A group of specialist doctors from Mumbai have written to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray pointing out various lapses in the management of COVID-19. According to members of the Association of Medical Consultants (AMC), unless the government controls the spread of the disease, the health care infrastructure will severely challenged.

The letter, signed by Dr Deepak Baid, president of AMC and Dr Nilima Vaidya-Bhamare, the secretary, which was sent on Saturday, mentioned that there is no real-time data available about the beds in hospitals for COVID-19 patients, and doctors have not been able to guide them. They also said they were unable to guide COVID-19 affected pregnant women. In spite of the government directives, they claimed hospitals dealing with non-COVID-19 patients have often wrongly been sealed for 14 days and even the protocols for quarantine, testing of staff, government guidelines, etc are not uniformly followed by the local authorities.