Critical sufferers cry in agony as Cuttack hospitals reel underneath ICU mattress scarcity

By Express News Service
CUTTACK: With the unprecedented surge in Covid instances, Cuttack, the healthcare capital of the State, has begun to crumble underneath the strain of ever-rising sufferers. The metropolis which boasts of the most important variety of healthcare services within the State, together with the SCB Medical College and Hospital, has run out of ICU beds, leaving important sufferers to their destiny.

Covid hospitals in Cuttack have 375 ICUs. While the best 135 ICU beds are at SCB Covid Hospital, there are 50 at Aswini Covid Hospital, 30 in Sadguru Covid Hospital, 50 in Srusti Covid Hospital, 35 in South Point Covid Hospital, 20 in Unique Covid Hospital, 35 in Rudra Covid Hospital and 20 in Om Suvam Covid Hospital. However, virtually all of the beds are occupied. 

“More than 150 critical Covid patients are waiting to get ICU beds at SCB MCH,” mentioned a physician on situation of anonymity. As a number of sufferers are being referred to the hospitals in important situation, each from dwelling and hospitals in different districts, it isn’t attainable to offer them ICU beds and ventilators, he added. 

The RDC-cum-Cuttack district Covid observer Anil Kumar Samal on Monday reviewed the progress of development of an extra 100-bed Covid hospital at SCB Medical College and Hospital.  He additionally took inventory of oxygen provide and administration of useless our bodies at SCB in a gathering with CMC Commissioner Ananya Das, Hospital superintendent Prof Lucy Das, Dean and Principal Datteswar Hota. 

Expressing dissatisfaction over delay in making the 100-bed Covid hospital operational, Samal instructed officers to make the brand new Covid facility with 41 ICUs, 20 HDUs and 40 beds with oxygen assist inside seven days. 

He directed the officers to shift useless our bodies inside half-hour from the ward to the morgue. The CMC will depute a particular officer and deploy two extra hearse vans for transporting our bodies from the hospital to crematoriums. “Stringent action will be initiated if lapses are noticed in shifting of the bodies,” warned Samal.