Patients unhappy over lack of basic facilities at care centres

As fresh cases of COVID-19 continue to surge, health authorities have set up two more COVID care centres in Tiruchi. But there are concerns over lack of basic facilities at the venues. The Nehru Memor

As fresh cases of COVID-19 continue to surge, health authorities have set up two more COVID care centres in Tiruchi. But there are concerns over lack of basic facilities at the venues. The Nehru Memorial College at Puthanampatti near Thuraiyur and Kurinji Engineering College near Manapparai are the new centres identified to accommodate patients. It is learnt that each of them can accommodate 120 to 150 patients. The hostels used by boys were identified to convert them as care centres. It was aimed at accommodating patients with mild symptoms belonging to the surroundings of Manapparai and Thuraiyur at the new centres. They were in addition to the two centres established in Tiruchi such as the city campus of Bharathidasan University at Khajamalai and Government College of Engineering at Sethurapatti. They have the capacity to accommodate about 740 patients at any given time.