: Monday, May 3, 2021, 6:07 PM IST
Mumbai: Aaditya Thackeray suggests creating pediatric COVID care ward after experts predict third wave to hit kids badly
Aaditya Thackeray further added that more 6500 oxygen beds and approximately 1500 more ICU/ HDU beds will be added in the next few days at the new Jumbo COVID centres coming up in the financial capital.
Mumbai: Aaditya Thackeray suggests creating pediatric COVID care ward after experts predict third wave to hit kids badly
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Anticipating the third COVID-19 pandemic wave, Maharashtra Minister Aaditya Thackeray on Monday suggested creating pediatric COVID care ward in Mumbai. He met Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Additional Municipal Commissioner (AMC) Sanjeev Jaiswal and discussed the measures taken in order to prepare for the third wave.
Aaditya Thackeray suggests creating paediatric Covid care ward anticipating next wave ANI | Updated: May 03, 2021 19:14 IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 3 (ANI): Maharashtra tourism and environment minister Aaditya Thackeray on Monday chaired a meeting with the Additional Municipal Commissioner (MCGM) Mumbai Sanjeev Jaiswal and suggested creating a paediatriccovid care ward anticipating the next wave of the coronavirus.
Taking to Twitter, Thackeray wrote, As we prepare for 3rd wave capacity building in Maharashtra, I met AMC Sanjeev Jaiswal ji to discuss the measures we ve undertaken in Mumbai. I have suggested to him that we create a paediatriccovid care ward anticipating the next wave and the demographic it may target.
Less than 3 month after dismantling its unutilised jumbo facility at Mahalaxmi Race Course, BMC wants to build its again
MUMBAI: The state government is set to construct four jumbo Covid centres in the city. “We expect the four jumbo centres to be ready by mid-May or early June. We have already increased the capacity of the six existing jumbo centres by adding regular and ICU beds,” said Sanjeev Jaiswal, BMC additional civic chief (city).
Jaiswal further said the Kanjurmarg plot will have 2,000 beds and 200 ICU beds. “The BMC will be the coordinating agency. This will be to prepare for a third wave.”
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation
MUMBAI: At a time when the BMC faces a fund crunch, netas are on a spending spree using civic funds to distribute freebies ranging from jute bags to photocopy machines and idli batter grinders. BMC has cut its budget by Rs 2,500 crore, but corporators bagged Rs 892 crore as part of discretionary development funds.
All 227 corporators get Rs 60 lakh each as development funds. Besides, the standing committee has allotted Rs 640 crore in budgetary amendments based on representations by individual corporators and the general body has allocated another Rs 116 crore for remaining needs.
Despite a squeeze in finances due to the pandemic, BMC corporators have nearly Rs 900 crore at their disposal to woo the electorate in the runup to civic elections next year None of this is for asset creation (read, construction of roads, bridges, pavements). These are funds available for beautification, repair, and welfare, depending on what the politician thinks is
A peek at the Bal Thackeray statue coming up at Colaba
MUMBAI: BMC on Sunday placed Shiv Sena founder, the late Bal Thackeray’s statue at a traffic island on M G Road at Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Chowk in Colaba. While it is wrapped for now, officials said that some work was still pending before it is inaugurated. Some residents have opposed the installation, citing a 2013 Supreme Court order, which states that no statues must be installed on public roads.
Vice admiral (rtd) I C Rao, president of Apli Mumbai, an NGO, said residents had opposed it in December 2019. “There is a 2013 SC order which states that no statues can be installed on public roads. The safety of pedestrians is affected, and when there are events when the statue will be garlanded, the road will be closed. Ours is a safety issue and not political. There will be hundreds of people taking selfies and it will create a traffic problem. There is no space on the traffic island,” Rao said.