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Covid-19: Ridge ICU running out of oxygen

February 3, 2021
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The Covid-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Ridge, is running out of oxygen.

This is as a result of the increasing number of critical care and severe cases of Covid-19 reported at the facility.

Covid-19 Case Management Lead at the hospital, Dr Emmanuel Ahiable, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), revealed that critical care beds at the Unit had been occupied since January 8, 2021, with high demand for oxygen.

Consequently, the Centre is said to be in urgent need of higher volumes of oxygen as each patient at the ICU requires 15 litres of oxygen per minute, with patients staying on oxygen for at least two weeks.

Dr Ahiable said the situation had been alarming since the beginning of 2021 because more covid-19 patients referred to the facility were in critical conditions.

He said after January 8, the Unit had to expand its eight-bed facility to 16, as it received more referrals across Greater Accra Region.

As of February 1, when the GNA visited the facility, 15 out of the 16 critical care beds were occupied.

Dr Ahiable said the Unit had seen about 50 severe to critical cases from January 1 to 31 this year.

According to him, 20 out of the number recovered and were discharged, 18 made up of 11 males, six females and a five-year-old boy died while 13 are still on admission.

Dr Ahiable disclosed that, last week was the first time a child (with an underlining health condition of a down syndrome) died of coronavirus infection at the hospital since the outbreak in March, 2020.

He added that the spike in severe cases was worrying because more pregnant women were being brought to the ICU with critical conditions.

“Last month alone, we recorded seven cases involving pregnant women, one of them died here after delivering a 32-week-old baby by herself,” he said.

Dr Ahiable said the Unit, therefore, urgently needs ventilators (Halminton C1) because patients under high volumes of oxygen recovered quickly on ventilators.

He noted that the Unit was also running out of Covid-19 test kits with more people walking in to get tested.

Dr Ahiable, therefore, appealed to government and private institutions to support the facility in the fight against the pandemic.

From March 2020 to January 2021, the Ridge Covid-19 ICU, built and being operated with the hospital’s Internally Generated Funds has seen 267 severe cases with 51 deaths, with the highest recorded in January this year.

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