Mumbai: With a covid bed 85% lying empty in the city and reverse acceptance, most hospitals have continued routine procedures for the past few weeks.
Many, in fact, face greater demand for non-covid beds.
As on Friday, 19,411 from Mumbai’s 23,270 covid beds serve.
More than 18,300 of them were in Jumbos, private and public hospitals; The rest in the Covid treatment center is intended for cases that are not critical.
About 85% of the bed isolation and 55% of ICU beds are not inhabited.
Nearly 47% of beds with ventilator support are also empty.
Kem Parel Hospital, which mostly recognizes critical patients, no longer has Covid death every day.
Acceptance, also every 2-3 days.
Dean Dr.
Hemant Deshmukh said the 60% of routine work had continued.
“We currently have 500 non-covid patients,” he said.
Ward 6, the only Covid Kem ward with 35 beds, has 16 patients on Friday.
Deshmukh said they could add a covid bed if the number increased.
In April, when the city recorded an average of 9,000 cases every day, the Covid Country task force had suggested hospitals to stop routine operations to save oxygen for covid patients.
Dr.
Mohan Joshi, Dean of Sion Hospital, said the situation began to improve about one and a half months ago.
“Our daily acceptance goes down to 10 now.
We have reduced Covid beds to accommodate more non-covid patients,” Dr.
Joshi said.
Authority KEM and Sion said they did 300-350 large and small operations every day now.
BMC to free Civic Med College for the non-covid opseach unit from the Gynecology Department of Sion Hospital, one of the busiest wings, has a list of waiting at least a dozen patients.
The head of the Dr.
Arun Department said they had started operating scheduling.
“People have postponed hysterectomy, delaying surgery for removing their tumors, which we want to take priority,” he said.
Private hospitals, though, have not been allowed to shrink their Covid capacity.
Dr.
V Ravishankar, Coo Hospital Lilavati, said 240 non-covid beds and full ICU bed while 140 covid beds had great vacancies.
“Covid Ward is only 35% full, while the ICU has around 70% of residence.
We have several patients from Kalyan, Dombivli, Panvel who underwent treatment in the ICU,” he said.
He added that the heart procedure has increased in a great way.
At Bhatia Hospital in Tardeo, CEO Dr.
Rajeev Boudhankar said elective operations began this month.
“Patients who come for surgery have increased to 10 per day,” he said, adding operations in orthopedics, gynecology and general procedures.
Supplementary City Commissioner Suresh Kakani said the Civil Medical College would be given a minimum Covid job now to free them for non-covid procedures affected by the second wave.
This April, the city has an increase of 112% in death because all causes compared to the average for the same month in the previous four years.
Experts believe one reason can lack access to covid care.