Bengaluru: Tragedy struck exterior Bengaluru’s KC General Hospital on Sunday after a child died contained in the auto-rickshaw speeding mom and youngster from hospital to hospital in quest of medical care.
Without medical help the toddler, born inside that auto-rickshaw, died exterior the hospital, after the then-pregnant mom was turned away from at the least three different state-run services. The Srirampura Government Hospital, Victoria Hospital and Vanivilas Hospital all stated they’d no beds to accommodate a pregnant girl on the verge of giving delivery. There is a hospital devoted for pregnant ladies within the metropolis’s Wilson Garden neighbourhood, however it’s unclear if the mom knew this.
The hunt for a hospital mattress, in a metro metropolis that’s already struggling to cope with the influence of the coronavirus outbreak, started at Three AM. Six hours later the mom was nonetheless without a hospital mattress and medical help, leaving her helpless and compelled to ship inside an auto-rickshaw, the driving force of which then took her to KC General.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, whose tweet introduced the girl’s plight into focus, appealed to the present Chief Minister, BS Yediyurappa, asking him to take motion. “A pregnant woman, who was experiencing labour pain, was denied treatment by many hospitals in Bengaluru. She lost her newborn baby after delivering it in an auto-rickshaw. @CMofKarnataka, I urge you to take action against all those hospitals that denied treatment,” he tweeted.
“More non covid patients are dying in Karnataka due to denial of treatment by hospitals. @CMofKarnataka, cancel the licences of all those hospitals that deny treatments. Just a mere warning will not move hospitals,” he stated in a second tweet.
This is the second toddler to die in Bengaluru over the previous 10 days after alleged lack of care. On Saturday a grieving father protested in entrance of the Chief Minister’s residence after his month-old daughter died. Hospital beds in Bengaluru are quickly changing into a scarce commodity following a surge in covid-19 circumstances.
On Monday Karnataka reported 3,648 new infections, of which 1,452 had been from Bengaluru (Urban), the place the entire variety of circumstances has crossed 33,000. There have additionally been reviews that hospitals, struggling to cope with the numbers, are additionally turning away COVID-19 sufferers.
On Saturday the Chief Minister ordered private hospitals within the metropolis to order 50 per cent of their beds for COVID-19 sufferers. The remaining 50 per cent will cater to non-coronavirus sufferers. However, with the quickly rising caseload, demand for hospital beds for these contaminated by COVID-19, in addition to the necessity to isolate such sufferers, is probably going to place extra stress town’s medical infrastructure.
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