The 10 portable X-Ray machines to be used for detection of COVID-19 through lung scans at residential societies of containment zones (CZs), purchased by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in July, are now largely being used at jumbo facilities and civic health centres. Reason: the machines are too big to be fitted in vehicles and also they require an external power source, which makes them difficult to be accommodated in residential complexes.

With much difficulty, only one machine could be fitted inside a larger vehicle and sent to North Mumbai, where it is being used in civic dispensaries.

After the civic body purchased the machines, they were upgraded with artificial intelligence that could analyse the lung scans. While five of the machines have been sent to jumbo facilities at NESCO centre in Goregaon, Dahisar and Borivli, the remaining five were to be sent out in vans last month.