MUMBAI: The high mortality rate due to covid-19 in Mumbai has got the Maharashtra government worried. The state on Monday formed a nine-member task force of specialist doctors from public and private hospitals, led by Sanjay Oak, to finalise a protocol for better clinical management of the critically-ill patients.
The task force will also recommend a uniform drug protocol and work towards bringing down the mortality rate in the city. It has been asked to submit its recommendations to chief minister Uddhav Thackeray at the earliest.
The state government has ordered that chief medical officers of all hospitals where covid-19 patients have died will have to submit a report to the committee.