Cases may be less, yet critical health infrastructure still stretched in Kottayam
The Hindu
The availability of non-ICU beds with oxygen supply stands at 26% of the total capacity
Even as Kottayam continues to witness a steady decline in fresh COVID-19 cases, the number of seriously ill patients appears to have remained nearly stagnant, with the ventilator units and ICU beds in hospitals remaining almost full. As per official estimates, the Test Positivity Rate (TPR) in the district has declined to 15.52% on Sunday with the number of cases coming down to 834. While the availability of total beds excluding ICU beds stood at 50.5%, only 36 (12.5%) out of the 187 ICU beds and 3 (2%) out of the 151 ventilators were available across the 39 COVID hospitals (government and private).More Related News
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