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May 4, 2020 · In Bihar, only 18 percent went to public hospitals whereas 65 percent reported getting treated by a private doctor. A significant section (nearly 11 percent) reported being treated by ‘informal...
- Befuddling Figures
- Delayed Arrival
- Districts in Dire Straits
- Creaking Infrastructure
- Hospitals as Superspreaders
- Disaster Waiting to Happen
- Whither Accountability?
Since the beginning of the first wave, Bihar’s COVID numbers have befuddled epidemiologists and statisticians alike: how and why did Bihar escape the initial surge and after, despite the influx of migrant workers from across the country and the massive crowds thronging campaign rallies for the Assembly election held in October/November last year. S...
Since May 2020, my husband and I have been based in Bihar, moving between Fatehganj*, a small bazaar town in north-west Bihar, Patna and Muzaffarpur, for my mother-in-law’s cancer treatment. Fear reigned through the course of the unprecedented lockdown in the first wave. But in the absence of any information or wherewithal to deal with this phenome...
But district headquarters across Bihar are in dire straits. There are long queues outside hospitals, dispensaries and pathology labs. Testing services are under pressure with rising workloads and technicians getting infected, resulting in fewer tests than desirable and long lags in arrival of results. I spoke to Dr SK* practising in Siwan, a major ...
The second wave of COVID-19 has unleashed unseen horrors in Bihar’s urban centres. Unlike in the first wave and as opposed to the rural areas, nearly all private hospitals and nursing homes are open and accepting patients in Patna, Muzaffarpur, Gaya and Bhagalpur, the four biggest towns in the State. However, despite this, there is a massive shorta...
Dr Smriti expressed concern that hospitals (public and private) were in fact turning into superspreaders of the virus. “Hospitals are admitting more patients than the available bed strength,” she explained. “This,” she pointed out, “is partly because of the scale of this wave and partly due to the fear of patients’ kin turning on hospital staff, no...
Whatever may be the reasons for its escape from the first wave, there is widespread consensus that Bihar undertook no measures to augment its health care capacity in the interim. Dr Shakeel, a public health activist and non-profit practitioner in Patna, observed that “this was a disaster waiting to happen. When States with advanced health care infr...
“This is a story of complete state callousness,” Dr Shakeel asserts. He substantiates his anger thus: “The fudging of data, including undercounting cases and the inordinate delays in patient reports, is criminal. There is no audit of oxygen and medicines coming into the State. Where is at all going? Which office is responsible for disbursement of t...
Jul 27, 2020 · The COVID-19 pandemic in India is spreading rapidly from urban to rural areas, including in Bihar. The recent surge in the number of cases in this poor state, plus the struggle of its people to...
The report states that district hospitals suffer from shortfall of beds, ranging from 52-92%, as per the India Public Health Standards.
Jun 16, 2020 · Results. We estimated that India has approximately 1.9 million hospital beds, 95,000 ICU beds and 48,000 ventilators. Nationally, resources are concentrated in the private sector (hospital beds: 1,185,242 private vs 713,986 public; ICU beds: 59,262 private vs 35,699 public; ventilators: 29,631 private vs. 17,850 public).
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May 12, 2021 · Since April 27, Bihar has been recording 12,000 to 15,000 cases per day. On May 10, this dipped to 10,174 and the state reported 75 deaths, taking its total toll since the beginning of the...
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Apr 8, 2020 · Number of cases is much higher? According to government estimates, Bihar has so far had just 32 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus. However, doctors and locals believe the number is...
