With Coronavirus cases rising and hospitalisations increasing, need for ICUs is becoming paramount to save the critically ill patients. At Mulund Jumbo COVID Care Centre, only 20 of the 1,600 beds are allotted to the intensive care units. To ensure it has more beds to treat people with severe complications, the facility recently came up with a resolution - semi-ICUs.

Pradeep Angre, dean of the jumbo centre in the eastern suburbs, said, “We set up the semi-ICU facility about 10 days back, as it was becoming difficult to move critical patients in need of oxygen or BiPAP. So, we set up equipment needed to treat COVID-19 patients in about 10 beds.”