Dengue wards bursting at seams in city

Manav Mander

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, November 4

The inflow of dengue patients is increasing with each passing day and the dengue wards of all city hospitals are full to capacity. The Civil Hospital is treating patients double its capacity.

There are 20 beds in the dengue ward of the Civil Hospital while the number of patients admitted has reached 32. They are sharing the beds.

“We do not send back patients. Those who are ready to share beds are admitted to the dengue ward. Although having a capacity of 20 patients, we are at present accommodating more than 30 patients in the ward, and the staff are also making all effort to provide them treatment,” said the Senior Medical Officer, Dr Avinash Jindal.

Dr Jindal said he was all praise for his staff for never stepping back and they were treating double the patients at the given infrastructure.

At Dayanand Medical College and Hospital, it takes four-five hours and sometimes a day or two for the dengue patients to get admitted.

Relatives of a patient at the DMCH said he had been waiting since morning to get his mother admitted to the Hospital.

A spokesperson for the DMCH said all patients were being admitted to the hospital although sometimes it might take little longer.

“Patients not only from our district or state but also from the neighbouring states are coming to the hospital due to which the ward generally remains full. But they are trying to accommodate every patient,” he said.

Enquiries made at other hospitals also revealed that their wards are full too. Hemant Kumar, a patient at a private hospital, said he was shifted to the surgical ward of the hospital as the general ward was full to capacity.

“The hospitals are trying to adjust the patients wherever they can,” he said.