Heart-wrenching incidents from Maharashtra as state battles shortage of beds amid 2nd Covid wave
With a sudden inflow of patients, all healthcare facilities were overwhelmed and all the hospitals in Chandrapur were closed for 24 hours.
New Delhi: Maharashtra is the most-suffering state in this dangerous second wave of COVID-19, but now the state is facing a new problem as there is allegedly a shortage of beds for Covid patients in the state. One such case was found in Chandrapur district, where a man claims that his father is Covid positive and he is wandering around the state to get a bed for him.
Sagar Kishor Naharshetivar, a resident of Warora in Chandrapur said that he has been wandering around the state to get a bed but allegedly there is no bed available.
With a sudden inflow of patients, all healthcare facilities were overwhelmed and all the hospitals in Chandrapur were closed for 24 hours. Chandrapur is 850 kms away from Mumbai. Throughout the day, there were ambulances parked outside the local hospital with elderly people lying in them.
महाराष्ट्र : चंद्रपुर में कोरोना हुआ आउट ऑफ कंट्रोल, एम्बुलेंस लेकर भटक रहे परिजन, फिर भी नहीं मिला अस्पताल में बेड, परेशान बेटे ने अंत में जताई बाप की मृत्यु की इच्छा#Maharashtra @CMOMaharashtra @PMOIndia @MoHFW_INDIA @OfficeofUT #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/nzgdV7oQz0
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Sagar Kishor was standing near one such ambulance, in the video he says, “I have been on the move since 3 pm yesterday. First I went to the Warora hospital, then the one in Chandrapur. Then we went to private hospitals as there were no beds.”
They allegedly left for Telangana at 1:30 AM in night, he said, “We reached Telangana around 3 am. But there were no beds there either. Then we came back in the morning. We have been waiting here since,” while pointing to the ambulance with its rudimentary facilities.
He claimed that his father’s oxygen is running out after wandering for so many hours, so, he pleaded for his father’s death. He said. “Either you make a bed available for him, or you kill him with an injection. I cannot take him home like this and you have no beds available.”
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#Maharashtra -Satara – A woman was seen hooked on an oxygen cylinder in an auto rickshaw parked outside the hospital that denied a bed (no beds available) to her due to the rising number of #COVID19 patients.@CMOMaharashtra @PMOIndia @MoHFW_INDIA @OfficeofUT pic.twitter.com/D2Jyjki0FD
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Maha CM seeks more oxygen stock from Centre
Maharashtra, which has been grappling with the worst of the outbreak, is suffering from a shortage of beds, ventilators, oxygen and medication for hundreds of desperately ill patients.
CM Uddhav Thackeray has already requested PM for army’s help to provide oxygen and medicine. “We are using (oxygen stocks) to the hilt. I told PM (Prime Minister Narendra Modi), looking at the condition, that in the coming days we will need oxygen,” he said.
Maharashtra has reported 58,952 new cases and 278 COVID-19 deaths in the last 24-hours.