With Dadar's Shushrusha hospital in lockdown, a much younger sibling — Shushrusha Suman Ramesh Tulsiani Hospital in Vikhroli East, has been transformed into a facility exclusively for COVID-19 patients.

Past quarantine
Shushrusha Suman Ramesh Tulsiani Hospital is two years old, while Dadar's landmark medical facility marked 50 years recently. The Vikhroli hospital has 140 beds and is a multi-speciality hospital. Dr Rekha Bhatkande, Director-Medical, on the Board of Directors of the hospital, said that the authorities wanted the space to care for COVID-19 patients. She stated, "Taking up an entire hospital means we are expecting a substantial number of positive cases. We are past the quarantine stage and are seeing community spread. A lot of people who were asymptomatic moved around in society and unknowingly transmitted the virus to contacts," she said.