Mumbai: Mumbai hospitals will use luxury hotels to treat Covid-19 patients with milder infection, the city’s administration said today as it tried to ramp up facilities for patients needing critical care with cases shooting up. Two hotels will start functioning as extensions of private hospitals from today.
Municipal Commissioner I S Chahal said that some 5/4 star hotels in the city and suburbs are being requisitioned immediately to create Covid Care Centre-2 facilities for Corona positive patients.
“These will be dovetailed and run by professionals from major private hospitals. It will make a large number of beds available to new needy patients by shifting substantially recovered patients quickly to these CCC2 facilities to be managed by medicos,” he said.
The BMC added that more hotels could be roped in for the purpose if the need arose.
Earlier this week, the BMC chief had said the Maharashtra government had decided to set up three jumbo field hospitals in Mumbai in five-six weeks’ time and also convert four- and five-star hotels into Covid-19 care centres.