Summary:
Inaugurated a week ago by the chief minister, a 1,800-bed Dedicated COVID Health Centre (CHC) in Mulund is lying unused for want of medical staff. This at a time when COVID-19-affected citizens are struggling to find ICU beds — the facility has 215 of these. The Mulund CHC has 1,560 isolation beds, 215 ICU beds and 75 beds for dialysis patients. But the real fight is for ICU beds — the capacity being 1,738 and availability being 240, and for ventilators — capacity being 1,054, availability being 134. Dialysis and ICU beds are not ready..