Dashboard on availability of beds in real time ready: BMC

MUMBAI: BMC commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal said on Tuesday that the dashboard to show the combined availability of Covid beds in public and private facilities in real time is ready and beds will be allocated using it.
He insisted that the city had "enough and more beds", even as a BMC release stated that 96% of the city's Covid ICU beds, 63% of oxygen support beds and 66% of ventilators were occupied. Chahal said the city had 44,000 beds in the Dedicated Covid Health Centre, Dedicated Covid Hospitals and Covid Care Centres (CCC-2).
He said the private sector will add 3,600 non-Covid and over 2,500 Covid beds, including 417 that are to be allocated using the dashboard. Also, in what could be a sign of the days to come, Chahal said the BMC has taken the overall bed strength to 75,000 (including quarantine facilities for high-risk patients) and will raise bed capacity to 1 lakh till June 1 and 1.5 lakh till June 15. He also said the helpline 1916 will be given more teeth by adding phone lines. Following a notification, the state and BMC have taken control of 80% of private sector beds.