As the number of coronavirus cases in India mounts and demand for medical facilities increases, a survey by LocalCircles said that only four per cent patients were able to get a Covid-19 ICU bed through the routine process, while 78 per cent had to use connections and clout. Another four per cent said they did not get an ICU bed at all.
After receiving many complaints from citizens from across the country about their family friends or associates not being able to find an ICU bed at a government or private hospital, LocalCircles conducted a survey to get citizen’s pulse on the issue and received over 17,000 responses from citizens located in over 211 districts of the country.
On experiences of people in their social network with regard to getting a COVID-19 ICU bed, 55 per cent citizens said that they did not have any person in their network who needed it.
Thirty eight per cent respondents said they had to use clout to secure an ICU bed while seven per cent said they had to follow up extensively to secure the ICU bed.
