Bengaluru: Covid-19 hospital bed residence in Karnataka jumped from 3% on Monday to 5.5 on Tuesday, the day when more than 41,000 cases were cut throughout the state.
While 2,548 hospital beds were occupied on Monday, on Tuesday, the number rose to 4,795, the data shown by the State Welfare Department and family welfare.
Holiday bed housing on Tuesday included 3,451 patients in public beds, 935 in high dependency units with oxygen, 297 in ICU and 112 on the ventilator bed.
Bengaluru contributed a large number of hospital admissions; BBMP data showed 628 patients at the hospital.
Of the total 1.
9 lakh hospitals in the state, 50% or nearly 90,000 have been intended for covid patients.
Apart from the increase in astronomy in the case, not everyone who contracts this disease is very sick so they need to be accepted, say authority.
D Randeep, Department of Welfare of Commissioners, Health and Family, said so far in the third wave, the average lived talisan HOSPI was 2-3 days because of opposing 8-10 days in the second wave.
“The silver layer is that this virus affects the upper and non-lung respiratory system.
Also, most adults are vaccinated.
These factors have made a difference,” he said.
Randeep said there were more walk-in patients; Nearly 500-800 visited the hospital ran out of panic and they were stabilized and sent home on the same day.
In the second wave, Bengaluru has 1.
5 active cases of lakh and is very contrasting to the current situation.
“Around this time during the second wave, we have no bed for painful patients.
Even patients who need ICU care are in public beds and we have a minimum of 20 deaths a day,” the Top Hospital Authority said.
Dr.
CN Manjunath, a member of the Covid Technical Experts Committee (TAC) and the clinical expert committee said the second wave was oximetric, while the third wave was more thermetrically.
During the second wave, many suffer from shortness of breath when infections spread to the lungs; Oximeter reading is key.
However, in the third wave, most of the patients only fever, he said.
Dr.
Manjunath, also the Director of Sri Jayadeva Institute of Sciences and Research Cardiovascular, said there were more than 20 heart patients with Covid admitted in his hospital and they all recovered well.
“However, this should make anyone complacent about Covid,” he said.
Dr.
MK Sudarshan, Chair, TAC, said the infection was lightly in most cases.
“There is no request for a hospital bed or covid treatment center.
More than 93% of patients are in house isolation,” Dr.
Sudarshan said.