Covid-19: Hospitality brands open up facilities to support overstretched healthcare industry
May 07, 2021
Hospitality majors repurpose infra to provide paid quarantine facilities and care centres for the elderly.
With hospitals across the country facing an acute shortage of beds due to a surge in new Covid-19 cases, leading hospitality brands are, yet again, opening up their facilities to support the overstretched healthcare industry.
From converting hotels into Covid care facilities in partnership with hospitals to providing paid quarantine facilities and care centres for elderly people, the pandemic-hit hospitality industry is repurposing its infrastructure to reduce overcrowding at hospitals.
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Hospitality major ITC Group last week announced that it had converted its Welcome Hotel properties in Chennai, Coimbatore, Bengaluru and Dwarka (Delhi) into paid quarantine facilities in partnership with hospitals. The facilities will help mild and asymptomatic patients, advised by partner hospitals, to quarantine themselves in a highly hygienic and safe environment.