Two child patients per bed!

A stream of child patients with typhoid and cold-related diseases, including pneumonia, has been causing serious overcrowding at the paediatric ward of the Patuakhali General Hospital for the last one month. And the authorities, in order to provide treatment to the maximum number of patients at the 48-bed ward, have been allocating each bed for two patients, along with their attendants. This, of course, means that the Covid-19 safety guidelines are impossible to follow at the ward, putting the parents of these children, as well as the hospital staff, at great risk of contracting the disease.