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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Covid-19 cases surge, rural Nashik moves to city for beds -Tabassum Barnagarwala

Covid-19 cases surge, rural Nashik moves to city for beds -Tabassum Barnagarwala

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published Published on Apr 3, 2021   modified Modified on Apr 3, 2021

-The Indian Express

As a second Covid wave rolls over Maharashtra, mainly the rural areas, patients are forced to travel long distances to seek treatment. At Nashik civil hospital, a nodal centre for rural areas, all the 110 beds are full.

WITH PACKED food, bedsheets and bottles of water, they camp outside Nashik Civil General Hospital. They are relatives and close contacts of Covid cases admitted there.

There is Digambar Kad, who lives 10 km away in Mungsara village. He hired a vehicle and went to three hospitals with sister Poonam Bhoir (27), a blood cancer patient who is now Covid-positive, before finding a bed here.

Yogesh Barve lives 65 km away in Chandwad village but this compound has been his home for the past two days. Inside, his wife Meenal (38) is on oxygen support. Nyaneshwar Mahajan travelled 40 km from Niphad village to admit his mother Janabai (50) after other smaller public facilities, all full, turned them away.

As a second Covid wave rolls over Maharashtra, mainly the rural areas, patients are forced to travel long distances to seek treatment. At Nashik civil hospital, a nodal centre for rural areas, all the 110 beds are full.

Nashik has the fifth highest active caseload in Maharashtra. Officials expected the maximum number of active cases to reach 13,000 based on last year’s peak of 11,000 in September. But on Friday, the district surpassed 36,000 active cases.

Rural Nashik recorded 38,949 cases over the last year. But this March alone, it logged 16,042 new cases. “We did not expect such a steep rise, especially rural areas,” says civil surgeon Dr Ratna Raokhande.

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The Indian Express, 3 April, 2021, https://indianexpress.com/article/india/nashik-covid-surge-coronavirus-cases-hospoital-beds-7256604/


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