A year on, over 17,000 treated at Navi Mumbai’s COVID centre
The Hindu
NMMC plans to build an oxygen plant for the jumbo facility to make it more capable of handling the third wave
A total of 17,023 COVID-19 patients have so far received treatment at the COVID Care Centre (CCC) set up by the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) at the CIDCO Exhibition Centre in Vashi. The CCC was set up in a record time of 20 days after work commenced on May 20, 2020. The facility became operational on June 11 when 61 patients were admitted to the 1,150-bed facility. On July 11, the first phase of providing oxygen support to 500 beds was completed and by August, all beds had oxygen support. When the second wave struck the city, 75 more ICU beds were added with 40% ventilator capacity. While the CCC has an X-ray machine, a high-resolution CT scanner is expected to start operations soon. Plans are afoot to build an oxygen plant exclusively for the facility ahead of a possible third wave.More Related News