MUMBAI: Criticised for the inconvenience that patients face in getting isolation beds at dedicated Covid-19 hospitals, Covid care centres and dedicated Covid health care centres, the BMC has tasked IAS officers with ensuring things are smooth.
In an order, the municipal commissioner on Saturday appointed five IAS officers to look after bed management from 5 pm to 7 am. If required, these officers will visit the designated hospitals to take stock of the situation.
“Currently there is no real-time data available on the number of beds vacant in every hospital and BMC gets an update only two times a day, at 10 am and then at 5 pm. This is so as hospitals are also very busy. We, hence, want to streamline the same and plan to have a data entry officer at entry of the Covid hospitals so that real-time data is made available and patients can be moved more swiftly. We would start the same from Monday in wards,” said a BMC official, adding that hospitals had also been advised to stabilise the patients coming to them before asking them to move to another in case of unavailability of beds.
The BMC has created three types of facilities for Covid-19 patients and suspected cases. One category is Covid care centres 1 for suspected positive cases and highrisk contacts and Covid care centres 2 for mildly symptomatic and asymptomatic Covid-19 positive patients. The second is dedicated Covid health care centres for positive cases that are clinically assigned as moderate. The third is dedicated Covid-19 hospitals for positive cases that are clinically assigned as severe.
“It has been observed that during evening time/late night hours patients are facing inconvenience in getting isolation beds in these centres due to lack of cordination among the agencies,” said the circular issued by municipal commissioner Praveen Pardeshi. The circular directs five officers, Prajakta Lavangare, Manisha Mhaiskar, A L Jarhad, P Velrasu and Jayashree Bhoj, to look after the bed management from 5 pm to 7 am on specified dates for each of the IAS officers till May 12. Officers Ashwini Bhide and Suresh Kakani will be overall in-charge of allocation of beds at night.
Dr Sanjay Oak, head of the state task force, said they were readying 1000-bed facilities at BKC and MMRDA.
In an order, the municipal commissioner on Saturday appointed five IAS officers to look after bed management from 5 pm to 7 am. If required, these officers will visit the designated hospitals to take stock of the situation.
“Currently there is no real-time data available on the number of beds vacant in every hospital and BMC gets an update only two times a day, at 10 am and then at 5 pm. This is so as hospitals are also very busy. We, hence, want to streamline the same and plan to have a data entry officer at entry of the Covid hospitals so that real-time data is made available and patients can be moved more swiftly. We would start the same from Monday in wards,” said a BMC official, adding that hospitals had also been advised to stabilise the patients coming to them before asking them to move to another in case of unavailability of beds.
The BMC has created three types of facilities for Covid-19 patients and suspected cases. One category is Covid care centres 1 for suspected positive cases and highrisk contacts and Covid care centres 2 for mildly symptomatic and asymptomatic Covid-19 positive patients. The second is dedicated Covid health care centres for positive cases that are clinically assigned as moderate. The third is dedicated Covid-19 hospitals for positive cases that are clinically assigned as severe.
“It has been observed that during evening time/late night hours patients are facing inconvenience in getting isolation beds in these centres due to lack of cordination among the agencies,” said the circular issued by municipal commissioner Praveen Pardeshi. The circular directs five officers, Prajakta Lavangare, Manisha Mhaiskar, A L Jarhad, P Velrasu and Jayashree Bhoj, to look after the bed management from 5 pm to 7 am on specified dates for each of the IAS officers till May 12. Officers Ashwini Bhide and Suresh Kakani will be overall in-charge of allocation of beds at night.
Dr Sanjay Oak, head of the state task force, said they were readying 1000-bed facilities at BKC and MMRDA.
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