oxygen equipped ambulances can serve a critical Covid patient.

As the district witnesses a surge in active coronavirus cases, patients and their relatives continue to wait for hours to get admission into government hospitals.

Given the current situation, it is quite unpredictable to assess how long a critical patient needs to wait to gain access to the hospital treatment. As a result, many ambulances are being used as a treatment point, especially when the patients had to wait for a long time to get admitted into a hospital.

Those who fail to access hospital treatment even after waiting for hours in the ambulance are approaching private institutions. However, the situation in private hospitals is equally worse as they too suffer from a shortage of beds.

In the process of shifting from one point to the other, some of the critical patients are succumbing to the virus as the shortage of beds in both government and private hospitals mount.