From Our Special Correspondent
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Bengaluru, May 10: Centrally-owned Indian Telephone Industries (ITI) hospital in the Krishnarajapura Assembly constituency in the city will be revamped and converted into a temporary Covid Care Centre in collaboration with the state government, union chemicals and fertilisers minister D V Sadananda Gowda said on Monday. The union minister said he has already written to the union communications minister Ravishankar Prasad and was confident of getting the necessary approval.
The former state chief minister said it has become extremely necessary and important to create more and more temporary Covid Care Centres in view of the surge in infections in the Covid second wave.
The ITI hospital was presently not being used and with its availability of vast space, it was ideal for establishing a temporary Covid Care Centre, he said and mentioned that he has already discussed the matter with state urban development minister B A Basavaraj, who is also the MLA of KR Puram constituency.
The proposed temporary Covid Care Centre is set up in the ITI hospital will have ICU, oxygenated beds and all necessary facilities for the treatment of Covid infected patients, he said.
The union minister also launched the sanitization drive in the different wards of the Hebbal assembly constituency through joint collaboration with the Sadasmita Foundation and YAN Charitable Trust.
He later launched a drive for the distribution of 20,000 medical kits in different assembly constituencies of the Bengaluru North Parliamentary Constituency. The kits will have tablets for the treatment of the Covid patients, immunity building tablets, 4 N95 masks and sanitisers, which can be used by even people undergoing home isolation.
MLC Dr Y N Narayanaswamy, BJP district president B Narayana and other party leaders accompanied the Union minister.