Mumbai: With the March surge in COVID cases under control, the BMC health administration has now turned its attention towards monsoon illnesses. At a recent meeting held at the civic headquarters, it was decided that 3,000 beds would be reserved in BMC’s various super-specialty and suburban hospitals for patients coming in with dengue, malaria, leptospirosis, fever of unknown origin, among others. Before setting up wards, the BMC will first start a monsoon out-patient department in its hospitals.
“These monsoon OPDs should start by June the first week in some of the hospitals,” said a senior health official.
Monsoon wards became an annual feature in municipal hospitals little over a decade ago, and data since then has shown that the number of patients coming in increases sharply in the June-September period. The BMC has 16 hospitals in the suburbs where the load of patients due to viral infections starts going up from June.
“We start with 150 to 200 beds in most hospitals, but there is always a need to increase these beds,” said a doctor attached to a civic hospital in the eastern suburbs. While the incidence of monsoon-related diseases dropped a bit in 2020 and 2021 due to lockdown, the numbers started climbing to the usual levels last year. For instance, the number of gastroenteritis cases dropped to 2,549 in 2020 but climbed to 4,000 between January and September 2022.
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