LAHORE: The ventilator occupancy at public hospitals in Punjab on Sunday reached 94 percent due to the increasing number of critical Covid-19 patients. Official figures suggested the bed occupancy in the intensive care and high dependency units of the public hospitals in Lahore was alarming. The patients found it difficult to acquire a ventilator at the eight hospitals of Punjab that are reserved for coronavirus patients. The data showed that out of 84 ventilators available at Mayo Hospital, 81 are currently in use of critical patients. All the ventilators designated for the critical patients at Kot Khawaja Saeed Teaching Hospital and Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif Hospital, Jinnah Hospital, General Hospital, and Ganga Ram Hospital have already been occupied.

Source: Pakistan Today April 25, 2021 08:48 UTC