Reacting to news reports about scarcity of COVID beds at corporate hospitals in and around Hyderabad, Telangana Super Speciality Hospitals Association (TSSHA) members said the need for maintaining social distancing inside hospitals, workforce crunch and lack of ventilators have restricted them from putting to use all the beds available with him. Beds for coronavirus patients were available only at one of the 23 hospitals. “So the bed count has come down by one-third, or by half,” Dr Rao said. Even if beds are available, the workforce would not be available, and social distancing has to be maintained, reasoned Dr Rao. One of the solutions floated is to keep the beds available by isolating asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic COVID patients at home.

Source: The Hindu June 23, 2020 18:22 UTC