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The Brihanamumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) stated in a launch on Wednesday that this transfer will facilitate availability of a minimum of 2,400 extra beds for sufferers within the metropolis.
- PTI
- Last Updated: May 21, 2020, 12:17 PM IST
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has directed civic officers to amass a minimum of 100 beds, together with 10 in ICUs, of personal nursing properties and small hospitals in all 24 wards of Mumbai within the wake of rising variety of COVID-19 instances within the metropolis.
This will facilitate availability of a minimum of 2,400 extra beds for sufferers within the metropolis, the Brihanamumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) stated in a launch on Wednesday.
Mumbai recorded 1,372 new COVID-19 instances and 41 deaths on Wednesday, the BMC stated.
The tally of instances within the nation’s monetary capital thus reached 23,935 and dying toll rose to 841.
In the wake of the rising variety of instances, BMC Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal directed ward and well being officers to finish the method of buying beds in non-public nursing properties and hospitals quickly.
He additionally directed ward officers to file police complaints towards non-public nursing properties, polyclinics and hospitals which haven’t reopened.
Chahal additionally directed ward officers to offer private protecting tools (PPE) kits to personal nursing properties and hospitals, the BMC launch stated.
Nearly 1,000 well being surveillance groups are day by day surveying six to seven lakh individuals, and suspected coronavirus sufferers are being referred to COVID Care Centres.
The civic physique additionally stated that 58,14,340 homes have been surveyed and seven,447 suspected instances have been referred until date.
On Monday, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) handed over a make-shift facility of 1,000 beds within the Bandra-Kurla Complex to the town civic physique.
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