‘Use GBU, inter colleges as isolation centres’

Noida: With some of the societies coming up with temporary solutions like facilities with oxygen and other similar help and some setting up their own isolation centres, resident groups of Gautam Budh Nagar have demanded that they be allowed to run these centres with permission and support from the administration.
TOI had earlier reported how the Gaur Saundaryam society in Greater Noida (west) had formed a temporary isolation centre in their premises where they have kept oxygen cylinders, oximeters and they are extending help to the Covid patients with immediate medical advice from doctors available in the society.
The Homes 121 society in Sector 121 is the latest to come up with such an arrangement or an “emergency Covid-19 response centre” where a group of residents have gathered and are helping out patients in their society with the assistance in getting a hospital bed or oxygen cylinders.
Abhay Pandey, who is recovering from Covid himself told TOI that a group of volunteers — mostly former Covid patients — are extending help to the Covid patients in the society which has over 130 Covid cases.
Members of resident bodies like FONRWA have suggested that the existing infrastructure in Gautam Budh Nagar like the four huge inter colleges and their hostels be converted into isolation centres or space be provided here to cook food for patients in their mess.
Trilok Sharma, FONRWA patron, told TOI that the hostels of the Gautam Budh University and hostels of the four inter colleges in Noida and Greater Noida can be used as temporary Covid hospital facilities and only preparation would have to be done for oxygen and staff as facilities like beds and toilets were already present there.