of those hospitals were vacant till Sunday afternoon.
The DGHS data says that 1809 general beds were vacant out of 4272 in the 17 covid-19 dedicated hospitals in the capital.
Meanwhile, officials of those hospitals said the vacant ICU and general beds used to do not remain empty for hours.
They said all types of the empty beds might be occupied within short time usually. When contacted, Dr. Asim Kumar Nath, Director of Mugda Medical College Hospital, told The New Nation that there were no chance of keeping any bed especially ICU beds free for even a moment.
“When an ICU bed is vacant, it will be filled within moment as the pressures from patients are high now,” the Director said.
There are 17 covid dedicated hospitals in the city, four of them have no ICU beds yet.
According to the DGHS data, 10 ICU beds of Kurmitola General Hospital, 20 ICU beds of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (Unit 2), six beds of Government Employee Hospital, 25 beds of Mugda Medical College and Hospital, 10 beds of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital, eight beds of National
Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases and 20 beds of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University hospital are fully occupied by serious covid patients.
Besides, the largest field hospital of DNCC Dedicated Covid-19 Hospital’s 193 ICU beds out of 212 had been occupied as per the data.
The DGHS data showed that the deaths from the fatal disease have been were below 200 and infections found below 10 thousands for last several days.
Public health experts and DGHS officials said that the delta variant is more contagious and its fatality rate is also high. They said, this variant make the patients’ more sick than those of the other variant of the coronavirus.
When contacted, eminent Virologist Professor Dr. Nazrul Islam, former Vice-Chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University told The New Nation, “People have to be fully vaccinated and to follow the health safety rule strictly to be safe from the deadly virus.”
He asked everyone to keep social distancing in outside cautiously and wear facemask adequately.
