: Covid-19: Mumbai civic body expects huge surge by May-end, asks hospitals to prepare 70,000 beds #IndiaNEWS The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is expecting a tremendous surge of the coronavirus

Covid-19: Mumbai civic body expects huge surge by May-end, asks hospitals to prepare 70,000 beds #IndiaNEWS
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is expecting a tremendous surge of the coronavirus cases in Mumbai by the end of May, Scroll.in has learnt. To tackle the crisis, the civic body has planned to create facilities for 70,000 beds in the cityâ€™s hospitals in addition to accommodating 40,000 people in public and private schools.These plans were outlined in the minutes of a meeting held on April 24 between senior BMC officials, the heads of public and private hospitals and other stakeholders. Mumbai has the highest number of coronavirus cases of any Indian city at over 5,500.Just two days before this meeting, the BMC had dismissed reports that claimed that a central government team had projected a huge surge in novel coronavirus cases in Mumbai in May, touching an estimated 6.5 lakh cases by May 15.The minutes of the April 24 meeting, accessed by Scroll.in, state that the municipal commissioner briefed the heads of hospitals about the need to ramp up their total bed capacity to 70,000 by the end of May 2020, â€œas per a mathematical model which has predicted this requirementâ€?. Each bed would also need to be connected to oxygen pipelines, to help Covid-19 patients stabilise before they reach a stage where they need ventilation.The document also...Read more

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