Two patients on one bed is a common sight at Delhi’s LNJP hospital as Covid-19 cases pile up.
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00:00We are definitely overburdened.
00:03We are already working at the full capacity, rather double of the capacity.
00:22Initially it was only 54 ICU beds, now we have 300 plus ICU beds.
00:27So we are already overstressed.
00:29And if you see the number of admissions, today we have 158 admissions.
00:35In Loknath alone, all sick patients, all severe patients,
00:39all patients who have oxygen less than 92, 91, 160 admissions.
00:57Over the last few days, we are reaching about 2 lakh new cases per day,
01:19which is the maximum we have ever seen.
01:22Last year also we have not seen such a bad situation.
01:25This time the number is very high and increasing very rapidly, going very fast speed.
01:47It's rising because of two reasons.
01:49One, the virus is mutant variety.
01:54It spreads faster and sometimes it is not even detected by RT-PCR.
02:02So that's why the number is high.
02:04Secondly, the human behavior.
02:06You see the people are not following the COVID guidelines.
02:12They are just careless.
02:14And the third thing is this overcrowding and our population size.