ranchi with the second wave of the covid19 pandemic hitting the state patients in ranchi district are finding it difficult to get institutional care as most private hospitals are running short of beds and government healthcare facilities are yet to be ramped up of the 6844 active cases in jharkhand on tuesday night ranchi accounted for more than 53 3665the state capital is witnessing a massive surge in covid reporting a positivity rate as high as that in mumbai which is getting close to 9000 new cases a day in the first six days of this month a total of 15952 samples were tested in ranchi of which 2763 returned a positive result while jharkhand reported 528 positivity rate in the last six days the same for ranchi shot up to 18 the highest among all 24 districts in the state during the peak of infection between augustseptember last year ranchis positivity rate stood between 1012 the state capital has so far reported 38233 covid cases of which 34298 recoveries 3264 active cases and 272 deathson tuesday toi found that the state health departments claim on the number of beds at rajendra institute of medical sciences rims does not match with the figures provided by the hospital in a statement issued by the health department on tuesday it was claimed that rims has a total of 478 beds for covid19 patients including 252 normal beds 90 oxygensupported beds 88 icu beds and 48 ventilator bedshowever rims pro dr d k sinha said currently we have a total of 88 normal beds 47 oxygensupported beds 45 ventilator beds which will be increased to 100 normal beds and 107 oxygensupported beds by today wednesday evening we will also increase the ventilator beds but will need time to purchase themat sadar hospital while there are 182 beds on paper only 122 are functional as the hospital is not being able to operate 60 ventilator beds due to lack of specialist doctors central hospital of coal india limited has a capacity of 60 beds and all were found to be occupied on wednesdayas per the health department records a total of 710 beds have been created for asymptomatic patients at khelgaon however ranchi civil surgeon dr v b prasad said there are no takers as people prefer to be in home isolation if they are asymptomaticmeanwhile leading private hospitals in the city said their covid19 wards are running on full occupancy private hospitals including medica orchid samford raj maa ram pyaari medanta sentevita and seva sadan didnt have beds for any new covid patient we have a 50bedded dedicated covid19 ward and all beds are occupied we are flooded with requests for admission and we are admitting fresh patients only when someone is getting discharged said anand srivastava advisor to medica group of hospitals