Thane plans its own Covid-19 dashboard

THANE: Thane municipal corporation is developing an online tracking, management system to provide real-time info on Covid-related infrastructure here, like location of ambulances or bed vacancies in dedicated hospitals. The administration has received flak after frequent instances of patients losing lives due to lack of information on crucial facilities.
Civic chief Vijay Singhal said they the online dashboard would be ready in few days.
Officials said nearly 50 private school vans and TMT midi-buses were being converted into ambulances to reduce waiting time. The vehicles will be fixed with GPS, and will inform the control room about their location.
The administration will also install its system at Covid facilities, where data regarding patients, like real-time data of bed availability, admissions, expected discharge dates of patients maintained by hospital staff would be shared with municipal control room at the click of a button.