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Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai, speaking to media representatives at Humnabad in Bidar district, had said that there was no dearth of either drugs, including Remdesivir, or beds in hospitals for treating COVID-19 patients. However, a video clip showing relatives of COVID-19 patients requesting the staff at Bidar Institute of Medical Sciences to treat patients on the hospital floor itself, if there were no beds available, that went viral on Monday tells a different story. The staff are seen turning down the request as the hospital was full. A day before, a 55-year old woman patient, with an oxygen cylinder attached to her body, roamed Kalaburagi city in an autorickshaw for nearly five hours visiting one hospital after the other desperately searching for an ICU bed. At the end, she was treated in the vehicle outside Gulbarga Institute of Medical Sciences for a few hours before being admitted in hospital.