April 30, 2021
16 ventilators currently vacant for critically ill COVID patients in Lahore’s public hospitals
LAHORE: The ventilator occupancy at Punjab government hospitals has reached 96 per cent due to the increasing number of critical COVID patients. According to the details, the bed occupancy situation in the intensive care and high dependency units of the public sector hospitals in Lahore was alarming. The data shows out of 84 ventilators at Mayo Hospital, 80 are currently in use of critically ill patients. 32 ventilators allocated for the COVID critical patients at the Services Hospital are also occupied. All the ventilators designated for the critical COVID patients at Kot Khawaja Saeed and Mian Nawaz Sharif (Yakki Gate).


