With the number of vacant ICU beds reducing almost daily and COVID-19 infections increasing, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation wants to tweak it’s norms of treating and discharging patients admitted to intensive care units. As of now, 40-odd ICU beds are available in the city.

The BMC has decided that instead of waiting for patients’ negative reports before shifting them out of ICU, it would move them to a general bed once their condition has stabilised. The civic body had been hearing complaints about patients being kept in ICU beds even after having stabilised, because their negative COVID-19 reports are awaited.