Huge influx of patients from MP, Rajasthan into Vadodara hospitals

Vadodara: When three members of a family from Rajgadh in Madhya Pradesh (MP)took ill and had symptoms similar to Covid-19, they rushed to Vadodara for treatment. This is not an isolated case, but there are many like them from as well as across the state. Around 2,000 patients from outside, mostly serious, have reach Vadodara hospitals.
An analysis by officials in wake of the surge in hospitalisation in the city revealed that there were patients in the city from 26 districts of the state and six states. Amongst states other than Gujarat, most patients came from MP, Rajasthan and Maharashtra.
“Have you seen queues of ambulances outside any hospital in the city? Such visuals came from all other big cities, but the doctors and hospitals in the city including both government and private doctors worked overtime as a team and coordinated well to ensure that we planned in advance to ensure we had sufficient beds. Many from MP and other places relied on Vadodara for even non-Covid treatment and they are rushing here on having Covid too,” said president of Setu, the association of private healthcare facilities in Vadodara, Dr Krutesh Shah.
Sources said that the steady trickle of patients to Vadodara was also due to the non-availability of beds in other cities.
Official data on Saturday evening revealed that there were 13,544 beds in Vadodara city and district including 5,817 oxygen beds and 2,463 ICU beds, 1,100 ventilator beds.