Daijiworld Media Network - Mumbai (SHP)
Mumbai, May 18: Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) will be handing over a 1008-bed facility to the BMC for treating semi-critical COVID-19 patients.
Earlier, chief minister Uddhav Thackeray had directed the MMRDA to provide a modular quarantine and isolation facility. Cabinet minister Aaditya Thackeray inspected the BKC facility on Sunday, and tweeted that phase 2, with 100 ICU beds and 900 isolation beds would commence soon. He had also commented that the work on the 1000-bed facility would begin on Monday.
Among the 1008 beds, 504 will be having oxygen supply. The official handing over of the facility to the BMC would be taking place on Monday, May 18 in the presence of the CM, MMRDA commissioner RA Rajeev stated.
Along with the beds, a lab to test the patients, an X-ray and ECG facility will be also present in the facility.