Private hospitals want beds again, plan to write to government

With a decline in new COVID-19 circumstances within the metropolis and the frenzy to hospitals lowering, non-public hospitals want the beds that they had ceded to the government through the peak of the second wave launched in order that they’ll deal with different sufferers. The Private Hospitals and Nursing Homes’ Association (PHANA) has determined to write to the Department of Health and Family Welfare for the discharge of the 50% government quota beds reserved for COVID-19 sufferers.

H.M. Prasanna, president, PHANA, informed The Puucho that after assessing the COVID-19 scenario subsequent week, they are going to take up the matter with the government.

“If these beds are occupied, we get reimbursed from the government, if they remain vacant, we suffer a loss,” he mentioned.

The demand for common beds and High Dependency Unit (HDU) beds in hospitals has been on the decline over the previous fortnight. However, the demand for ICU beds and ICU beds with ventilators continues to stay excessive. As of Saturday night, of the 16,532 beds obtainable in public hospitals, government quota in non-public hospitals and COVID-19 care centres, 12,014 beds are vacant.

Last week, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) too acknowledged the rise in vacant beds.

Civic officers mentioned they’d seek the advice of the Department of Health and Family Welfare and determine what to do with the vacant beds.