Nagpur: The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has approved 12 private hospitals for the care of Covid-19 positive patients should there be a further rise in infection cases. Such hospitals can be brought into use by the civic body sometime after April 27.
On April 21 that municipal commissioner Tukaram Mundhe had ordered 13 private hospitals to be ready to treat Covid-19 positive patients.
In this regard, Mundhe released a notification on 23 April. The NMC plans to establish ready government and private hospitals with a total capacity of 5,000 beds. The room at IGGMCH and GMCH, in the current situation, is about 220 beds.
The civic chief told that after capacity at government hospitals is depleted, private hospitals will be placed into service as Covid-19 centers. “Be prepared for whatever situation needs to be,” he said.
The 12 hospitals on NMC’s list each have 100 beds or more. In addition, 29 more hospitals with a capacity of 50-100 beds have been identified and will be available for use in the event of 12 notified hospitals.
The NMC is also planning 7,000-bed institutional quarantine facilities, with 1,500 beds in the first phase. For 41 private hospitals dedicated to Covid-19 patients, the NMC also aims to alert several other private hospitals for other forms of diseases as non-Covid-19 centres.
