BCG vaccine could strengthen immunity against diseases other than TB, which could come as a relief to healthcare workers dealing with the coronavirus threat.
With close to 2.8 mn cases every year, India has world's highest TB numbers. PM Narendra Modi said at 74th session of UNGA last year that India will be free of TB by 2025.
These targets are part of Modi gov’s National Strategic Plan (2017-25) to eliminate tuberculosis from India 5 yrs ahead of the target set under UN Sustainable Development Goals.
This is a generation that has been made mincemeat. Whether it’s Nepal, Sri Lanka, or Bangladesh, each country’s youth has been slapped with crisis after crisis.
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India needs at least 5 ICU beds per 10,000 people, i.e., 65,000 ICU beds. Here’s Why:
During the peak of the epidemic in Wuhan, in mid- to late February, two thousand and eighty-seven COVID-19 patients required intensive care every day, usually including ventilator support. That meant that Wuhan’s medical-care centers needed about 2.6 intensive-care beds for every ten thousand adults in the city.
According to a 2010 report in US, there are 2.8 critical-care hospital beds for every ten thousand American adults, and a separate study, from 2015, suggests that those beds generally have a 65% per-cent occupancy rate. That means a Wuhan-like event in the U.S. would stretch, and perhaps overwhelm, many American I.C.U.s I am assuming the occupancy rate is higher in India.
14% per cent of Wuhan’s population is over the age of 65, compared with 15% per cent in the United States, and the rates of crucial comorbidities, such as hypertension, are higher in the U.S. In an American city, the outbreak could require 2.6 I.C.U. beds for every ten thousand adults, as it did in Wuhan, but that figure represents a better-case scenario. The upper bound, they calculated, would be 4.9 critically ill people per every 10,000.
If we extrapolate that to Indian population, India would require at least 65,000 ICU beds. According to a study, “ICU care in India – Status and challenges” in “The Journal of the Association of Physicians of India,” 56:221-2, May 2008, in India, the number of ICU beds available is disproportionately low, both in private as well as public hospitals. Obtaining a bed in ICU is quite often difficult for critically ill patients. Owing to shortage of ICU beds, only the most critical of the deserving patients are provided ICU care, that contributes to high mortality. The ICU bed strength varies between less than 5% of the total hospital beds in majority of hospitals, to near 10% in selected few hospitals.
So, bapus need to get working! You have 20 days breathing time.
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India needs at least 5 ICU beds per 10,000 people, i.e., 65,000 ICU beds. Here’s Why:
During the peak of the epidemic in Wuhan, in mid- to late February, two thousand and eighty-seven COVID-19 patients required intensive care every day, usually including ventilator support. That meant that Wuhan’s medical-care centers needed about 2.6 intensive-care beds for every ten thousand adults in the city.
According to a 2010 report in US, there are 2.8 critical-care hospital beds for every ten thousand American adults, and a separate study, from 2015, suggests that those beds generally have a 65% per-cent occupancy rate. That means a Wuhan-like event in the U.S. would stretch, and perhaps overwhelm, many American I.C.U.s I am assuming the occupancy rate is higher in India.
14% per cent of Wuhan’s population is over the age of 65, compared with 15% per cent in the United States, and the rates of crucial comorbidities, such as hypertension, are higher in the U.S. In an American city, the outbreak could require 2.6 I.C.U. beds for every ten thousand adults, as it did in Wuhan, but that figure represents a better-case scenario. The upper bound, they calculated, would be 4.9 critically ill people per every 10,000.
If we extrapolate that to Indian population, India would require at least 65,000 ICU beds. According to a study, “ICU care in India – Status and challenges” in “The Journal of the Association of Physicians of India,” 56:221-2, May 2008, in India, the number of ICU beds available is disproportionately low, both in private as well as public hospitals. Obtaining a bed in ICU is quite often difficult for critically ill patients. Owing to shortage of ICU beds, only the most critical of the deserving patients are provided ICU care, that contributes to high mortality. The ICU bed strength varies between less than 5% of the total hospital beds in majority of hospitals, to near 10% in selected few hospitals.
So, bapus need to get working! You have 20 days breathing time.