Filled past capability, VIMSAR COVID Hospital compelled to return sufferers

By Express News Service
SAMBALPUR: As coronavirus circumstances hold flooding the Covid Hospital at Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (VIMSAR), the authorities are left with no possibility however to ship again ambulances bringing in additional contaminated individuals. As it’s, the district is dealing with scarcity of beds and manpower in its hospitals.

The hospital began functioning with 120 beds, together with 100 basic and 20 in ICU, step by step rising it to 225 (175 basic and 50 ICU) final month given the grim Covid state of affairs and resultant improve in variety of sufferers.

Still, due to dearth of beds and insufficient manpower, many sufferers couldn’t be admitted to the hospital and had been despatched again. The hospital caters to sufferers from different districts of Western Odisha in addition to Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand. 

Though the federal government has determined to arrange a brand new Covid Hospital with 300 beds together with 50 ICU beds at VIMSAR, it’s but to be purposeful.

“Frequent admissions is keeping beds occupied all the time. Although work on the new hospital is underway and will take around two weeks to be completed, one of the floors with 80 general and 6 ICU beds has been made functional to manage the inflow of patients,” mentioned Director of VIMSAR, Dr Lalit Meher.

Official sources mentioned round 250 sufferers had been admitted to the hospital on Friday towards the capability of 225.