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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

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A view of a makeshift quarantine centre for COVID-19 patients, in Mumbai on Saturday.

Sohini DasSachin P Mampatta Mumbai
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

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