Country's largest COVID-19 care facility set up in Ahmedabad

The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has set up the country’s largest COVID-19 care facility with around 2,000 beds, library and space for yoga and indoor games.

The facility that has been set up in a hostel complex near the Gujarat University will ease the load of patients on government hospitals, officials said on Tuesday (April 14). Ahmedabad alone accounts for 346 of the total 617 COVID-19 positive cases in Gujarat.

“We can accommodate 2,000 patients in this facility, which is the first and the largest COVID Care Centre in the country,” said Ahmedabad Municipal Commissioner Vijay Nehra. He said each patient to be admitted at the care centre will be provided with a bed and a separate kit containing essentials like a soap, a toothbrush and a bucket.

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Also, medical teams at the facility will examine patients twice a day, he said. “Members of the teams will also be tested once in every 14 days for the infection,” Nehra said.

“Patients will be served food cooked outside the care centre. They will be checked twice in a day. For any emergency, one ambulance has been stationed at the care centre,” said Deputy Municipal Commissioner Nitin Sangwan.