Major hospitals running short of beds for critical Covid patients.

LAHORE -- The provincial capital is becoming a `hard-to-survive city for the Covid-19 patients after its state-run teaching hospitals are running short of beds for them amid a massive surge in the number of serious patients, while the highest number of deaths are also occurring here in Punjab every day.

Presently, the corona wards at the major teaching hospitals of Lahore have almost become full, while attendants are running from pillar to post to get their critical Covid-19 patients admitted to public hospitals.

According to official sources, the health authorities are just `befooling` the patients by making claimsin the ofncial record regarding `availability of beds in sufficient number` at the teaching institutions, including Jinnah, Services, Mayo and the Lahore General hospitals. However, they say, the situation on ground is very disturbing as the patients are being denied admission on visiting these hospitals because of non-availability of beds.

A Covid patient, Rafia (45), was taken to the Jinnah Hospital on Friday night by her family where doctors suggested them to take her to any other hospital citing nonavailability of bed.

`We took her to the Lahore General Hospital but could not find any bed there,` Rafia`s husband Ashfaq told Dawn.

He said as they reached the Pakistan Kidney and LiverInstitute (PKLI), the staff at the reception denied them entry into the health facility, saying no beds were available. Given her serious condition, her husband finally got her admitted to an expensive private hospital on Jail Road.

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