As the worst of the pandemic is over, admission of patients with Covid-19 at hospitals has dropped to the lowest in two years. For the last two years, these hospitals have been running about two-three times their normal workload.
At Max Healthcare’s hospitals in the National Capital Region, there were just 10 new Covid admissions in the first week of March. That number fell to two during the week of March 8-14, while only one Covid patient was admitted between March 15 and 21. During March 22-24, there were no new admissions, according to data from the hospital chain.
“We have no active positive cases of Covid-19 at our network hospitals at present. However, we are receiving respiratory flu-like illnesses which are Covid negative,” said Sandeep Budhiraja, group medical director, Max Healthcare.
Most hospitals are seeing the same trend with regard to Covid-19 caseload, a stark contrast from January and previous months. Cases were going up at this time last year, and during the peak of the second wave around April-end in 2021, almost all the beds available in government and private facilities were occupied by Covid patients.
The hospitalisation numbers are decreasing drastically. According to Fortis Healthcare, it saw 31 admissions in the first week of March. The numbers were 12 in the second week and 13 the following seven days, while this week, just four people were admitted with Covid-related complications.
At Delhi’s Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, there are currently no Covid patients, an executive said.
Doctors said this is the first time the Covid caseload had fallen to this level since the pandemic began more than two years ago. “Before this, the time between Alpha and Delta saw a similar trend but that was a brief period,” said the Apollo executive. Doctors are experiencing varying levels of optimism with the hospitalisation numbers dropping drastically.
“With the rapid spread of Omicron during the third wave, there was a phase of gloom among the doctors considering there would be a higher rate of hospitalisation, like we experienced with the Delta variant. Thanks to the low aggression of the virus, affecting only the upper respiratory tract, it is a sigh of relief looking at the all-time low hospitalisation numbers,” said Hari Krishan Gonuguntla, consultant interventional pulmonologist at Hyderabad’s Yashoda Hospitals.
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