Updated On: 26 April, 2021 07:42 AM IST | Mumbai | Gaurav Sarkar
Doctors manning war rooms say they get frivolous calls that eat into their efforts to secure beds for critical patients

An official from P South ward war room said many people don’t know that the NESCO centre in its jurisdiction is closed on Sunday and end up visiting it. Pic/Satej Shinde
Doctors working across COVID-19 war rooms in the city are demanding a dedicated, centralised helpline solely for vaccination-related queries to help reduce frivolous enquiries and free up phone lines for people in search of beds, oxygen cylinders and/or ambulances. The war rooms have to field hundreds of vaccine-related queries daily.
Ward war rooms have limited information such as vaccination centres’ names and contact numbers and the period between two doses. File pic