BMC has started preparing for the monsoon by ramping up bed capacity at public and private hospitals When the monsoon hits Mumbai this June, the city, which is already fighting the coronavirus pandemic, will be staring at another major challenge: vector-borne diseases.
Not to be caught off-guard, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has begun preparing for the monsoon by ramping up bed capacity at public and private hospitals.
This, says BMC, will help hospitals absorb patients with vector-borne diseases such as dengue, malaria, cholera, typhoid and gastroenteritis. “The upscaling of beds that is going on right now will also be used for patients with monsoon-related diseases," said Suresh Kakani, additional municipal commissioner