Mosque turned into quarantine centre for COVID-19 patients

In wake of coronavirus outbreak, a Pune mosque has been turned into a quarantine centre for COVID-19 patients.

The 9,000 square feet hall on the first floor of mosque has a capacity for 80 beds has been turned into a quarantine centre, informed P A Inamdar, chairman of Maharashtra Cosmopolitan and Education Society (MCES).

The officials of the Campus have offered the facility to the district administration who is yet to decide on the same.

Inamdar said, “We have obtained required permission from the administration and the first floor is ready for use as a quarantine facility. Our trust will also provide food to patients who will be here.”

“We are contributing whatever we can towards helping the state government in combating the Covid-19 pandemic. The mosque has all the facilities like beds, toilets, fans, electricity and other essentials needed for housing Covid-19 patients,” he said.

”If more space is required for patients here it can be handed over to the administration,” Inamdar said.

8590 positive cases of coronavirus have been reported in Maharashtra so far.

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