No beds at district hospital, patients get treatment on stretchers

Gorakhpur: The 305-bed Gorakhpur district hospital, after its bed occupancy became full, has started accommodating emergency patients on stretchers. The hospital has used 8 stretchers for providing treatment to serious patients.
The hospital caters to both Covid and non-Covid patients.
Earlier, the hospital was treating only non-Covid patients. But after the BRD Medical College, TB hospital, LNM Railway hospital, the district hospital also started Covid facility. At present there are six Covid patients and 92 with Covid like symptoms under treatment.
Other wards of the hospital, including burn ward, coronary care department, encephalitis treatment centre, paediatric ICU and tetanus are already full. The situation has become difficult as most of the nursing homes in the city are not admitting non-covid patients due to which the district hospital is facing the challenge of heavy load of patients.
“The hospital has no bed and the patients are being given treatment on stretchers. We are facing heavy load of patients and all the employees are working hard. Physicians are working on 12 hours shift. Some important wards can’t be closed and the hospital is facing challenge in providing treatment to non-Covid patients,” SIC, district hospital, Dr AC Srivastav said.