Covid-19 Pune : PMC agreement extension with only 4 of 11 private hospitals for patient treatment 

Pune: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) decided to continue its current agreement with only four out of the 11 private city hospitals working in tandem with the civic body for the treatment of COVID-19 patients referred by the civic administration.

At the beginning of the pandemic, the PMC had signed a six-month agreement with all 11 hospitals to combat coronavirus. However, as now the demand for hospital beds has decreased due to decline in active Covid-19 cases, partnership will be scrapped with few of the private hospitals. The agreements with the remaining private hospitals will be extended as per requirement when demand for oxygen beds increases.

Municipal Commissioner Vikram Kumar said, “The agreements with the 11 private hospitals, which lapse this month, had a clause for extension based on mutual understanding between the hospital and PMC”. After the Covid-19 outbreak in the city, the PMC had begun treatment of infected residents in civic hospitals, Covid Care Centres across the city and Sassoon Hospital.

·         Symbiosis University Hospital and Research Centre in Lavale (500 isolation beds, 30 ICU beds)

·          Bharati Hospital and Research Centre at Dhankawadi (110 beds, 25 step-down beds,  15 ICU beds)

·         Sahyadri Hospital in Kothrud (30 beds, two step down beds and two ICU beds)

·          Rao Nursing Home in Bibwewadi (35 beds)

·         Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital in Erandwane (250 beds and 30 ICU beds)

·          Kashibai Navale Hospital in Narhe (50 isolation beds and two ICU beds)

·          Inalks and Budhrani Hospital in Koregaon Park (46 isolation beds and six ICU beds)

·          Poona Hospital (46 isolation beds and four ICU beds)

·         Global Hospital (17 isolation beds and one ICU bed)

·         Bhakre hospital (25 isolation beds, six ICU beds and 10 beds for pregnant women)

·          Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Hospital (50 isolation beds and 10 ICU beds).

·         Symbiosis University Hospital

·          Bharati Hospital

·          Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital

·          Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Hospital

Meanwhile, to cope up with situation, the PMC had also set up an 800-bed jumbo facility on College of Engineering Pune premises that has 600 oxygen beds and 200 ICU beds, a new hospital in Baner with 250 oxygen beds and 37 ICU beds, and a facility of 150 oxygen beds and 17 ICU beds in Dalvi and Naidu Hospital. The PMC also plans to increase the number of oxygen beds and ICU beds in civic hospitals.