Bengaluru: To assist Covid – 19 patients and their families, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has established a 24×7 control room in each of the 27 Assembly constituencies.

The facility will handle all Covid – 19 related queries, including vaccinations, testing centres, and requests for a mobile triage centre, ambulance and so on.

The 27 control rooms are expected to reduce the number of calls that executives in the zonal and central war rooms currently receive (helpline number 1533).

All Covid positive case data will be shared with each of the 27 Medical Officers of Health (MOHs) and re-distributed to 141 Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) for field visits, isolation monitoring, and physical triaging.

For Covid – 19 patients, the BBMP has reserved 3,237 beds in government hospitals, 2,696 beds in government medical colleges, 13,540 beds in private hospitals, and 8,594 beds in private medical colleges.

6,255 beds have been made available for allotment out of a total of 28,067 beds. The 27 control rooms now have the authority to make bed reservations.