The Minority Affairs Ministry has decided to give Hajj Houses to the respective state government for utilisation as temporary care centres for COVID-19 patients.
“It has been decided to give Hajj Houses in different states of the country to the state governments to utilise them as temporary “Corona Care Centre”,” Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said on Monday.
The Hajj Committee Houses to be given to states include those in Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Delhi, Telangana, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Jammu and Kashmir, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Bihar, Jharkhand, and Tripura, officials said.
India is struggling with a second wave of the coronavirus infection and hospitals in several states are reeling under a shortage of medical oxygen and beds.