Mumbai, Delhi to make use of motels, banquet halls for covid therapy

With the nation recording over 2 lakh circumstances within the final 24 hours, many cities have been struggling to accommodate Covid-19 sufferers in hospitals. As such, cities like Delhi and Mumbai have gone forward and transformed motels and banquet halls into Covid models to deal with much less essential sufferers.
According to reviews, in Mumbai, hospitals have determined to make use of luxurious motels to deal with Covid-19 sufferers with milder an infection. Private hospitals will tie up with 4 star or 5 star motels to accommodate extra sufferers. However, medical doctors must approve such transfers.
The Gateway of India remained abandoned on Wednesday because the Maharashtra authorities has imposed curfew for 15 days to deliver down the variety of Covid-19 circumstances. (PTI)
The motels, designated as “step down facilities” the place minimal medical intervention is required for Covid sufferers, will act as extensions of main non-public hospitals, in accordance with the BMC (Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation). The motels will want a minimal of 20 rooms for Covid circumstances and could have round the clock medical providers together with physician consultations, nurses, medicines and ambulance switch. The hospitals can cost as much as ₹ 4,000 for these amenities and ₹ 6,000 for a room if anybody is staying with the affected person.

The order got here as Mumbai recorded 9,931 new circumstances and 54 deaths on Wednesday.
In Delhi, too, the state of affairs isn’t very completely different. The metropolis reported the best single-day spike with 17,282 new Covid circumstances and 104 deaths Wednesday. In order to sort out a scarcity of beds and important care amenities, the Delhi authorities issued orders to connect motels and banquet halls with non-public and authorities hospitals, so as to add extra beds for Covid sufferers.
Labourers work on a quarantine facility on the Common Wealth Games Village Sports Complex in New Delhi. (Express Photo: Praveen Khanna)
While 23 non-public hospitals have been linked with motels and banquets, 5 Delhi authorities hospitals have been hooked up with banquet halls. The motels embrace Seven Seas Hotel, Caspia Hotel Fraser Suites, Mayur Vihar, Hotel Surya, Park Inn by Radisson Lajpat Nagar IV and Crowne Plaza Hotel. After these additions, round 2,900 mode beds might be accessible for Covid sufferers. Hotels and banquet halls could have the ability to manage oxygen to sufferers. Rs 5,000 per day per room might be charged by five-star motels. The quantity is Rs 4,000 in case of four-star motels.