{"id":113800,"date":"2021-04-26T16:19:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T23:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=113800"},"modified":"2021-04-26T16:19:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T23:19:01","slug":"shortage-of-icu-beds-in-hospitals-islandwide-rise-in-number-of-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/04\/26\/shortage-of-icu-beds-in-hospitals-islandwide-rise-in-number-of-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortage of ICU beds in hospitals islandwide Rise in number of COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>With the number of COVID-19 cases on the rise daily, there is a shortage of beds in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) for the COVID-19 patients in hospitals islandwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Primary Health Care, Epidemics and COVID-19 Disease Control Minister Sudarshani Fernandopulle told Daily Mirror that the available capacity in ICU was almost full.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steps are being taken to increase the capacity in ICUs and High Dependency Units in order to address the issue,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She also said a new strain had been apparently identified and that\u2019s why the ICU admissions had gone up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a tendency of youths getting COVID-19 complications and being admitted in ICUs than adults at present,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, we are taking all measures to mitigate the situation and minimise the risk,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the State Minister said people were not careful and were acting in an irresponsible manner.&nbsp;<strong>(Sheain Fernandopulle)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror With the number of COVID-19 cases on the rise daily, there is a shortage of beds in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) for the COVID-19 patients in hospitals islandwide. Primary Health Care, Epidemics and COVID-19 Disease Control Minister Sudarshani Fernandopulle told Daily Mirror that the available capacity in ICU was almost full. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}