Covid-19 | Control room denies availability of beds in Pune
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After the counsel for Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) assured the Bombay High Court on Wednesday that ICU and ventilator beds can be found, the management room has denied it.
A Division Bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice G.S. Kulkarni was listening to a bunch of petitions on scarcity of beds, oxygen, Remdesivir, crematoriums and others.
The counsel for PMC instructed the court docket that Pune has executed most testing in Maharashtra and the restoration fee of sufferers in Pune was 90%. He mentioned, “We are independent about the generation of oxygen and by June end, all municipal hospitals will be self-reliant when it comes to oxygen. There are currently five ICU beds and ventilator beds vacant.”
One of the advocates interrupted him and mentioned there have been no beds accessible in Pune, particularly ICU and ventilator beds. The court docket directed that he name the helpline and put the cellphone on loudspeaker. The management room then mentioned no beds had been accessible. To this, the counsel mentioned officers are usually not docs and particulars of the affected person need to be given to retrieve data.
The court docket was then knowledgeable that the dashboard by PMC isn’t actually offering actual time updates on beds. The court docket directs the company and the Association of Doctors to file an affidavit on the identical.
Chief Justice Datta, upon perusal of the observe submitted by Maharashtra counsel Akshay Shinde, mentioned there was a scarcity of Remdesivir. There is a requirement for 70,000 vials each day, however merely 45,000 vials are obtained, he remarked, and requested how the State arrived at this determine for Remdesivir. He additionally mentioned there was an absence of coordination someplace. The demand for Remdesivir was 50,000 earlier however is now 70,000. How can that be if the quantity of instances is decreasing, he requested.
Another advocate in the the matter mentioned there have been a gaggle of individuals, politicians and celebrities distributing Remdesivir to sufferers arbitrarily. He added that hospitals in Mumbai have put a discover on the gate saying they don’t have Remdesivir, and the sufferers have to obtain it from exterior.
The court docket requested Mr. Shinde to file an affidavit on the allocation of Remdesivir. On crematoriums, the State filed an affidavit stating there have been 2,700 present crematoriums and burial grounds, 87 gasoline crematoriums and 34 electrical crematoriums. Along with this, there are 346 proposed crematoriums. Senior advocate Anil Sakhare representing Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation mentioned in Mumbai there have been 80,000 cremations a 12 months and there are 72 crematoriums.
The listening to will proceed on May 13.
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