Haveri: While Chamarajanagar Regency gathered all the attention of Covid-19 death problems due to lack of medical oxygen during the peak of the deadly second wave, the death audit report delivered by the Expert Committee showed more deaths because the Haveri District lack of liquid medical oxygen.
The district, one of the most retired in the state, has the highest death rate and the committee shows that most deaths are due to poor health infrastructure, including lack of oxygen facilities.
The Haveri district has a 2.9% death rate, the highest in the state.
So far, while 22,152 has contracted infection since broken pandemics, 641 has given up on the virus.
In the second wave, the district recorded around 12,000 cases and around 450 patients died.
To find out the reason for death, Dr.
KV Trilok Chandra, the Department of Commissioners, Health and Welfare Welfare, has established an expert team to conduct an audit of death.
The team consisting of Dr.
Basavaraj Kallapur and Dr.
Ishwar Hasbi of the Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), Hubballi, and Dr.
Sampes Singh Rangawale, National Quality Assurance Standards Nodal Officers, Division of the Besavi, examined hospitals and conducted detailed investigations.
The team handed over its report to the government recently.
For the high reason the number of deaths, the report said the district administration “failed to overcome the oxygen problem during the second wave”.
It was said that all district hospitals and taluk faced liquid oxygen shortages in May, when the second wave went berserk.
The oxygen flow in the ventilator is “not at the expected level”.
“Oxygen audits have not been carried out by the Department of Health or District Administration,” the report stated.
Pointing on the report, Dr.
Sanjay Dange, spokesman, Haveri District Congress, said: “The government must begin disciplinary action on district administrative officials who fail to do their duties well.”