Reliance sets up India's first COVID-19 dedicated hospital in Mumbai

In its bit to mitigate outbreak of coronavirus, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) on Monday said that it has set up India's first COVID-19 dedicated hospital in Mumbai. This comes after number of positive cases in India have soared to over 415 with Maharashtra recording highest number at 89.

An official statement by RIL apprised about collaboration with BMC in setting up first-of-its-kind-in-India centre with required infrastructure, biomedical equipment such as ventilators, pacemakers, dialysis machines, and patient monitoring devices.

"Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital in collaboration with Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), has set up a dedicated 100 bedded COVID-19 centre at Seven Hills Hospital, Mumbai for patients who test positive for COVID-19," RIL said in an official statement.

"This first-of-its-kind-in-India centre is fully funded by Reliance Foundation and includes a negative pressure room that helps in preventing cross-contamination and helps control infection. All beds are equipped with required infrastructure, biomedical equipment such as ventilators, pacemakers, dialysis machines, and patient monitoring devices," it added.

RIL has also anunced initial support of Rs 5 crores to Maharashtra Chief Minister's Relief Fund to combat coronavirus spread. company is enhancing its production capacities to produce 100,000 face-masks per day and a large number of personal protective equipment for nation's health workers to equip m furr to fight coronavirus.

"RIL has today anunced initial support of Rs 5 crores to Maharashtra Chief Minister's Relief Fund. RIL has deployed combined strengths of Reliance Foundation, Reliance Retail, Jio, Reliance Life Sciences, Reliance Industries, and all 6,00,000 members of Reliance Family to fight against COVID-19. RIL is enhancing its production capacities to produce 100,000 face-masks per day and a large number of personal protective equipments for nation's health workers to equip m furr to fight coronavirus," statement said.

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Dr. Devi Shetty emphasises on need for 'special COVID-19 hospitals'

ted cardiac surgeon and Narayana Health founder Dr. Devi Shetty stressed on need of setting up exclusive COVID-19 hospitals. Speaking exclusively to Republic TV, Dr. Shetty reasoned out need for exclusive COVID-19 hospitals in order to mitigate situation.

Giving an example of a city like Banglore, Dr. Shetty stated that every hospital in city is well equipped to contain disease and added that if patients are distributed across city, it will be difficult to man situation. 

"Giving an example of a city like Bangalore, a city like this will have a few thousand positive cases and it will require some type of critical care service. So it is very important to identify large hospitals in heart of city, which is already run by government, as it will require infrastructure to man 2000 patients and it would offer critical care with piped oxygen. If COVID-19 patients are distributed across city it will be very difficult to man and y will spread," said Dr. Shetty.

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(With inputs from ANI)