UP: Health system overrun, many fail to get beds

A scarcity of hospital beds continued in Lucknow on Wednesday because the Covid-19 second wave inundated well being providers and sufferers struggled to get right of entry to medical amenities. A listing of 96 non-public hospitals treating Covid sufferers, supplied by the Lucknow district administration, was of no use as most of the numbers talked about in it have been discovered to be switched off or unreachable. Others didn’t obtain calls
In the few cases when calls went by means of, officers stated a referral was required from the Central Command Centre for COVID or from the CMO.
Undermining the federal government’s claims that referrals weren’t required, a number of folks in Lucknow informed The Indian Express that medical amenities had informed them that sufferers will be admitted solely after a referral.

Despite repeated makes an attempt, CMO Sanjay Bhatnagar and appearing DM Roshan Jacob weren’t obtainable for remark.