T'gana talks to hotels to keep COVID-19 doctors

April 20, 2020 18:48

As a precautionary measure for doctors and nurses involved in COVID-19 treatment, the Telangana government is mulling keeping them in private

hotels at states expenses in case the situation so demands, a senior official said on Monday.

Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar has issued orders appointing a committee comprising three senior IAS officers -- Neetu Kumari Prasad, Raghunandan Rao and Lokesh Kumar -- to work out details such as number of hotel Srooms required, tariff and facilities required.

This is being done as a precautionary measure in case of relentlessness of the virus spread. The government is of the opinion that doctors and nurses as frontline personnel treating coronavirus patients need to be put in a safe environment, the official said.

"We are preparing a contingency plan. If such a situation arises where we will have a large number of patients, we do not want healthcare people to go home as there will be a risk to their families, the official said.

The committee, which has already shortlisted some places to keep the doctors and other paramedical staff, is negotiating with the managements of the hotels, the official added.

Delhi and Uttar Pradesh governments have already announced that doctors and other staff treating COVID-19 patients would be kept in five-star hotels.

-- PTI

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