Ranchi: The
live dashboard launched by the Ranchi district administration to provide information on the
availability of Covid-19
beds at the city-based hospitals failed to ease out the woes of patients with the date available online not matching with the on ground situation.
While the dashboard, available at the district’s website ranchi.nic.in, was launched to help out patients, in reality, hospitals continue to deny admissions without references. Meanwhile, most of the times, the incident commanders either do not pick up calls or their phone remain switched off, exposing how the lack of proper implementation of government orders is causing chaos in the city.
After Rinchi Trust Hospital didn’t answer calls from TOI, Santosh Kumar Shukla, incident commander attached with the hospital, said, “I have personally visited the hospital twice since morning and there are no beds. In fact, currently more than 10 patients are waiting to get admitted.”
Ranchi district, the worst hit amid the second wave of Covid-19, on Wednesday recorded 1,273 fresh cases of the virus, pushing the active caseload to 7,641, and seven casualties.
Contacted about the anomalies, district information officer of the National Informatics Centre (NIC), Ranchi, Shio Banerjee said, “I cannot comment on why the hospitals are saying that they do not have beds because we are only putting out numbers which are being provided to us by our data cell which is looking after the availability of beds.”
However on being asked whether the website is reflecting the data on a real-time basis, Banerjee said currently it is not on a real-time basis, but they are working to make changes.
TOI on Thursday contacted more than 10 hospitals which showed availability of beds on the portal, however, the authorities cited various reasons, ranging from running in full capacity to lack of manpower and denied to admit any new patient.
Hospitals, including Jaslok, Maa Kalawati, Rinchi, Kanke General Hospital, Medanta, RPS and Gulmohar were showing availability of beds on the portal. However, when contacted, all of them denied having any Covid bed.
An authority of MDM hospital near Booty More said, “We haven’t started treating Covid patients as we are in the process of completing the oxygen pipeline work in our wards. I do not know how the portal is showing we have oxygen-supported beds.”
Meanwhile, a representative of Maa Kalawati Hospital in Namkum said, “We have beds but our doctors and other paramedics have deserted the hospital.”
Rani Hospital on Booty Road was the only hospital which provided the correct information. A representative said, “We have all kinds of beds available, but all our equipment are for children and we can treat only paediatric patients.”