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Mangaluru City South MLA D. Vedavyasa Kamath has said that the Government Wenlock Hospital, which is the territory hospital, has reduced the fig of intensive attraction units (ICUs) owed to dearth of funds, causing a occupation for patients.
In his missive dated October 17, 2025 to Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dinesh Gundu Rao, the MLA said that patients from 5 neighbouring districts travel to the infirmary for exigency treatments and that reducing the fig of ICUs is coming successful the mode of treating them.
During the pandemic, the infirmary had implicit 115 ICUs. Moreover, it housed implicit 250 beds with oxygen proviso erstwhile COVID-19 hit. The authorities should summation the fig of ICUs astatine the hospital, helium said.
Meanwhile, successful a media connection connected Sunday, Mr. Kamath said that the authorities should not play with the wellness of the people.
Mr. Rao, who is besides the in-charge curate of Dakshina Kannada, said that the request of the radical should not beryllium ignored, adding that if determination is simply a shortage of unit nurses successful the hospital, the authorities should bash the needful to name them.
