Over the last two days, several housing societies held meetings with the New Town Forum & News (NTFN) \u2014 a New Town-based social welfare organisation that will provide support and guidance \u2014 on the need to set up such micro Covid care facilities at community halls or spaces inside complexes. <\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Greenwood Sonata Apartment Owners Association is the first to have planned and set up such a facility in collaboration with New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) and NTFN. They are waiting for the state health department\u2019s approval to start off the facility.
The housing society will launch the centre with two doctors \u2013 both residents of the complex. \u201cWe had a Covid patient in our complex who incidentally is a doctor by profession who has volunteered to join this initiative,\u201d said Sudipta Mukherjee, president of Greenwood Sonata Apartment Owners Association.
\u201cWe are ready and will start off the facility as soon as we get the approval. As of now, we will start with five beds and two doctors, while the nurses or caregivers will be outsourced,\u201d Mukherjee said. The housing society has about 2,000 residents.
NTFN chairman Samaresh Das said they have been planning Covid care units and are ready to assist housing complexes. \u201cMany of the housing societies and blocks have expressed their willingness to set up such facilities within their complexes,\u201d said Das.
\u201cIt is a splendid initiative by the local welfare associations and NGOs and we, from NKDA, are supporting them on this initiative,\u201d said NKDA chairman Debashis Sen.
NKDA has set up a Covid war room where doctors and officials are monitoring the Covid situation in New Town and guiding the resident associations.
Debanjan Kundu, one of the two doctors involved with the Greenwood Sonata initiative and was affected by Covid, said that the facility is being set up following the government\u2019s micro Covid facility guidelines. \u201cThe hall has an attached bathroom and separate entry and exit gates. We have planned to turn this hall into a micro Covid facility for the benefit of the residents,\u201d he said.
Several housing societies have expressed their willingness to have such a facility in their complex and have set up teams to look into any emergency situation. \u201cWe are eager to have such a facility in our complex. We have the space and can provide infrastructure facilities,\u201d said Subho Dasgupta, treasurer of Moonbeam Apartment Owners\u2019 Association.
\u201cWe are eager on having such facility in our complex and discussions are on,\u201d said Gobinda Biswas, general secretary of Sunrise Point Apartment Owners\u2019Association. <\/div>\n