Mumbai: Three Jumbo Covid-19 centers in the bandra-kurla complex, Mulund and Duahar have been asked to start preparations to continue the operation in a gradual way from mid-August.
BMC has caused RS 2-5 crore costs for the maintenance of these centers which are closed in May for improvement and improvement.
Decisions have been taken to operationalize at least 20-25% of beds in these centers in the coming weeks.
Support City Commissioner Suresh Kakani confirmed that the three Jumbos would start operating immediately and each would take several hundred patients.
“The idea is to keep functional centers if the wave in case,” he said, adding it better to have a system that runs and doesn’t have to jump start.
The center will not run to the capacity at first because it means hiring a full set of staff.
There are only 100 reception now from an average of 300-odd new detection every day.
A civilian official said with relaxation given since August 3, there is a possibility that the case can see a marginal increase after 10-12 days.
At present, three jumbo centers – Richardson and Cruddas in Byculla, Nesco in Goregaon and NSCI in Worli – are operating and handling all light and medium reception.
Sevenhills Hospital in Marol serves moderate and critical cases.
In preparation for the third wave, four new field hospitals appeared in the Malad, the Somaiya Yard in Zion, the horse racetrack in Mahalaxmi and in Kanjurmarg.
Overall, BMC plans to make nearly 20,000 jumbo center beds.
The covid jumbo center, which is an emergency field hospital, was built in 2020 after a hit pandemic.
Since then, more than 70,000 patients have been hospitalized mainly by contractual staff but supervised by the designated Dean of the Civil Medical College.
Kakani said the Jumbo Center would play a far greater role in the future, Covid soared the city may experience since medical colleges, including Zion, KEM, BYL NAIR and Cooper, will focus on non-covid diseases.
Officials at the center of Dahar said in the past three months, increased oxygen lines, new high dependency units were assigned, and existing structures were strengthened.
“We are asked to be in a state of readiness because cases can rise.
We can start with 50 beds and gradually open all,” said Dean Dr.
Deepa Shriyan.
The corporation spends the basic price of Rs 4 Crore to maintain seven German hangers, structures that hold wards.
This facility has almost 760 beds.