K'taka gets OxyBus service for Covid patients

May 11, 2021 15:48

Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Tuesday asked Covid patients over-staying in hospitals 'unnecessarily' to go home to make way for serious ones to get treatment.

"What is the need for the 332 patients to remain in the hospital for 30 days? They should vacate the beds. There are 503 patients in the hospital for 20 days. This way people who are staying in the hospital unnecessarily should go home," he said.

The CM also launched the OxyBus service to aid Covid-19 patients during emergencies. Each makeshift OxyBus supports up to 8 patients. 20 such units will be set up near Govt Hospitals and Triage Centers in Bengaluru, and more units will be set up across the state.

He was speaking to reporters after visiting a COVID war room in Bengaluru which has generated data about the COVID patients, the status of beds in the hospitals, oxygen availability and other essential drugs for the pandemic.

The CM said the COVID War Room has generated information about those patients who can avail treatment at home but were staying put in the hospital depriving serious patients from getting treatment.

Responding to a query, Yediyurappa said those 503 people are in the hospital despite advice of doctors for their discharge.

According to him, such patients should be told that the treatment was over and they should go home paving the way for admission of serious ones.

Hailing the COVID War Room management, Yediyurappa said it is a model in the country as the data are perfect giving every detail on a real time basis about the number of people admitted, for how long they are there and the availability of beds in the hospitals for COVID patients. "We are operating this war room in a systematic manner, which probably cannot be seen anywhere in the country," the he said.

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