Using luxurious hotels as Covid-19 facility 'advisable': Expert panel to HC

The panel said Hotel Surya has three huge banquet halls which can easily accommodate around 50-60 patient beds and a central lobby which can act as a central nursing station

The Delhi High Court was informed by an expert committee of doctors that it was "advisable and infrastructurally feasible" to use two luxurious hotels here -- Hotel Surya and Hotel Crowne Plaza -- as extended Covid-19 facilities.

The two-member committee of AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria and V K Paul, Member of the Niti Aayog, submitted its report before Justice Navin Chawla who conducted the hearing through video conferencing.

The committee after visiting the hotels is of the opinion that it is advisable as well as infrastructurally feasible to use Hotel Surya, New Friends Colony, and hotel Hotel Crowne Plaza, Okhla,