Mumbai hospitals to conduct mock drill to check Covid-19 preparedness

Hospitals in Mumbai will carry out mock drills on Tuesday to check the preparedness of health facilities to handle any spike in COVID19 cases Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC officials saidIn the wake of a spurt in COVID19 cases in some countries like China Japan Brazil and South Korea the Union government has issued guidelines asking the hospitals to conduct mock exercises across the countryUnion Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Monday said all state health ministers will take part at their level in the mock drill to be conducted throughout the country at all COVID19 hospitals as part of the precautionary measuresAlso read Covid19 People now reluctant to undergo RTPCR testsIn Mumbai the medical facilities which will conduct the mock drill include the civicrun Seven Hills Hospital having 1700 beds and Kasturba Hospital 35 beds governmentrun Cama Hospital 100 beds St George Hospital 70 beds Tata Hospital 16 beds and Jagjivan Ram Hospital 12 bedsThe staterun J J Hospital also informed that it will conduct the mock drillAccording to civic doctors the exercise is designed to check the readiness and response of hospitals in the wake of a rise in COVID19 cases in some countriesThey have been asked to upload all reports collected during the drill on the Union governments dedicated portal for COVID19As per the BMCs release issued about preparedness of the health infrastructure on Monday it has identified 10 civic hospitals three government hospitals and 21 private hospitals having 2124 isolation beds of which 1523 are functionalThe hospitals have 1613 oxygensupported beds and of those 1021 are functionalThey have 579 ICU beds of which 473 are functional and of the 1079 ventilators 954 are functional the release saidOut of the 3245 doctors 3453 paramedics and 5784 nurses as many as 2828 doctors 3246 paramedics and 4029 nurses are trained in COVID19 management it saidTo diagnose and track COVID19 cases the city has a daily testing capacity of 135035 at 34 hospitals and 49 laboratories according to the releaseAlso the stock of medicines like Remdesivir Tocilizumab Methylprednisolone Dexamethasone Amphotericin B Deoxycholate and Posaconazole is availableThe medicines will be procured and made available in future if cases increase the release said adding that PPE kits N95 masks nebulizers and pulse oximeters are available in adequate quantityThe city has 859 functional oxygen concentrators and 2933 oxygen cylinders apart from 79 Pressure Swing Adsorption PSA oxygen plants of 1468 metric tons capacity and liquid medical oxygen of 268 metric tons capacity it addedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever