Boosting the city’s healthcare infrastructure to fight the third wave of the pandemic, which is likely to hit the state in the next couple of months, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has instructed all the Jumbo Covid-19 Centres in the city to have paediatrics wards ready with 250 beds in each of them. Apart from this, even the dedicated Covid-19 hospitals will have a good number of beds reserved for children, who are likely to be affected the most in the third wave.

With the task force still preparing guidelines on how paediatricians would manage treatment in the third wave, a training session was conducted for the doctors to ensure that children get proper care. The officials said that this was being done, as paediatricians do not have the experience of treating Covid-19 patients, mainly because only two to three per cent of the kids were affected in the first two waves.