In lack of beds, the hospital is forced to treat patients under oxygen support in hallways of the hospital.
DHANGADHI, APRIL 30
With the sharp increase of Covid-19 infection amid the second wave of coronavirus, hospitals in Sudur Paschim Province are being filled to the brim of late.
The referral hospital of the province, Seti Provincial Hospital, is now swamped with an influx of Covid-19 patients. All the beds in the emergency ward of the hospital are filled with the infected and those showing symptoms of the disease, increasing the risk of further spread of the contagion.
In lack of beds, the hospital is forced to treat patients under oxygen support in hallways of the hospital.
The Covid-19 Temporary Hospital under Seti Hospital that was established last year already lacks beds. 57 patients are being treated in the 55-bed capacity Covid hospital with three patients in ventilator, nine in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and 35 patients in oxygen support. Among them, 10 are in moderate condition, informed Dilip Kumar Shrestha, Information Officer at the Hospital.
Locals claim that mismanagement of authorities in the border points as migrant workers return home from India, and consequent operation of isolation and quarantine facilities has increased the number of infections in the province.
Until Thursday evening, all 16 beds in emergency wards were filled while patients were receiving treatment in the hallways on the beds that they themselves had brought in, informed the hospital.
"The situation has reached a critical stage," claimed Bharat Khati, in charge of the emergency ward of the hospital. Patients coming to the hospital with respiratory illness have increased exponentially in recent days, Khati added.
Sudur Paschim Province is witnessing a large number of infection and deaths with the advent of the second wave of more virulent Covid-19 with 13 Covid-19 fatalities reported on Thursday alone.
