NTPC readies its hospitals for Covid-19, offers them to state govts

State-owned power giant NTPC Ltd on Saturday said it has has stepped up vigil against global coronavirus pandemic by converting its hospitals into dedicated Covid-19 units. NTPC has already utilised its 45 hospitals/health units to make isolation facilities and procured requisite number of equipment for the medical staff to handle such cases effectively, an NTPC statement said.

According to the statement, as many as 121 beds, with all facilities, have been turned into isolation wards in these hospitals.

The key medical infrastructure that has been made ready for use by state governments to tackle Covid cases includes the hospital at Badarpur in Delhi and medical college hospital of Sundergarh at Odisha, it added. Korba Hospital is also being examined for takeover by the state government, it added.