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In Lucknow, a desperate search for a hospital bed
Inadequate facilities have left patients and kin with few options amid surging cases
COVID-19 patients in Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh continued to struggle to find beds in hospitals while the mounting cases of the disease forced the State government on Friday to declare a weekly shutdown in both rural and urban areas on Sundays.
The State recorded 27,426 new cases and 103 deaths in the last 24 hours, with 6,958 cases and 35 deaths in Lucknow alone, as per health department figures.
Among those bereaved is physiotherapist Ashish Srivastava, who said he had driven around city hospitals with his 73-year-old father desperate to find a bed but none would take him in, either demanding a COVID-19 report first or citing lack of beds.
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https://www.thehindu.com/news/natio...search-for-a-hospital-bed/article34339644.ece
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Crematoriums, graveyards spill over, beds falling short in Lucknow
The district has reported more than 5,000 daily new cases over the past several days; the active caseload crossed 40,000 on Friday.
A thick pall of smoke from rows of burning pyres hanging over groups of grieving relatives, a line of hearses, and piles of cremation wood by the roadside ? this was Bhainsakund crematorium in Lucknow district on Friday.
The district has reported more than 5,000 daily new cases over the past several days; the active caseload crossed 40,000 on Friday.
There have been complaints about the unavailability of oxygen and hospital beds, black marketing of drugs like remdesivir and fabiflu, and about private labs refusing RT-PCR tests.
more....
https://indianexpress.com/article/c...l-over-beds-falling-short-in-lucknow-7277117/
Inadequate facilities have left patients and kin with few options amid surging cases
COVID-19 patients in Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh continued to struggle to find beds in hospitals while the mounting cases of the disease forced the State government on Friday to declare a weekly shutdown in both rural and urban areas on Sundays.
The State recorded 27,426 new cases and 103 deaths in the last 24 hours, with 6,958 cases and 35 deaths in Lucknow alone, as per health department figures.
Among those bereaved is physiotherapist Ashish Srivastava, who said he had driven around city hospitals with his 73-year-old father desperate to find a bed but none would take him in, either demanding a COVID-19 report first or citing lack of beds.
more...
https://www.thehindu.com/news/natio...search-for-a-hospital-bed/article34339644.ece
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Crematoriums, graveyards spill over, beds falling short in Lucknow
The district has reported more than 5,000 daily new cases over the past several days; the active caseload crossed 40,000 on Friday.
A thick pall of smoke from rows of burning pyres hanging over groups of grieving relatives, a line of hearses, and piles of cremation wood by the roadside ? this was Bhainsakund crematorium in Lucknow district on Friday.
The district has reported more than 5,000 daily new cases over the past several days; the active caseload crossed 40,000 on Friday.
There have been complaints about the unavailability of oxygen and hospital beds, black marketing of drugs like remdesivir and fabiflu, and about private labs refusing RT-PCR tests.
more....
https://indianexpress.com/article/c...l-over-beds-falling-short-in-lucknow-7277117/