Mumbai: Work of 1,000-bed facility for serious Covid patients begins

MUMBAI: The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has begun base work and ground levelling of Phase II comprising of an additional 1,000-bed facility (BKC) for treatment of serious coronavirus patients at Bandra Kurla Complex.
The facility will be constructed a little ahead of the existing Phase I of the Covid-19 care centre, which was handed over to the BMC on Monday.
MMRDA spokesperson said, "The Phase II of the hospital will have 100 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) facility beds, while the other 900 beds will be divided into oxygen and non-oxygen facility equally."
The Phase II facility will be treating critical symptomatic patients, the spokesperson added.