Clubhouses and free spaces in housing societies morph into Covid care units

With hospitals choked for space and oxygen, some residential communities have begun setting up a few beds, cylinders and medicines for members right within their premises

With the chronic shortage of medical oxygen, ventilators and critical drugs at hospitals across the country grabbing the headlines for quite a while now, some housing societies in Delhi NCR have begun to think out of the box and are using their clubhouses and other free spaces to set up Covid care centres for their members. 

One such is Emaar Palm Terraces Select Community in Sector 66, Gurugram. On April 23, the Resident Welfare Association (RWA) put together a Covid-care facility in its clubhouse - five hospital beds with two oxygen cylinders and two concentrators, a male nurse and some