According to the health minister of Maharashtra, Rajesh Tope, the centre could come up either in Thane or Navi Mumbai with the help of Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority
Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope said that the government was planning to set up a single command centre to oversee coronavirus bed management in hospitals in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR).
The MMR includes Mumbai as well as surrounding satellite cities in Thane, Palghar and Navi Mumbai.
The centre could come up either in Thane or Navi Mumbai with the help of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), Tope said.
There was an issue of bed availability in the MMR and people from satellite towns are coming to Mumbai for treatment, the minister admitted.
A single command centre, on the lines of the existing system in the financial capital, will help, he said.
“There is already a single command centre in Mumbai for testing and bed management. Its dashboard gives real-time data on the availability of beds across the city. No one gets a bed for COVID-19 treatment directly (in Mumbai). He or she has to call the helpline or the ward-level ‘war room’,” Tope said
“But in MMR, I found that the beds at field hospitals in Thane city were empty while other satellite cities were facing a shortage of beds,” Tope said.
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