BS RAWAT

District authorities in South West Delhi have delinked three hotels -- Piccadilly at Janakpuri district Centre, Taj Vivanta in Dwarka and  Pride Plaza in Aerocity -- from the hospitals they had attached to as COVID-19 care facilities due to low occupancy, and some other districts may follow suit, officials have said.

These hotels were attached to hospitals closest to them, in mid-June, to serve as facilities for coronavirus patients with moderate symptoms.

However, only 25 of the total 900 rooms of the four hotels were occupied over the past fortnight, the officials said.

Now, only the Welcome hotel in Dwarka Sector 10 will serve as an extended Covid-19 care facility for Mata Chanan Devi, Akash Healthcare, Venkateshwara and Manipal hospitals, the order said.

The Delhi government had in early June empowered the district magistrates in 11 districts to use hotels as an extension of hospitals treating COVID-19 patients as the cases surged.

The patients staying there received basic healthcare and were to be shifted to the attached hospitals in case their condition worsened.