Kanpur: Educationist offers campuses for setting up isolation wards

KANPUR: As the entire country is making concerted efforts to keep Covid-19 at bay, a city-based educationist and chairman of Maharana Pratap Group of Institutions has offered to handover 10,000 rooms of its institutes in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan for isolation of patients.
“We have written to Union health and family welfare minister Dr Harshvardhan and the governments of UP, MP, Rajasthan and Delhi offering that our educational campuses be used as temporary hospitals and our hostels and staff residence as isolation wards,” chairman of Maharana Pratap Group of Institutions Shailendra Bhadauria told TOI on Sunday.
“The campuses have the capacity of isolating 50,000 people. We have already given our medical college and hospital located at Kolar Road in Bhopal to the district administration for a 500-bed isolation ward. The administration has decided to use this isolation ward for Indians coming from Saudi Arabia, Iran and other countries,” he said.
The group’s institutes in Kanpur include Maharana Pratap Dental College and Hospital (Mandhana), Maharana Pratap group of institutions campus and Maharana Pratap Education Centre (Keshavpuram). It has also offered Maharana Institute of Technology in Mohanlalganj in Lucknow.
The institutes in Rajasthan include Pratap University Chandwaji in Jaipur while Madhya Pradesh’s institutes are Advanced Medical College and Hospital (Bhopal).
In Delhi, the group has Pratap International School in Rohini and Pitampura.
“Not only we are ready to provide space and infrastructure, we have also constituted a team of 1,000 employees to assist medical teams in case of emergency,” Bhadauria said.