In two major developments that would help the State Government tackle the coronavirus situation in the State during the lockdown-four period, the State-run MMRDA on Monday handed over the 1026-bed Covid Care Centre-2 (CCC-2) facility created on the MMRDA ground at Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) here, even as eight companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) arrived in Maharashtra to help the State police in enforcing the lockdown-4 strictly in the coming days.
Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) Commissioner R A Rajeev handed over the new CCC-2 with quarantine and isolation facility with treatment for non-critical Covid-19 patients at BKC exhibition ground in north-central Mumbai to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal in the presence of chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, senior Congress minister Balasaheb Thorat and other senior ministers and bureaucrats on Monday.
At the new facility, there are in all 1,026 beds. In each of the 18 wards created at this facility, there are in all 504 cots (28 cots in each ward) with Oxygen supply facility to the patients. In nine other wards, there are in all 522 cots ( 58 cots in each ward). In addition, there are 10 ICU mobile beds.
The BMC has appointed 13 doctors, eight nurses and 14 ward to manage this CCC-2 facility at MMRDA ground.
Spread over 1 lakh sq feet, the Covid Care Centre-2 has been created at the MMRDA ground in a record 14 days. The work, which started on May 2, was completed on May 16.
Jupiter Hospital, Thane as a part of its CSR activity has provided the design and technical guidance for the construction of this hospital, while MMRDA has borne the cost of constructing the hospital. It will be a full-fledged hospital with the facilities of pathology labs to conduct general blood tests of patients.
Meanwhile, eight companies of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) arrived in Maharashtra on Monday to assist the state police with the Covid-19 duties
Announcing this, Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said here: “While 5 companies – each with 1 20 highly-trained personnel - will be deployed in from tomorrow, five others shall be spread across the State.”
The CAPF reinforcements for Mumbai –comprising three companies from the CISF, and 2 from CRPF will be part of 20 companies sought by the Maharashtra government for the deployment during Ramzan Eid and the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
The CAPF personnel will assist the local police with crowd control and physical distancing measures to be implemented during the Lockdown 4.0 which began in the state on Monday.
The deployment of CAPF personnel will enable the Mumbai Police and the local police in other parts of the state to get the much-needed break for the State police personnel who have been working overtime for the past two months.
As of now, more than 1,200 state police personnel, including around 600 in Mumbai have tested positive for Covid-19 positive. Nine police personnel have so far succumbed to Covid-19.
Meanwhile, following the arrival of CAPF companies in the state, the State government has made deployment of Rapid Action Force companies in Pune, Aurangabad, Nashik, Amravati.