The state-of-the-art Covid19-care hospital that is being completed in a five-acre land in Thekkil in Chemnad panchayat near here, sponsored by the Corporate Social Responsibility division of the Tata Group, will be formally handed over to the district authorities by late this month. 

Expected to give the much-needed boost to the medical care facilities for Covid19 treatment in the district, the hospital will have 540 isolation beds and as many as 450 beds for quarantining. Upon commissioning, the district and taluk hospitals, now designated as COVID speciality centres, will be converted back to normal as to cater to general patients.

Though the restrictions were lifted after Centre's intervention and as directed by the Supreme Court, about a dozen people had lost their lives because of the delay in getting treatment. Begun in early April, the facility is built at a cost of Rs 15 crores. The facilities are made in as many as 128 special containers from Tata Steel which are arranged in three blocks. Each container, fully air-conditioned, will have five isolation beds with all modern healthcare facilities.