@IqbalSinghChah2 informs that the following decisions have been taken by MCGM which will come into force with immediate effect :Nodal Officers shall be appointed for accurate & even more proactive functioning of 24 Ward War Rooms and ...

And jumbo field hospitals respectively,especially from 11pm to 7am.
These Nodal Officers shall function in 2 shifts from 3pm to 11 pm and 11 pm to 7 am both at Ward War Rooms and jumbo field hospitals.
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#Mumbai #pandemic @mybmc

The Nodal Officers for Ward War Rooms and 7 jumbo field hospitals shall be constantly in touch with each other to facilitate allotment of beds to patients requiring beds and calling up the Ward War Rooms, especially between 11 pm and 7 am. #COVID19 #Mumbai

All bed allotments between 11 pm and 7 am shall be predominantly done in jumbo field hospitals only and fast track bed allotment shall be ensured throughout the night by these Nodal Officers at Ward War Rooms and jumbo field hospitals respectively. #Mumbai #COVID19
@mybmc

Any patient calling the Ward War Room for covid bed between 11 pm and 7 am shall be referred to a particular jumbo field hospital and on arrival at a particular jumbo hospital, suitable bed will be allotted to the patient after assessing his medical condition. #COVID19 #Mumbai

This shall ensure that all needy patients shall be allotted beds on fast track even between 11 pm and 7 am, besides the normal functioning of Ward War Rooms during daytime. #COVID19
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#Update @mybmc

All patients calling up the Ward War Rooms between 11 pm and 7 am whose COVID report may not have arrived or whose COVID test is still not done, shall also be entitled for allotment of beds in jumbo field hospitals in the suspected category of beds with each jumbo field hospital.

And on arrival in these jumbo hospitals, they will be put on suspected category of bed, stabilized with oxygen facility, etc and then the COVID test shall be conducted to save precious human lives in this category. #COVID19
#Update
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The list of positive reports being received by MCGM at 23:59 hours everyday shall be supplemented with another line list which shall be submitted by all testing labs at 6 am in the morning to MCGM to ensure that all patients tested on previous day shall start getting calls...

from Ward War Rooms on the immediate subsequent day from 8 am onwards.
Presently for the swabs collected before 2 pm on a particular day, the positive reports were coming at 23:59 hours on the same night and for swabs collected after 2 pm on a particular day,....

the positive reports were coming on the next day at 23:59 hours.This system of obtaining a second line list of COVID positive report at 6 am from the labs shall cut short allotment period of beds to the needy COVID positive patients by 24 hours #Mumbai #COVID19 #pandemic #Update

All labs have been instructed to ensure a turn around time of 24 hours without fail. The labs have been instructed to give priority to swabs of symptomatic patients while processing the COVID test collected under home collection of swabs.
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Certain 4/5 star hotels shall be requisitioned immediately to create CCC2 (Covid Care Centre for positive patients) to be dovetailed and run by professionals from major private hospitals to make large number of beds available to new needy patients...

by shifting substantially recovered patients quickly to these CCC2 facilities to be managed by professional doctors.
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BMC has added 325 additional ICU beds in various hospitals & the number of ICU beds has gone up to 2466 now whereas the total number of COVID beds on online bed allotment dashboard has gone to 19151 comprising of 141 hospitals out of which presently 3777 DCHC/DCH beds are vacant.