Lucknow: Dip in Covid cases springs hope but it’s still dark tunnel for patients

  • | Friday | 7th May, 2021

LUCKNOW: Even though the daily Covid-19 infections dropped on Thursday, the people’s problems continued as many had to struggle for basic things from oxygen refill to a critical care bed, testing and lifesaving drugs. Also, despite instructions from senior district administration officers, the chief medical officer’s office was not able to make several dedicated Covid hospitals create their accounts on the online dashboard — Integrated Covid command centre - Hospital-Wise Bed Availability (https://beds.dgmhup-covid19.in/EN/covid19bedtrack) — meant for the people to track the availability of beds. Of the 72 covid facilities, 66 had uploaded their bed status by 10pm on Thursday.

LUCKNOW: Even though the daily Covid-19 infections dropped on Thursday, the people’s problems continued as many had to struggle for basic things from oxygen refill to a critical care bed, testing and lifesaving drugs. Also, despite instructions from senior district administration officers, the chief medical officer’s office was not able to make several dedicated Covid hospitals create their accounts on the online dashboard — Integrated Covid command centre - Hospital-Wise Bed Availability (https://beds.dgmhup-covid19.in/EN/covid19bedtrack) — meant for the people to track the availability of beds. Of the 72 covid facilities, 66 had uploaded their bed status by 10pm on Thursday.

Akhilesh Bansal, a businessman from Daliganj, desperately searched for an oxygen supported bed for his 55-year-old sister-in-law.
“I called five private hospitals between 1-3 pm and all said that they had no beds though the dashboard stated that they had some. Finally, I got a bed allotted through Integrated Covid Command Centre on the intervention of a senior district administrative officer,” he said. Special officer in-charge Covid relief in Lucknow, Roshan Jacob, found that laxity in the functioning of Rapid Response Teams (RRT). The Covid centre called 242 home quarantined patients to inquire about their well-being of whom 42 said that neither any RRT contacted them, nor they were given any medicines. She directed officers to issue show-cause notices to medical officers in-charge under whom these RRTs were working.

Long queues were also seen outside most oxygen refilling stations since early morning. “I have been standing here for six hours without food and water, but the station staff is saying that distribution to individuals will start only after supply to the hospital is over,” said Samarth Sen, a private executive, who wanted the refill for his critical ill friend. “Since all the other family members of the friend are also down with mild Covid-19 symptoms, they are not in a condition to stand in line, hence I volunteered to bail them out,” he said.


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