No breather here, Government Chest Hospital has no ventilators!

Sources within the clinic are expecting that a huge variety of seriously-ill sufferers will get admitted to the chest clinic in the coming weeks when the dire want for ventilators might be felt again. The wide variety of out-sufferers has risen from a median of 250 in summer season to four hundred in the monsoon. On Monday, 500 sufferers visited the OP unit. Senior pulmonologists stated that 10 to 20 in keeping with cent of flu sufferers broaden breathing failure. While a Respiratory Intensive Care Unit (RICU) changed into set up round 4 months in the past, ventilators had been now not provided. The new unit has no longer been inaugurated until now. In case they expand breathing failure, the health facility does not have the resource required to store them. IRONY: Ironically, instead of patients being referred from other government hospitals to the chest medical institution which specialises in pulmonology, patients are referred from the chest sanatorium to Osmania General Hospital or Gandhi Hospital to provide them ventilator assist. In per week, as a minimum four patients are referred to these hospitals. The chest sanatorium has 305 beds and eighty one consistent with cent of the beds have been occupied on Tuesday. "We built the RICU the usage of the hospital's finances. In December-2017, I wrote to director of medical schooling Dr K Ramesh Reddy inquiring for for mechanical ventilators, special beds for sufferers and monitors, and it was accepted. It is the Telangana State Medical Services and Infrastructure Development Corporation (TSMIDC) which has to deliver the assets," said Dr Mahaboob Khan, superintendent of the chest hospital. According to him, the hospital's on the spot requirement is ventilators as it gets huge wide variety of sufferers tormented by COPD, asthma and different troubles related to respiration. Dr Ramesh Reddy stated that they have been following up with TSMIDC officers who have assured to provide the ventilators to the chest hospitals. Dailyhunt https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/zeeraveeraz

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