Covid Bed Allotment Through "War Rooms", Not Hospitals: Mumbai's Plan

Tuesday, 30 March 2021Newsdesk

As coronavirus cases continue to rise in Mumbai, the city's civic body is preparing for a possible shortage of hospital beds, thus adding and reserving more beds for Covid patients. At private hospitals, all ICU beds and 80 per cent of all Covid beds will be reserved for centralised allotment to patients through the civic body's "Ward War Rooms".

New Delhi, 30 March 2021

As per news report of NDTV, by this weekend, Mumbai is aiming to make around 7,000 beds available for patients infected by the virus and need to be hospitalised. Mumbai recorded 5,888 new cases and 12 deaths on Monday as Maharashtra remains the worst-hit state in India. 2,269 beds for Covid patients, including 360 ICUs, will be added to private hospitals in Mumbai immediately, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said in a circular.

Source - NDTV
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