Kolkata: A product from the state health department for government hospitals, asking them to get their infrastructure ready for a surge in reception Covid has caused private hospitals to review their occupancy status as well.
While most are ready to extend their Covid ward, patient turnover, they show, has been high as far as reducing the average duration of the stay.
This has helped a lot to keep the patient without expanding their Covid unit.
Belle Vue Clinic, for example, has 47 Covid beds now, where 35 is occupied.
The occupancy rate has not risen even though the receipt has often been.
“Thank you for a mild infection and cocktail drugs that are being widely used, Covid patients recover faster and the duration of the stay has dropped, unlike the first two waves when it will be at least two weeks.
Most non-critical patients will now go home in a week.
It used to be around two weeks for non-critical care patients during the second wave, “said CEO P Tondon.
He added that hospitals will increase covid patients if the situation so the demands.
At Medica Superspecialty Hospital, the number of patients remained under 40 for several weeks now.
“Even though we are ready to extend the unit, the patient recovers faster now and therefore sleep is emptied faster.
This has helped us to keep accommodating the regular stream of 4-5 patients without the unit getting filled, “said Medica Chairman Alok Roy.
His hospital has 36 Covid patients acknowledging in his 40-bed ward.
While the hospital is ready to add more sleep since the end of the pues, it has not been needed so far.
“The intake and repatriation of patients has been the same for the past two weeks.
While we recognize four new patients a day on average, the number of daily discharge has been the same.
This has caused us to continue without expanding the ward, “said CEO of Peerless Sudipta Mitra.
He added that since two weeks of post-puja almost ended, a dramatic surge in the amount – which was feared – it was impossible.
“The worst can be more and now we hope the amount of reception remains low.
We oversee the situation, though and will add beds if needed, “said partner.
The average length of stay of Covid patients at the Woodlands hospital during the second wave is seven to 10 days.
“It has now dropped to three to five days,” said Rupali Basu, Managing Director & CEO of Woodlands Multispeciality Hospital.
“We now get covid patients with mild to moderate symptoms because most of them have taken both two vaccine doses or at least one.
So, they recover faster, “Basu added.
Amri Hospital has seen a marginal increase in occupancy since pujas but the recovery time has dropped.
This hospital has 110 covid beds in three units with 85 now occupied.
“Because most cases are light, the recovery time has come down.
This has helped to manage units without a drastic increase in the number of beds, “Barua said.
He added that cocktail drugs have contributed to faster recovery.
RN Tagore International Cardiology Institute (RTIICS) has 35 patients in its 47-bed covid unit.
While 15 is in critical treatment, the rest has recovered faster than the second wave, said Zonal R Venkatesh.