'What has the medical community done wrong?'
Gov. Greg Abbott has asked hospitals to stop non-emergency surgeries to make room for COVID-19 patients as the contagious strain continues to surge in the region.As of Sunday, there were only six ICU beds open in Austin, 51 in San Antonio and 42 in Houston, critically low numbers for three of the nation's largest cities,In Austin, that number may be even lower due to a lag in ICU availability data reporting."Yesterday we were down to two ICU beds," Dr.
Critical access hospitals and freestanding emergency departments, like the ones Durrani works in, usually aren't designed or staffed to keep patients for extended time periods. Instead, they rely on transferring patients to other facilities for critical care. But given the lack of available beds across the state, transferring is now nearly impossible, Durrani explained.
"We are having extreme difficulty transferring patients out," he said."I have personally transferred patients to other states due to not having any Texas beds."
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