COVID care centres have been set up at a massive scale in Bengaluru. Recently, The Karnataka government on Saturday night announced that the COVID Care Centre (CCC) set up at the Bangalore International Exhibition Centre (BIEC) will be closed from September 15. The facility, which was puffed to be the largest one planned in the country was ceremoniously inaugurated on July 27 and is now being shut down as most patients are opting for home isolation, rather than going for institutional setups.
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In a press note, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) said that they discussed the issue with the Chief Minister as suggested by Rajendra Kataria, senior IAS officer-in-charge of these facilities. A delegation of ministers led by Deputy Chief Minister Ashwath Narayan and senior functionaries had inaugurated it with the option of developing the total tally of beds to 10,100. The facility on the first day had 5,500 beds. Now, these beds will be sent to government institutions, university hostels and public hospitals.
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Earlier in August, Rajendra Kataria told a leading daily, even when they were expecting demand for the government-run CCCs, they had decided not to expand the number of beds in BIEC. He had then said that the idea behind not expanding BIEC is to allow businesses to open up as quickly as possible when they can. Instead, he said the government was targeting idle facilities like school and college hostels which were lying vacant and untapped medical and paramedical college facilities.
