Hotels ready to become COVID-19 care centres
The Hindu
Private hospitals are in talks with hotels to put up walk-in patients
Several hotels in the city are tying up with hospitals to host asymptomatic COVID-19 patients. During the last wave, many business-class hotels had become quarantine centres.
“We have already started a facility in Royapettah with a hotel. We have 60 rooms there and patients are being admitted. The facility is being used for those under corporate care, healthcare staff and walk-in patients who are unable to stay at home under quarantine,” said G. Ramakrishnan, senior manager marketing, Apollo Hospitals.
MGM Healthcare CEO Harish Manian said they were in talks with a couple of hotels where doctors, nursing staff and oxygen cylinders could be stationed. “We are waiting for instructions from the State government about this and waiting and watching the situation. However, at present, with hotels having regular guests, it would be difficult for them to give us entire blocks since COVID-19 patients cannot be housed with others,” he said.
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