Make-shift hospital developed by CSIR at Ghaziabad

The Himachal government has decided to set up makeshift COVID hospitals across the state with the help of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). The hospitals will come up in Shimla, Tanda, Nahan, Nalagarh and Una. The makeshift hospitals will have 50 beds and will be equipped with all facilities required to manage the symptoms of severely and moderately ill COVID patients.

CSIR’s constituent laboratories, CSIR-Central Building Research Institute (CSIR-CBRI), Roorkee and CSIR-Structural Engineering Research Centre (CSIR-SERC), Chennai have the desired expertise and can undertake the work of transforming existing schools into makeshift hospitals, and also set up on-site modular 2- to 4-bed transit hospital facilities as immediate measures. The laboratories also have expertise in setting up pre-engineered buildings by way of short-term measures.