The actual number of corona patients in the hospital is unknown

Exactly how many corona patients are being treated in hospitals in the country is not available. The Department of Health is reporting just how many patients are admitted to government-designated hospitals for coronation. But many corona patients are now being treated in various private hospitals. The department is not giving their information.

There are now 14,720 beds in government-designated hospitals for corona treatment. According to the Department of Health, 4,403 people were admitted to these hospitals on Saturday, which is only 4.9 percent of the total patients. That is, 72 percent of the beds were empty. There are 379 Intensive Care Units (ICUs) in the designated hospitals. There were 216 people in the ICU yesterday. That means 43 percent of ICU beds were empty. Apart from these hospitals, the Department of Health does not say how many corona patients are being treated in private hospitals.


Bangladesh Specialized Hospital at Shyamoli in the capital has a 42-bed corona unit with ICU facilities. The private hospital has been treating Corona patients since the first week of June. Al Imran Chowdhury, director and chief executive officer of the hospital, told Prothom Alo that most of the time patients are in all the beds.


The Greenlife Hospital on Green Road in the capital has 100 beds for Corona patients. On an average, more than 60 corona patients are admitted here daily. Similarly, 80 to 90 corona patients are admitted to Labaid Hospital daily.

The Universal Medical College Hospital in Mohakhali has 35 beds for corona. Doctor Ashish Kumar Chakraborty, managing director of the hospital, told Prothom Alo yesterday that patients with corona symptoms were also being treated at their hospital. And 10 to 12 corona patients are admitted in a day.

The corona of businessman Farooq Khan, a resident of West Rajabazar, was identified on June 23. He was admitted to a private hospital on June 24. He returned home on July 13 after 20 days of treatment. His daughter Sumaiya bint Farooq said those who were admitted to the government-designated hospital for coronation did not have a good experience.

In order to ensure medical treatment for corona patients, the Ministry of Health directed on May 24 that separate arrangements should be made for the treatment of covid and non-covid patients in all public and private hospitals with 50 beds or more. Following the directive, corona treatment has been started in several hospitals and clinics in the capital and outside the capital since June. However, the Department of Health is not disclosing the number of private hospitals undergoing corona treatment.

If you want to know how many patients are admitted in different hospitals of Dhaka district, Civil Surgeon Abu Hossain said. Moinul Ahsan said in the first light, now all the hospitals are treating patients. It is not known how many corona patients there are in any hospital in Dhaka district. However, hospitals can provide the information of the admitted patient directly to the department if they want.

Although many patients are being treated in various private hospitals, their information is not being shared with the Department of Health
There are 14,720 beds in the hospitals designated for Corona
4 thousand 403 people were admitted yesterday.
In Rajshahi division, 87.5 percent of the total beds are empty

Corona patients are being admitted to the private TMSS Medical College and Rafatullah Community Hospital in Bogra outside Dhaka. The hospital has a 160-bed corona unit with 10 ICU facilities. There are 70 to 80 corona patients admitted here daily.

Ayesha Akhter, spokesperson for the health department and assistant director of the Health Emergency Operations Center and Control Room, told Prothom Alo that now only patients admitted to hospitals designated for corona are being given information. Information on corona patients admitted to other hospitals is not included here. Other hospital information is being input into the software. Information of those hospitals will be known in a few days.

Public health experts have repeatedly said that there is a shortage of corona data provided by the health department from the very beginning. They think that the information provided by the department is not a true picture of the Corona situation in the country. Lack of complete information of hospitalized patients is also part of mismanagement.

Professor Bay-Nazir Ahmed, former director of the disease control branch of the Department of Public Health and Health, told Prothom Alo that there is a huge deficit in the management of coronary information in the country. The way the data needs to be analyzed pathologically is not being done. As a result, it has become impossible to understand the real situation.

There are no patients in the designated hospital

There are 1,620 beds for covid-19 patients in 8 district hospitals of Rajshahi division. Only 201 patients were admitted to these beds yesterday. In other words, 87.5 percent of the total beds are empty. There are 5 and a half thousand covid-19 patients in Rajshahi division. Of these, only 3.8 percent patients are receiving treatment at the hospital.

In this regard, Rajshahi Divisional Health Director Gopendra Nath Acharya told Prothom Alo that those who have mild symptoms are being treated at home. Fear is also at work among patients staying in the hospital. Patients are feeling better because of the home environment.

Analyzing the data of the Health Emergency Operations Center and Control Room of the Health Department, it is seen that at least 36 percent of the beds are vacant in Barisal Division. In Dhaka metropolis 72% and in Dhaka division 85.6% of the beds are vacant. In Chittagong metropolis 52.9 percent and in Chittagong division 69 percent of the beds have no patients. Mymensingh division 83 percent, Rangpur 85 percent, Khulna 66 percent and