At least 115 patients have died in Dhaka North City Corporation’s Covid-19 hospital in two weeks since the starting of its operation.

The largest Covid treatment facility has treated 900 patients in two week.

The hospital authorities said that initially patients were pouring into the hospital and they were struggling to ensure medical facilities to all, but situation has improved and the hospital is not facing trouble.

On Monday afternoon, 115 people were undergoing treatment there; with 68 of them in the intensive care units.

The hospital’s director Brigadier General AKM Nasir Uddin said that 345 patients were admitted in the hospital with Covid infections and 115 of them died.

The information showed that one in three patients admitted in the hospital died.

The 1,000-bed hospital, which opened partially on April 18, was filled within two days due to the rush of patients.

The hospital director said that they had over 100 beds in the ICU. The rest beds are in high dependency unit with high flow nasal cannula facilities and in general cabins.

However, many patients and their attendants have to move outside for having their tests done as the hospital lacks different medical test facilities.

Patients admitted there suffered for days as the hospital did not have CT scan facilities for 15 days since the starting of its operation.

57-year-old Nazma Begum has been undergoing treatment in the hospital for last few days. She needed urgent CT scan, but the hospital did not have that facility.

‘We had no other option without moving outside carrying the critical patient,’ said Nazma’s nephew Sibbir Ahmed.

Hospital director Nasir said they were now installing CT scan facilities which would be in full operation from today.

Despite being a major Covid treatment facility, the hospital is yet to have any RT-PCR testing equipment.

Earlier antigen tests were only mechanism for Covid test there and recently GeneXpert machine was installed.

Some attendants of patients even have to rush outside as the hospital did not have enough medicine and high flow nasal cannula support.

The director said that they were improving their facilities gradually and most patients admitted there are suffering from old age complications, chronic diseases, comorbidity and chronic asthma which contribute to high death rate.