Mumbai: In wake of the rising patient load during monsoon’s, the civic body has allotted 2,000 additional beds in all the three major civic and peripheral hospitals across the city. There will be special wards in KEM, Sion and Nair Hospital wherein patients with monsoon-related diseases such as malaria, dengue and Leptospirosis will be admitted and treated.
The civic body has also started training for the resident doctors of the hospitals who are trained to identify the virus at the initial stage, how to deal with a serious patient and provide immediate treatment. Dr Avinash Supe, director of major hospitals in Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said, “We have provided training to nearly 500 resident doctors and equal number of doctors will be trained again in June.
Further, all the three major civic hospitals will be having 250 beds for treating patients with monsoon-related diseases only and nearly 1000-1200 beds have been kept aside in all the peripheral hospitals for patients during monsoon season.”
Meanwhile, the civic body has taken various measures for tackling monsoon related diseases for which internal meetings have been conducted. Following this, water tanks have been cleaned and wall leakages have been repaired to ensure that the areas are mosquito free and there are no spots for mosquito breeding. “We have provided monsoon kits and new stock of medicines to all the hospitals and we are in process of sending more in the next month. Meanwhile, the insecticide department will be carrying out measures to combat rat population in civic hospitals in order to avoid possibilities of spread of diseases in the hospital,” added Dr Supe.
Dr Minni Khetarpal, head of epidemiology cell at BMC said, “We have provided new stock of medicines to all the hospitals so that they do not face the shortage of medicines while treating patients. Also, if they come across a shortage or as per their requirement of the medicines, the hospitals can send a purchase order to us and the medicines will be provided to them within four days.”