We get between 5 and 20 doses per day for 50 patients, politicians and bureaucrats call even for those doses to be given to their relatives and friends. For every 5 who get remdesivir, there are 50 relatives and leaders demanding for their patient. Making it impossible for us.
https://twitter.com/krunal_goda/status/1385975087514284034
There is no logic to the allotment. Absolutely arbitrary. 40 bed hospital gets nine doses, 50 bed 5 doses, 100 bed 10 doses and 20 bed also 5 doses. On top of it, if hospital asks relative to procure, officials instigate them by showing the circular of allotment of nominal doses.
As if it was not enough to be managing high volumes of seriously ill patients, we now have to spend additional precious hours explaining to angry relatives and politicians why their patient cannot be given one dose out of the pathetic allotment given by collector to our hospital.
Several hospitals have pointed this out, that it is better not to give any remdesivir at all than give one tenth the requirements and instigate riot like situations in COVID hospitals that are already pushed to the limits. But who is listening to us?
Companies are making around 40 lakh doses per month, enough for every moderate-severe COVID patient in India. But the injections are not reaching where they are needed most and companies don’t have stock. Black marketing continues. Who is responsible? Where are the medicines?
https://twitter.com/amitsurg/status/1386140656096006152
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