Pune: PMC To Conduct Covid-19 Patients Audit; Know Why There Is Shortage Of Beds
Pune, 28 April 2021: Although the graph in the city of Covid-19 patients has been flattened, there have been incidences where it was noticed that many patients out of fear refuse to vacant the bed despite them being Covid-19 free.
This led to a shortage of beds for the patients and the dashboard continues to show the “full”, status for beds in the various city hospitals.
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Taking cognizance of it, Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has decided to conduct the audit of the patients. Such patients will be identified, they will be counselled to vacant the bed. This experiment is being implemented by PMC along with a few private hospitals.
Health department conducts a study
The health department conducted a study that included who really needs hospital admission, oxygen bed, ventilators. It was seen that few of the patients get themselves admitted out of sheer fear that they might not get the bed. Few fear that if they stay home quarantined, they might develop pneumonia and that might force them to run for an oxygen bed or Remdesivir injection.
This leads to a shortage of beds resulting in serious patients not getting the medical treatment on time.
Additional municipal commissioner Rubal Agarwal said, “We will conduct the audit of the patients in which the number of days, the health, line of treatment of the patient will be checked. We anticipate that we can vacant 100 to 125 beds daily from various hospitals.”
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