Prepare to tackle non-COVID-19 diseases in monsoon: Maha told
Talking to , chairman of the task force, SanjayOak, said they have asked the government to gear up formitigation of malaria and dengue during the rainy season.
"Water-borne diarrhoea and jaundice may complicatethe coronavirus situation," he said.
Oak said the task force has also asked the governmentto continue care in field hospitals and four dedicated COVID-19 hospitals till August.
He said the state government has practically taken upall the suggestions made by it.
"The COVID-19 facilities created by the governmentlook adequate. But the virus graph hasn't seen a decline asyet. We want the doubling rate of coronavirus cases to come to20 days," he said.
He said that there was a need to learn from othercountries in terms of the handling of coronavirus situation.
The nine-member task force was set up last month torecommend steps to decrease the mortality rate and clinicalmanagement of critically-ill COVID-19 patients.
The doubling rate in the state is now 11 days. Thenumber of COVID-19 cases in the state till Friday night was29,100, of them 1,068 have died. Of these, Mumbai accounts for17,671 cases and 655 deaths.
As many as 6,564 patients have recovered anddischarged from hospitals.
The other hotspots include Pune with 3,141 cases and172 deaths, followed by Malegaon with 663 cases and 34 deaths,Solapur with 356 cases and 20 deaths, Aurangabad with 683cases and 20 deaths.
In Mumbai,process to augment the bed capacity inhospital beds is on. The capacity is also being enhanced inthe larger Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), officials said.
The BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has beencategorised in three parts- Covid Care Centres (CCC),Dedicated Covid Health Centres (DCHC) and Dedicated CovidHospitals (DCH).
Threefacilities- one in MMRDA Ground at Bandra-KurlaComplex and seond in NESCO Complex in Goregaon and another oneat Global Impact Hub in Thane- are expected to be commissionedin next few days, they said. MR iNP NP