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KOLKATA: Experts involved in Covid management opined that such patients must be stepped-down and shifted to general beds from critical care as soon as their health condition improves. The influx of critical patients has also gone up in the past few weeks as the infection rate multiplied than what it had been during the end of last year. "Many elderly patients who were at home treatment are being shifted to hospitals after their health condition turns serious. As a result, more critical patients have to wait for being accommodated in the critical care unit. If the patients are not stepped-down from the ICU on time after their health condition improves, it would affect the treatment of others as there is mounting pressure on critical beds in the hospitals..