Jumbo Covid-19 facility in Mumbai suburb a significant addition to city's health infra

The jumbo 2170bed COVID19 hospital at Valanai gaon in suburban Malad equipped with dedicated ICU for children and stateoftheart medical equipment is one of the four facilities being set up in Mumbai to strengthen the health infrastructure to tackle a possible third wave of the pandemicThe facility constructed by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority MMRDA was handed over to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC in the presence of Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray at the Sahyadri guest house earlier in the dayMMRDA commissioner SVR Srinivas handed over the documents of the jumbo COVID19 centre to BMC commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal Speaking at the occasion Thackeray said We cannot predict when a third wave of the pandemic will hit but the threat of the second waves reversal is also thereThe COVID19 hospital has a 190bed ICU 1536 beds with oxygen facility an ICU for children a 20bed dialysis unit a 40bed triage and a 384bed isolation room with a total of 2170 beds the MMRDA said in a release In addition a pathology laboratory has been set up for haematology and biochemistry and stateoftheart medical facilities like portable Xray CT scanner ECG machine have been made available in the hospital the release saidThe MMRDA has installed 240 CCTV cameras and an information room in the hospital for relatives of patients apart from a room for doctors and administrative work This fastmoving semipermanent type of construction is modelled on the one since 2020 on the MMRDA grounds at the BandraKurla Complex for the COVID Health Center the MMRDA saidOf the Rs 90 crore estimated cost of the work around Rs 57 crore was spent on the construction of this hospital and about Rs 33 crore on procurement of medical equipment it said Apart from Malad CCCs or COVID Care Centres will come up at Kanjurmarg Sion and Racecourse in Worli in Mumbai Additionally the bed capacity at NESCO centre Richardson and Cruddas facility at Byculla and the NSCI is being ramped upThackeray also inaugurated the new Kalanagar flyovers second corridor connecting the Sea link to the Bandra Kurla Complex on Bandra east side Addressing the function Thackeray said that MMRDA has found the permanent solution to the traffic snarl issue at the Kalanagar junction and the flyover will ease the traffic congestion in the areaThe MMRDA said it is the longest arm of this threedirection flyover of Kalanagar and it is expected to save about 10 minutes of travelling time The MMRDA has completed the work on the 804meter long arm having the width of 750 meter of WorliBandra Sea Link till the prominent residential commercial and business hub of BandraKurla Complex it said Of the total three lanes the lane from BandraKurla Complex to BandraWorli Sea link was opened to traffic on February 21 early this year while the third arm with two lanes of 75metre width from SionDharavi junction going 340 metres in length to the BandraWorli Sea link is under constructionAt Kalanagar junction a few roads including Western Expressway and Sion Dharavi link Road and BandraKurla Complex road intersect causing heavy traffic snarls The original cost of the project was Rs 16308 croreHowever owing to works on the Metro Line2B some scope of flyover was curtailed and the revised cost of this flyover stands at Rs 10373 crore the MMRDA release saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever