Daijiworld Media Network - Mandya (SP)

Mandya, May 3: For want of oxygen bed in Mandya district hospital, a patient had to wait in the ambulance for four hours in the premises of the district hospital on Sunday May 2. P Dhanajya from Halahalli, Mandya, spent four hours inside the ambulance where oxygen was provided to him.

Dhananjaya reached the district hospital at 9 am but failed to get an oxygen bed. As his health condition was serious, he was put through the CT scan process. He was infected three days back and had been brought here, but he was sent to the community health centre at Keelar for treatment. On Sunday morning, oxygen stock at Keelar was exhausted and therefore, he was sent to the district hospital by an ambulance. He spent time inside the ambulance which had brought him from Keelar till 1.30 pm. Later, he was sent to Nagamangala, after confirming that the government hospital there had a vacant oxygen bed.

As per instructions, infected pregnant women have to be admitted into the district hospital but the district hospital here has no beds to accommodate them. The two labour wards with 24 -bed capacity wards at the hospital already have over 35 pregnant and puerperal women. Some are lying on the bed and they get treatment there.