Mumbai tweaks discharge protocol in bid to free tertiary care beds faster

City's top hospitals say average length of stay for a Covid-19 patient is now around seven days, down 50% from 14-days in the beginning of the pandemic

Mumbai is trying to free up tertiary care beds for more clinically sick Covid patients by continuously tweaking its discharge policies and aiming to have a faster turnaround in hospital beds. The city's leading hospitals say that the average length of stay (ALOS) for a Covid-19 patient is now around seven days, down by 50 per cent compared to 14-days in the beginning of the pandemic.

The city administration and its hospitals are trying to focus on the complex patients more - getting a critical care bed in Mumbai is still a challenge.

Sample this : The city has close to 30,000