BHUBANESWAR: While all major hospitals in
western Odisha which has been witnessing surge in Covid infections are already overwhelmed, most private hospitals in Bhubaneswar too are capacity full, authorities said.
VSS Institute of Medical Sciences and Hospital, (VIMSAR) Sambalpur currently runs a 225-bed Covid facility. “All the 225 beds including the 50 bed ICU are fully occupied. We can admit patients only when some patients are discharged,” said VIMSAR principal Lalit Meher. Meher said another 300 beds are in the process of commissioning.
The VIMSAR covid facility is set up on a nine-storey building. With one of the two elevators defunct for past two weeks, the patients and hospital staff have a harrowing time waiting for their queues to board the single lift, a doctor said. VIMSAR being a referral hospital, it gets patients from many western
Odisha district.
All three Covid hospitals in worst hit Sundargarh district, which has been leading in daily infections and has currently the highest 5055 active cases among the 30 districts, are full. The 200-bed
JP Hospital, 120-bed Shanti Hospital and 200-bed HiTech Hospital, being run in public private partnership, are full, chief district medical and public health officer Saroj Mishra said. “The ICUs too are almost full,” he said. The three hospitals have 160 ICU beds.
In Nuapada, the 160-bed Covid hospital has been running almost full for past around a week, its nodal officer
Sudhir Nayak said.
Nayak said the hospital has reported deaths of 25 Covid positive persons since April 8 due to various reasons, the causes of which are being audited by a committee.
In Bhubaneswar, private hospitals—AMRI,
Apollo and Care Hospitals—are capacity full. While all the 75 beds of
AMRI are occupied, Apollo’s 30 beds and Care’s 40 beds meant for covid and the ICUs have no vacancies, spokespersons of the hospitals said. A senior administrator of a private hospital said many people with mild symptoms, who have insurance cover, had got admitted fearing they may not get hospital beds at a later stage.