Oklahoma Running Out Of Pediatric Hospital Beds As Delta Cases Rise
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Some pediatric ICU patients in the state have been sent to Texas due to the coronavirus, staffing shortages and another respiratory illness.
Oklahoma is running out of desperately needed pediatric hospital beds throughout the state amid rising COVID-19 cases, a surge in a separate serious respiratory illness and nursing shortages. Some children have been sent out of state to other hospitals because of a lack of beds in Oklahoma. “There have been a few pediatric patients who have needed ICU beds that there were no beds here. Any other couple of ICUs ... in the state that could take care of that sick of patients were also full, and we have had to send them out of state,” Dr. Cameron Mantor, chief medical officer at Oklahoma Children’s Hospital, told local Fox News 25.More Related News