Outside Rajkot hospital, wait stretches on

Outside Rajkot hospital, wait stretches on

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Rajkot:21.04.2021

Queues of vehicles with patients on oxygen cylinders waiting outside the Rajkot Civil Hospital has become a daily scene while the wait and number of vehicles have only increased as days go by, particularly at night. With minimum six to eight hours of waiting on an average for each patient, many a patient are seen making their own arrangements for bed even in the queue itself.

One such patient, Jenti Ramavat, who was waiting in the queue since 9pm on Monday had to get himself a bedstead when till midnight his turn did not come. His relatives told media persons that Ramamvat was feeling uncomfortable wanted to sleep outside and so they fetched him a bedstead. He finally got admission after 12 hours of waiting.

Quoting sources, about 100 vehicles were in the queue since early morning on Tuesday in the ground of Chaudhary high school on the back side of civil hospital from where Covid patients are being admitted.

Rajkot district has a total of 30 ambulances which have all been pressed into managing Covid patients. Seriously ill patients are also arriving in private vehicles, autorickshaws and any vehicle they are managing to get and waiting in the serpentine queues.

“The hospital staff is providing treatment in108 and private ambulances as well as passengers in auto rickshaw and cars. They also provide oxygen cylinders in the vehicles standing outside on the school ground,” the statement reads.

About 100 vehicles were in queue since early on Tuesday morning

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