MUMBAI:
Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) will set-up a 2000-bed
Covid care facility, including
intensive care unit beds at Malad (W) to treat semi-critical patients.
The decision to set-up this facility has been taken as the cases are increasing at an alarming rate across the city in this second wave.
Metropolitan commissioner RA Rajeev inspected the site near Mindspace. The land on which the facility will come up has been identified by the
BMC.
A senior MMRDA official said, “Nearly 70 per cent of the beds installed will have oxygen facility. Also, there will be 200 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds to treat critical patients.”
Sources said that the work on the site will begin soon and the facility is expected to come up by mid-May. MMRDA is expected to spend around Rs 65 crore to set-up this facility.
Rajeev said, "MMRDA is also financially helping urban local bodies in MMR like Thane Municipal Corporation, Ulhasnagar Municpal Corporation , Mira-Bhayander Municipal Corporation (MBMC) and Ambernath and Badlapur bodies for setting up temporary Dedicated COVID health care centres and oxygen plant."
At
BKC, MMRDA has set-up Covid 19 care facility in two phases in June.
In phase 1,059 bed (including 929 for patients) hospital was set up while in Phase two there were equal number of beds with some notified as Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds.
The facility is equipped with ventilator machines (30 units), dialysis machines(18 units), ICCU beds (107) including five function motarised beds, CT-scan machine, RO System (1250LPH), quarantine beds, oxygen pipeline connection, noiseless session, portable X-ray machine, Electrocardiography machine, Pulse Oximeter, computed radiology solutions and digital BP apparatus.
Besides mortuary (12 dead bodies) has been provided too.
The makeshift hospital has been constructed using German tent technology, and the structure is designed to be waterproof.
More than 20,000 people have been discharged after getting treated at this facility.
The facility, built on an area admeasuring 1.25 lakh feet, has washroom and toilet facilities, besides a laboratory with X-Ray and ECG facility.