The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will spend Rs 104.89 crore on operation and maintenance of lately set up Covid-19 jumbo centers. In expectations of third wave of Covid-19, the civic body has made positioning of 5,908 beds including 738 ICU beds and 200 for pediatric patients in five jumbo centers. While work of three new jumbo Covid-19 centers at Malad, Kanjurmarg and Somaiya Ground in Sion has been finished recently, the BMC has generated 100 ICU beds in BKC jumbo center and 730 beds in Dahisar. Covid centers at Malad, Kanjurmarg and Sion was constructed by Mumbai Metropolitan Region Authority (MMRDA), Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) and CIDCO respectively in the last three months.
