COEP Jumbo centre will be ready to admit patients by March 20: div comm

PUNE Pune divisional commissioner Saurabh Rao, on Wednesday, insisted that the COEP Jumbo Covid facility will be ready to admit patients by March 20

PUNE Pune divisional commissioner Saurabh Rao, on Wednesday, insisted that the COEP Jumbo Covid facility will be ready to admit patients by March 20.

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HT reported on Tuesday how tenders to operate the facility had not yet been issued by the Pune municipal corporation (PMC)>

“We have already received the structural stability and electrical stability report of the facility and it is favourable. The process of floating the tender for operators will be carried out by the PMC. By March 20, the COEP Covid facility will be able to admit patients,” Rao said.

Earlier, additional municipal commissioner Rubal Agarwal had said that the process of floating tenders had not been started because the PMC hadn’t received orders from the divisional commissioner’s office.

The decision to restart the Jumbo facility, in the light of the increasing numbers of Covid cases had been taken by the Pune district administration at least a week ago.

According to public health experts, PMC should not delay the reopening of the Jumbo facility any longer.