To tackle the COVID-19 situation in the city better and ensure that positive patients don’t have to wait long for beds, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is now focusing on proper coordination between hospitals and ward war rooms for bed allotment. Apart from claiming that more beds would be added over the next week, Municipal Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal said that three jumbo COVID centres with ICU and oxygenated beds would be set up in the city soon.

More beds in a week

Over the past couple of days, the BMC has added 325 beds in various hospitals, which have increased the number of ICU beds to 2,466. However, this still doesn’t seem to be enough as only 86 beds are currently available. Further, the total number of COVID beds has increased to 19,151, out of which 3,777 are vacant. In view of this, the civic chief has assured that the BMC would operationalise 1,100 additional beds, including 125 ICU ones, within a week’s time.