MUMBAI: In the coming two weeks, the civic body plans to add 200 beds a day in hospitals treating moderately-ill and serious Covid-19 patients, taking the total to 7,000. At the moment, the Dedicated Covid Health Centres (DCHC) and Dedicated Covid Hospitals (DCH) have 4,274 beds.
Patients above 60 with comorbid conditions and moderate cases are admitted in DCHCs, while DCHs have been reserved for those needing ICUs and ventilators. As on May 10, the DCHs had 3,400 beds and the DCHCs 874 beds, most of which, hospital sources said, were occupied.
At the current case doubling time of 11 days, the city could have nearly 28,000 patients in the next 11 days. Officials estimate 5% or about 1,400 of the positive cases could need critical care support. But the beds being readied are more, indicating the BMC is on a war footing. An initial mathematical projection had said the city could see 70,000 cases by the end of the month.
Manisha Mhaiskar, principal secretary on deputation to the BMC, said the severe beds have been upscaled in batches. “From 1,960 beds in April 10, we increased them to 2,900 by May 1, and 4,274 as on May 10. We are practically adding full wards every week,” she said. The beds would come up in KEM, Sion, Kasturba, Cooper, Bal Thackeray Trauma Hospital, state-run GT and St George hospitals and private hospitals. Amid the scale-up, a doctor warned that manpower will be a bigger issue.
Around 50,000 beds have come up in Covid Care Centres (CCCs), where high risk contacts and non-symptomatic positive patients are quarantined. Additional municipal commissioner Suresh Kakani said another 10,000 beds are being planned. “By May 15, the CCC2 (for non-symptomatic patients) at MMRDA in BKC is likely to become functional. It will have 1,000 beds of which 50% will have oxygen support,” he said. Soon to follow will be the Nesco ground in Goregaon.
At KEM Hospital, dean Dr Hemant Deshmukh said they have 280 beds for critical patients and around 30-40 are being added daily. The Urban Health Centre in Dharavi attached to Sion Hospital will have Covid beds. Sion itself is adding around 60 beds in the next few days.
Patients above 60 with comorbid conditions and moderate cases are admitted in DCHCs, while DCHs have been reserved for those needing ICUs and ventilators. As on May 10, the DCHs had 3,400 beds and the DCHCs 874 beds, most of which, hospital sources said, were occupied.
At the current case doubling time of 11 days, the city could have nearly 28,000 patients in the next 11 days. Officials estimate 5% or about 1,400 of the positive cases could need critical care support. But the beds being readied are more, indicating the BMC is on a war footing. An initial mathematical projection had said the city could see 70,000 cases by the end of the month.
Manisha Mhaiskar, principal secretary on deputation to the BMC, said the severe beds have been upscaled in batches. “From 1,960 beds in April 10, we increased them to 2,900 by May 1, and 4,274 as on May 10. We are practically adding full wards every week,” she said. The beds would come up in KEM, Sion, Kasturba, Cooper, Bal Thackeray Trauma Hospital, state-run GT and St George hospitals and private hospitals. Amid the scale-up, a doctor warned that manpower will be a bigger issue.
Around 50,000 beds have come up in Covid Care Centres (CCCs), where high risk contacts and non-symptomatic positive patients are quarantined. Additional municipal commissioner Suresh Kakani said another 10,000 beds are being planned. “By May 15, the CCC2 (for non-symptomatic patients) at MMRDA in BKC is likely to become functional. It will have 1,000 beds of which 50% will have oxygen support,” he said. Soon to follow will be the Nesco ground in Goregaon.
At KEM Hospital, dean Dr Hemant Deshmukh said they have 280 beds for critical patients and around 30-40 are being added daily. The Urban Health Centre in Dharavi attached to Sion Hospital will have Covid beds. Sion itself is adding around 60 beds in the next few days.
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