Mumbai: Dongri Covid Care Centre in wedding hall shuts

The BMC had converted the hall into a 100-bed CCC with oxygen facility

A Covid Care Centre being run in a marriage hall, Nazm Baugh, in Dongri, has now been shut down. The furniture and other items used there for it will be donated to JJ Hospital by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).

The dismantling of Jumbo Covid centres is on hold, but the shutdown of CCCs has begun. During the first wave of Covid-19, the BMC had acquired the marriage hall and converted it into a 100-bed CCC with oxygen facility. The Assistant Municipal Commissioner of B ward, Dhanaji Herlekar, said, "Until now around 800 patients have been treated and discharged here. There was no casualty in the centre.

More than 1 lakh people were vaccinated in the centre. After the third wave, there are no patients. So as per the administration's order, we have started to dismantle our setup." "All the things which are useful for patients will be given to JJ hospital. We have 65 metal beds, 85 folding beds, 60 stools, 30 cardboard tables, 100 leather mattresses, around 350 pillows, 73 bedsheets and pillow covers, 5 IV stands, buckets, mugs and other items. We have got the sanction to donate these items to JJ hospital," he added. Dean of the JJ group of hospitals, Dr Ranjit Mankeshwar said, "These items will be very useful to us and poor needy patients will benefit from this."

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No. of patients treated at the centre