Pune is the new COVID-19 hotspot; no ICU beds with ventilators, shortage of ambulances too

The growing number of COVID-19 cases in Pune the city has become a cause for concern. In fact, the city is becoming one of the main hotspots not only in Maharashtra, but also in India.

the death of a young man journalist due to ICU unavailability Beds and the ambulance has highlighted the harsh reality of the situation.

In fact, the city’s first COVID-19 jumbo facility opened at the College of Engineering a few weeks ago. But as the Pune Mirror reported on Tuesday, the facility does not have the necessary staff or adequate facilities to share the load. The facility, which is run by a private agency, also said it was only tasked with managing up to 25 percent of the 800-bed jumbo care facility this week. I was not ready to function 100 percent.

The government had also claimed that with the addition of the jumbo centers, the facilities in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad will help reduce the district’s fatality rate.

On Monday, with 1,931 new cases, Pune overtook Delhi to become the city with the highest number of people infected by the new coronavirus.

However, despite the lofty claims made by the government, Pandurang Raikar, a reporter for a Marathi news channel also failed to get a heart ambulance.

Speaking to the news channel, the sister of the deceased said that she lost her brother due to the lack of availability of the facilities.

“A center worth millions of rupees has been set up, but he was unable to get an ambulance.”

More surprisingly, the number of patients in the Pune district is gradually moving towards the 2 lakh mark, while also having the highest number of active cases.

Not even a single ICU ventilator bed was available to corona patients all day in private hospitals on Tuesday. The dashboard also showed that all hospital beds were occupied.

However, on Wednesday, the availability of 35 ICU beds with ventilators was displayed on the dashboard.

“For the past five and a half months, Pandurang Raikar had been reporting on Corona’s situation in Pune. However, he contracted COVID. We all tried to make him an available bed at Dinanath Mangeshkar Hospital. However, the bed was available, there was no A cardiac ambulance available. I admit that these errors in the system took Pandurang Raikar from us. ”

Health Minister Rajesh Tope has also said that it is unfortunate that someone had to lose their life due to lack of beds or ambulances.

He also said there are policies in place to prevent such unfortunate incidents from occurring and has asked collectors to hire ambulances and provide free service to patients in need.

Deputy CM Ajit Pawar also ordered an investigation.