2 3rds of ICU beds occupied states told to ramp up infra as virus enters villages

  • | Tuesday | 11th May, 2021

Edit: Black fungus worrisomeThe central database shows there are in all 75667 ICU beds in the country—50408 in dedicated Covid hospitals and 25459 in dedicated Covid health centres. That translates to occupancy of 50186 ICU beds and 138573 oxygen-supported beds. The occupancy rate for ICU beds stands at 66.3 per cent (two-thirds) as of today while oxygen-supported bed occupancy rate is 54.3% exerting daily pressures on the system unless active cases reduce. Some early evidence indicated a possible association between emergence of variants with lower susceptibility to neutralising antibodies in immunosuppressed people given plasma therapy. “We hope you will look into this as a matter of urgency and get the ICMR and AIIMS guidelines rectified” the signatories said citing studies on convalescent plasma therapy with none showing any benefits.

Aditi Tandon Tribune News Service New Delhi May 10 Nearly two-thirds of Indias current Covid ICU bed capacity and more than half the available oxygen bed capacity has so far been utilised indicates government data on Monday with the Centre urging the states to fast-track the ramp up of hospital infrastructure as the disease burden of the second Covid wave grows. Edit: Black fungus worrisome The central database shows there are in all 75667 ICU beds in the country—50408 in dedicated Covid hospitals and 25459 in dedicated Covid health centres. The corresponding count for oxygen-supported beds is 154993 and 100175. In the latest meeting of the group of ministers held on Saturday experts informed the government that 1.34 per cent of the current active cases—3745237—were on ICU support and 1.34 per cent of the active patients were on oxygen support. That translates to occupancy of 50186 ICU beds and 138573 oxygen-supported beds. The occupancy rate for ICU beds stands at 66.3 per cent (two-thirds) as of today while oxygen-supported bed occupancy rate is 54.3% exerting daily pressures on the system unless active cases reduce. “Even as we ramp up critical care and hospital infrastructure to deal with active cases we have to work to reduce the cases too for which local restrictions in areas with high positivity rate are important to break the chain of transmission” AIIMS (New Delhi) Director Randeep Guleria said as the virus moved to tier 2 and 3 cities. Meanwhile the daily new cases today dropped to 366161 a much needed dip after four straight days of more than 4 lakh cases each. The daily fatalities were also down to 3754 after two days of more than 4000 deaths. 3.66 lakh fresh cases Total deaths246116 Active cases 3745237 3754 deaths in 24 hours Plasma use could trigger virulent variants: Experts New Delhi: Top Indian scientists and clinicians on Monday wrote to government Covid strategists demanding removal of convalescent plasma therapy from national Covid clinical protocols and warned against possibilities of plasma use triggering virulent Covid variants. “Research evidence indicates there is no benefit offered by convalescent plasma for treatment of Covid-19. However it continues to be prescribed rampantly in hospitals... Some early evidence indicated a possible association between emergence of variants with lower susceptibility to neutralising antibodies in immunosuppressed people given plasma therapy. This raises the possibility of more virulent strains developing due to irrational use of plasma therapy which can fuel the pandemic” clinicians said in a signed letter addressed to PMs principal scientific adviser K Vijay Raghavan ICMR chief Balram Bhargava and AIIMS-New Delhi Director Randeep Guleria. The signatories including top vaccinologist Gagandeep Kang Editor of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics Amar Jesani and public health researcher Shahid Jameel said they were willing to assist and appraise evidence critically to inform the policy change they were seeking. “We hope you will look into this as a matter of urgency and get the ICMR and AIIMS guidelines rectified” the signatories said citing studies on convalescent plasma therapy with none showing any benefits. — TNS Odisha reports first black fungus case Odisha has detected its first case of mucormycosis or black fungus in a 71-year-old Covid patient with a known history of uncontrolled diabetes officials said on Monday. The patient a resident of the Jajpur district was admitted to a leading private hospital in Bhubaneswar. PTI 34 serving retd faculty die in 18 days at amu After 34 deaths among teachers and retired colleagues the AMU V-C has written to the ICMR urging it to study if a particular variant is circulating around the campus. PTI Rs 8923 cr released for rural bodies in 25 states Rs205 cr for punjab The Centre has released Rs8923 crore to 25 states for providing grant to rural local bodies (RLBs). It may be used among other things to combat the pandemic. The grant released for 2021-22 includes Rs205 cr for Punjab Rs187 cr for Haryana Rs63 crore for HP and Rs85 crore for Uttarakhand.

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