Mumbai: With the number of covid-19 infection cases crossing 50,000 in Maharashtra and 31,000 in Mumbai alone, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said late on Monday evening that a couple of jumbo facilities have been created in Mumbai for treating covid-19 patients. “The first open hospital in the country has been created in a fortnight by the MMRDA at Bandra Kurla Complex.
This 1,000 bed jumbo facility includes a 200 bed ICU," said Thackeray. “Services of hospitals having minimum of 100 beds and 20 ICU beds have been requisitioned in every ward.
A 30,000-bed Covid-19 care centre for those patients who do not have the capacity for self-isolation has been created in Mumbai.