At Mulund, patients were shifted to M T Agrawal Hospital, Mithaghar centre, the Octroi naka centre and Bhabha Hospital in Kurla. Kishore Gandhi, assistant municipal commissioner of the BMC’s T Ward, said, “We have stopped admitting new patients. Those shifted to nearby hospitals will be treated there and will not be brought back to the facility,” he said. There were 167 Covid patients in Mulund, with plans to discharge 50 recovered patients in a day or two. Calling it a good decision, Mihir Kotecha, the local MLA, said, “Planning is needed at such times, rather than waiting for a disaster to happen and then setting up an inquiry committee.”
As many as 580 Covid-19 patients were shifted from three jumbo Covid centres to various hospitals by late Saturday as the city and its adjoining areas are expected to be buffeted by gusty winds of up to 80kmph and heavy showers when Cyclone Tauktae passes by in the Arabian Sea on Sunday.
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MUMBAI: To tackle the acute oxygen shortage that has hit hospitals, BMC stationed six quick response vehicles (QRV) near some hospitals and civic wards. Each vehicle is equipped with 25 cylinders of 7,000 litres each, besides other material. Civic officers will be present to monitor operations. The vehicles are stationed near BMC’s jumbo facility at Richardson and Crudas in Byculla, Poddar Hospital in Worli, Bandra’s KB Bhabha Hospital, Shatabdi Hospital in Kandivali and near the ward offices in Kurla and Bhandup.
Additional municipal commissioner P Velrasu said Mumbai needs around 250 MT of oxygen daily. “These emergency response vehicles are mostly for the smaller medical facilities where oxygen may get exhausted faster,” he said. On Sunday, a team of civic engineers also brought 150 tonnes of oxygen to the city so that refilling could start wherever required. Velrasu said oxygen was brought from the JSW steel plant in Pen taluka and also from Jamnag
Oxygen cylinders being refilled at private gas company for patients
MUMBAI: Shortage of oxygen hit the city’s public health system hard as 168 Covid-19 patients including 40 critical ones from six municipal hospitals were shifted in an overnight operation to bigger facilities between Friday evening and Saturday morning.
The six include Bhabha hospitals (Bandra and Kurla), Bhagwati Hospital (Borivli), Shatabdi Hospital (Govandi), M T Agarwal Hospital (Mulund) and Trauma Hospital (Jogeshwari). Messages were sent on various NGO helplines to get cardiac ambulances to move the patients; finally, each ambulance had to make multiple trips.
“In six to eight hours, we completed the transfers,” said BMC additional municipal commissioner Suresh Kakani. The supply in the city was disrupted for a few days due to a mishap in one of the plants.