Seven-month-old Mina was breathing heavily. Nana Shahjahan came to Dhaka Children's Hospital last Friday on Mia's lap. There was no room in the hospital. Even the little life could not be saved.
Badda resident Shahjahan Mia said in the first light on Sunday that the doctor had advised her granddaughter to be taken to Dhaka Children's Hospital for good treatment after the examination. They also went there on the advice of the doctor. Seeing the child, doctors said the child had to be given to the ICU. But the ICU is not empty in the children's hospital. You have to take it to another hospital. Meena died in the car on her way from the children's hospital to another hospital.
Dhaka Children's Hospital is unable to accommodate many patients like Mina. "I can't say if doctors have crossed such a critical situation," Hospital Deputy Director Prabir Kumar Sarkar said in the first light on Sunday. If we make a comparison, we have treated 600 covid-19 patients. Today's news is that not a single one of Covid's 20 beds is empty. This is the beginning of the incident. The patient may have to be sent to Dhaka Medical. There are also 20-25 seats for children suffering from corona. It will be seen that he is not able to get admission there either. So what will happen to the fate of these patients?
The doctor added that the number of dengue cases has more than tripled in the last two months as there were dengue patients throughout the year. There were 50 patients on Sunday. Most of them come in critical condition. It turns out that at least 60 per cent of children are with 'shock'. Some of them bleed, water comes out of the blood vessels. It contains the blood components of the patient's body. But the blood transport system inside the body is hampered. Such a patient needs special management. Sometimes children have to lose if that is not confirmed. Their liver, kidneys, brain all become useless one by one.
How much treatment is Dhaka Children's Hospital able to provide to critically endangered patients? Doctors said that it is not possible in a ward or cabin in an environment where such a patient needs to be treated. There are four nurses for 30-40 children in the hospital. A doctor for 8-10 patients. However, for such a patient, there needs to be a nurse, a doctor for two or three.
Since the onset of covid, 5-7 doctors and health workers have been infected with covid every month. They have to be out of work for 14 days. Even in intensive care centres (ICU), adequate beds cannot be provided. Dhaka Children's Hospital has a provision for keeping patients in 47 beds for a specified amount of money and free of cost in paediatric, normal, neonut, cardiac ICU. Two of the six beds in the cardiac ICU alone were empty on Sunday. Parents from one of them have again left the child in their responsibility and empty.
Investigations revealed that most of the total 673 bedded hospitals were full. As a result, parents are coming from far and wide in sick baby arms, returning without finding the bed empty. On Sunday also, 50 dengue patients were admitted to Dhaka Children's Hospital. Eight of them were in intensive care centers. So far 199 people have taken dengue treatment at the hospital, 4 have died. 8 in icu.
Not a single bed in Dengue ward was found empty on Sunday. Parents were seen hanging mosquito nets and sitting with children. Ansar Ali was asked exactly what circumstances he had brought his 10-year-old grandson Rabiul. He said in the first light that when he brought his grandson from Wari, he had a high fever. Bleeding with vomiting. Seeing that the fever was not going down, he brought the Children's Hospital to Dhaka. Five days later, the grandson sat up. Rokeya Akhtar was sitting next to this bed with her two-and-a-half-year-old grandson. Canula in grandson's hand. He's crying. The symptoms are the same. The fever is not coming down. The three-year-old sleeping on the opposite side has recovered somewhat from treatment.
Note: "Maria, a pneumonia-stricken child from Tongi, was brought for treatment by her parents."
Maria's mother, Nasrat Jahan, said the girl had pneumonia. It was good. Sudden pneumonia. He doesn't understand why. He has come to Dhaka Children's Hospital on the advice of doctors. Lying on her mother's lap next door, the baby for a few months is burning with fever. He's also waiting for a bed.
There are also numerous patients in the outpatient department. Children suffering from various diseases including disability, kidney complications, heart disease have come to the children's hospital for treatment as usual. A crowd of children suffering from asthma was also seen in the outpatient department.
Dhaka Children's Hospital is a specialized hospital for children in Dhaka. When asked how many seats were vacant to the person working in the record room, he said 165 beds were vacant. Why is there no place anyway? On such a question, he said that one ward and bed is also different for each disease. There are two in a ward, three in some. This bed will also be filled within days.