Gandhi hospital superintendent Dr. Raja Rao today urged the residents of the city to not venture out of their houses by keeping in view of the huge increase in the number of Covid 19 virus cases.
He told them that they should not go to hospitals unless it was needed. He said that the power to contain the spread of the virus lied in the hands of the people of the city and the state. He warned the people that the virus might infect if they visited the hospitals in an unnecessary manner.
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Citing that there is no scope for the imposition of lockdown in the state, he said that the people should impose self lockdown in the state. He said that they had admitted 150 people into the hospital on Friday alone and added that the hospital had only 350 beds.
He made it clear that all the patients admitted by them were in the need of ICU treatment and added that they had adjusted the beds by working hard till night. He made it clear that it would become very difficult for them to adjust the beds if the situation continued in the same manner.
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He said that they had 1450 beds with oxygen facility and added that they still needed ICU beds although they have oxygen beds. He said that the rate of infection of the Covid 19 virus very high in the state.
SOURCE-NSS
