Bengal Govt to set up two more isolation wards at Kolkata's Rajarhat for COVID-19
Kolkata/UNI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee today announced two more isolation wards at Rajarhat in the eastern part of the city in view of COVID-19 threat.
One of the isolation wards being set up will be a 300-bed facility.
Presently, Kolkata has only one isolation ward at the ID Hospital in Beliaghata.
Ms Banerjee told reporters the second campus of the Chittaranjan Cancer Hospital at Rajarhat is lying vacant where the 300-bedded isolation ward on the 9th floor of the building will be set up shortly.
Though the hospital is under the Union health ministry, the state government will take the 9th floor for time being and return the property.
The ward will be used for people suspected with coronavirus infection.
Site for the second ward is also located at Rajarhat and the facility will come up shortly.
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