Covid NEWS | Now Kerala hotels to become wards for mild Covid patients
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The KTDC is floating an Expression of Interest to convert its properties within the state for use by private hospitals to use as facilities for mild Covid patients.
The Grand Chaitram in Thiruvananthapuram is part of the pilot project of KTDC for converting hotels into Covid care facilities and associating with private hotels for patients not needing ICUs.
Given the severe stress being felt across India due to the debilitating fallout of the deadly second wave of the Covid-19 virus and the shortage of rooms to treat even moderate to mild symptomatic patients, the Kerala Tourism Development Corporation(KTDC), a government undertaking under the Kerala Tourism Department, has decided to float an Expression of Interest (EoI) which would let its hotels E converted into Covid care facilities for use by private hospitals in the state, according to an announcement made by the chief minister, Pinarayi Vijayan.
According to a senior official of the corporation, the EoI will be floated today for private hospitals to participate in. He said that on a pilot basis, the KTDC properties of Grand Chaitram in Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi International Marina House, Ernakulamwill be used as Covid care centers private hospitals.
The idea is to ease the pressure on private hospitals for quarantine and covid care facilities from the “A-level” patients who do not require ICU or other health support systems, he added.
Kerala is one of the states where the Covid positivity rate is consistently above the 20 percent mark. The state had imposed additional restrictions almost equal to a lockdown till May 9 to contain the infection rate. KTDC has over 28 hotels in the luxury, budget as well as easy hotel category
