Nitesh Rane tweeted videos showing damage to a makeshift COVID-19 hospital.
Mumbai:
On Wednesday, BJP MP Nitesh Rane tweeted videos showing damage to a makeshift COVID-19 hospital in the BKC region of Mumbai due to Cyclone “ Nisarga ”, but authorities said the structure was intact.
Built by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), the 1,000-bed hospital at the Bandra-Kurla complex (BKC) is managed by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
Some 250 coronavirus patients, who are treated there, were temporarily transferred to other facilities as a precaution in the face of the threat of a cyclone on Tuesday.
Tweeting three videos allegedly showing water inside the makeshift facility, damaged sidewalls and a collapsed sheet metal wall, Rane said: “BKC’s Jumbo isolation center goes down the drain in just a few hours. “
He also demanded a probe.
Another BJP leader and former deputy Kirit Somaiya said in the very first rain that the state of the hospital had worsened and that “the Corona hospital of Thackeray Sarkar at BKC was closed”.
“Everyone knows about the Mumbai rain, but then why this” contract “was given. We ask the MMRDA to disclose the details of the costs, the contractors, the consultant. Who will accept responsibility?” Said Mr. Somaiya.
The MMRDA, however, claimed that the hospital had suffered no damage and also resumed construction work on the second facility.
“After #CycloneNisarg, work resumes for the second Covid facility at BKC. Nothing happened to Covid 1 and 2 hospitals during the cyclone, but as a precaution, the patients were moved,” tweeted the MMRDA.
A senior BMC official said that out of 246 patients being treated in the makeshift establishment, 225 were transferred to the NSCI exhibition center in Worli and the remaining patients were transferred to other hospitals, as a result of caution due to cyclone.
The BKC hospital can withstand winds of 105 km / h, but the meteorological service had warned of winds of 120 km / h, so the patients were moved, he said.
However, the hospital did not suffer any major damage and there was no water leak inside, so it can be used for the treatment of COVID-19 patients from Friday evening, after a proper disinfection, he added.
Spray disinfection is necessary because the facility was closed for a day, he said.
BKC is a low-lying area, however, the MMRDA claimed it had taken additional measures such as further strengthening the pillars with sandbags.
