Mumbai - The epicentre of India’s coronavirus outbreak

• Mumbai has appeared as the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic in India—with over 51,100 confirmed cases, and nearly 1760-plus COVID-19 deaths.
• With 82,968 confirmed cases, Maharashtra has reported the highest number of infections.
• The public health care system is currently suppressed as the COVID -19 patients pour in, and hospital staff works round the clock.
• Medical care for non-corona patients has been shut off due to lack of resources.
• Critical patients are stressed hard to get beds in hospitals.

TYPES OF SERVICES AVAILABLE

• The available facilities are separate out into layers, based on what symptoms and health conditions a particular Covid-19 patient exhibits. These are CCCs, DCHCs and DCHs.
• COVID Care Centre(CCCs): They are further divided into 2 categories, namely CCV-1 to quarantine people who are high-risk suspects and cannot practice social distancing at home, and CCC-2 meat for asymptomatic positive cases or cases with mild symptoms.Mumbai has 22,941 beds in COVID Care Center -1, and 34,329 beds in 241 CCC-2 facilities.
• Dedicated Health Care Centres are for moderately ill COVID patients.There are approx over 10,000 beds in DCHC.
• The Dedicated COVIDHospitals (DCH) admits critically ill patients requiring ICU or ventilator support. There are over 4800 beds in DCH centres. 
• Mumbai is currently facing an acute shortage of beds and medical care facilities.
• There are enough beds to admit people in CCCs and DCHCs, but the beds are limited in DCHs.
• BMC has directed the hospitals to follow the protocol strictly - if a patient in DCH gets stable and can be observed in DCHC, the patient has to be immediately lifted to make space for other severepatients.
• The shortage of staff has also been witnessed in Mumbai during the pandemic.

MUMBAIKERS SUFFER AS COVID-19 OVERPOWER CAPITAL OF MAHARASHTRA 

• On May 29 2020, Hindustan Times reported that Hospital wards with dead bodies left unattended in hallways. Patients were asked to sleep on the floor until beds clear up. Due to this, a womanwith brain damage died because she was refused medical help until her family could prove she was virus-free.
• On June 8, 2020, TOI reported that an Ambulance in Mumbai charges Rs. 8,000 for transporting COVID patients for 200 meters. Patient’s relative put a video of Ambulance Driver insisting on demanding excessive fare.
• Nurses at Mumbai KEM Hospital protested on Monday demand a separate ward for colleagues infected by the COVID-19.
• On June 9, 2020, BMC issued new guidelines for contact tracing of people who were came in contact with Corona positive patients. As per the new policy, those who were in proximity with the patient 2 days before they turned symptomatic, will be tested. Those who came in contact with COVID-19 patients after they are diagnosed will also be tested.
• On June 2, 2020, Maharashtra govt issue notice to private hospitals for their failure to obey rules put down by the government for COVID-19 patients. These private hospitals are Bombay Hospital, Jaslok Hospital, Hinduja Hospital and Lilavati Hospital. The leading hospitals were found to be not obeying rules with regard to COVID-19 treatment
• On May 8, 2020, Mumbai invokes an 1897 Law draft doctor in its virus fight.Letters have been sent to75,000 doctors in Mumbai with a private practice, requiring them to sign up for at least two weeks duty at one of the state-run hospitals, according to T.P. Lahane, director, Medical Education and Research under the Maharashtra state government.