In an attempt to combat the coronavirus outbreak, the Mira Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC)-run Pandit Bhimsen Joshi Civic Hospital has been turned into a 100-bed isolation facility with immediate effect.
MBMC Commissioner Chandrakant Dongre aid that previously, the civic body had set up a 40-bed ward at the hospital but with the increase in the number of cases, now it has been upgraded to a 100-bed isolation ward to house patients.
Independent MLA Geeta Jain has donated ₹30 lakh from the MLA Development Fund to meet the expenses of upgradation of the hospital into a full-time quarantine centre.
The number of cases is increasing day by day with more cases being reported from around the city. Owing to which, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) had turned the BMC capacity-building and research structure at Powai into a sanitised isolation facility with 100 beds.
The BMC had also decided to obtain 50 ventilators on a priority basis yesterday to prepare themselves for the outbreak.
Suresh Kakani, additional commissioner (health), BMC said that the civic body has also given 60 dysfunctional ventilators, which were lying in the city hospitals have been sent for repairs. At present, BMC has 600 ventilators, which are being used in the four BMC-owned hospitals and Kasturba Gandhi Hospital where the isolation wards have been set up.
At present, BMC has 600 ventilators, which are being used in the four BMC-owned hospitals and Kasturba Gandhi Hospital where the isolation wards have been set up.
Meanwhile, an update from the State Health Department, as of March 31, 2020, has stated that the number of Coronavirus positive cases in Maharashtra has increased by 72, taking the total to 302. Out of these, 59 cases were tested from Mumbai, three from Nagar, and two each from Pune, Thane, Kalyan-Dombivli, Navi Mumbai and Vashi Virar.
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