With the cases of coronavirus or COVID-19 increasing, the Maharashtra government has decided to set up isolation wards and quarantine facility at Seven Hills Hospital in Mumbai. The state government plans to allow the private hospitals to set up and run the same.
Along with this, the Brihamumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has also prepared additional 500 to 1000 beds in the Seven Hills Hospital and has asked to initiate additional services amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Maharashtra Public Health Minister Rajesh Tope on Tuesday confirmed that the state has allowed private hospitals to admit and treat those infected with the coronavirus or COVID-19.
The isolation facility will be set up by private hospitals at one of the floors of the Seven Hills Hospital which is situated at Marol in Andheri East. The civic and state officials are in talks with two leading private hospitals to set up a well-equipped isolation facility, Times of India reported.
The isolation facility may be set up by converting the ICUs into the same. The ICU on the third floor of the Seven Hills Hospital currently has 40 beds. More beds will be added to the same.
Two hospitals from south Mumbai are likely to jointly run the isolation wards. The management official of one of the hospitals informed that they will be running the facility and will provide manpower.
The quarantine facilities which has been started by the BMC is only to observe patients and there is no active treatment of the patients infected with the coronavirus or COVID-19.
As a precautionary measure, the BMC has started screening the travellers coming from a foreign country and those at risk are sent to the Seven Hills Hospital for a risk profile evaluation. The civic body has also started testing travellers with high-risk but no symptoms of coronavirus.
The people who have symptoms for the novel coronavirus and need admission to the hospital are being sent to Kasturba Hospital. However, the initiation of isolation facility in the Seven Hills Hospital will ease the burden since Kasturba Hospital is the only infectious diseases hospital with 120 patients as of now.
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