A 38-year-old man who was admitted to Gajendra Narayan Singh Hospital, Rajbiraj on May 11, 2021, has died due to a lack of a ventilator.
The family of the patient was searching for beds for hospitalization in Dharan and Biratnagar due to lack of ventilator facilities in Saptari and meanwhile was taken to Green City Hospital in Biratnagar. According to Gajendra Narayan Singh Hospital, the victim died on the way to Green City Hospital in Biratnagar due to a lack of ventilator facility in Saptari.
Doctors had suggested that the infected person had to be taken to a hospital with a ventilator as his oxygen level was very low. He was admitted at around 5.30 am due to respiratory problems.
The family members of the deceased said that he died on the way to Biratnagar due to a delay in finding a hospital with a ventilator.
According to the hospital’s information officer Suryakant Jha, the four ventilators available at the hospital are out of use due to technical malfunctions in the oxygen concentrator sensor and the anaesthesia doctor is also infected.
He said that the ventilators could come into operation only if the technical problems were resolved and the required manpower was available. At present, two doctors, an AHW and nine nurses of the hospital are also infected.
Medical Superintendent Dr Ranjit Kumar Jha said that there was a shortage of not only ventilators but also health workers.
The administration has already made a written demand to the government of Province 2 to provide the required manpower. However, it has not been addressed.
According to the Saptari Health Office, another woman and a man from Saptari also died on May 11, 2021.
Dambar Gupta, co-coordinator of Kanchanrup Health Branch, said that a 65-year-old woman of Kanchanrup Municipality-8, who had been living in home isolation since May 3 also died due to lack of oxygen.
Gupta said that the woman, who was living in home isolation, was gradually improving but died on the way to the hospital due to lack of oxygen.
Family members informed that they could not reach the isolation centre with oxygen facility in time as the ambulance of the municipality was in use and other ambulances were delayed.
Earlier, a 61-year-old man who was undergoing treatment at the BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences in Dharan after suffering from heart problems and respiratory problems died at 10 am on April 11.
Eleven people, including two women from Saptari, have died in the second wave of Covid-19 within a period of 11 days. So far, 53 infected people of Covid-19 have died in the Saptari district.