Hospital admissions fall in Vadodara after 15 days

Vadodara: For the first time in a fortnight, the hospitalization due to Covid-19 in Vadodara city and district came down to four digits. On Monday evening, the total number of hospitalized patients in the city and district stood at 9,850.
While several questions have been raised regarding the data of positive cases and deaths disclosed by the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC), transparency has prevailed when it comes to the details of hospitalization. The civic body in its dashboard clearly mentions the total number of Covid-19 beds, occupied beds and vacant beds. This is further divided into categories of ventilator beds, ICU beds without ventilator, oxygen support beds and mild symptom beds.
Sources said that on April 24, around 9,900 beds were occupied in the city. This went beyond 10,000 later and never reached four digits again. A major relief was felt when the number went to 9,999 on Sunday night but bounced back to above 10,000 later. On Monday, however, the number remained consistently below 10,000.
“Since the last five to six days, it seems that we are on the downward slope but we would like to wait for two to three days more for a significant decline of around 25% from the peak. We would like to see the hospitalization down to around 8,000,” said the officer on special duty for Covid-19 Vinod Rao.
Officials said that those at the helm of Covid-19 management were more concerned about oxygen availability. “Even if the occupancy is lower and oxygen is diverted elsewhere cutting our supplies, we may remain in a tight spot.
This has happened even when we had high requirements. Ideally, the city and district would be comfortable if the oxygen requirement is reduced to less than half of what it is today,” said the source.