Jaslok Hospital
MUMBAI: A day after directing Jaslok Hospital to convert into a full Covid facility, BMC on Friday revised its decision and issued fresh orders stating the hospital will continue to admit non-Covid patients but in smaller numbers. Now, 77% of the hospital’s beds will be allocated for Covid care, BMC said. Plus, several private hospitals said they have started augmenting Covid beds looking at the rising demand.
Powai’s Hiranandani Hospital said it had increased Covid beds from 105, including 20 ICU beds, to 125 last week, and now it has increased them to 180 out of 240 that are operational. Holy Spirit Hospital’s Sneha Joseph said that their hospital’s total Covid bed count has gone up to 159, including 22 ICU beds. Of the city’s 20,044 Covid beds, 6,190 are in the private sector.