Kalyani varsity opens its international guest house to doctors, nurses and health workers battling novel coronavirus


Biswabrata Goswami

KRISHNAGAR, 2 MAY: Kalyani university has opened its doors to the doctors, nurses and health staffs, the front liners battling the Covid-19.

This initiative has come at a time when doctors and medical workers are being ostracised from communities, evicted from their homes and forced to sleep in hospital bathrooms and on floors over fears they may be carrying coronavirus.

Dr Sankar Kumar Ghosh, vice-chancellor of Kalyani university said, “We have offered 14 rooms of our International Guest House for the doctors, nurses and health workers who are relentlessly fighting against coronavirus. This time, our institution is closed due to this tough time. So, we have opened our door for the front liners”.

“This decision to house health care workers including doctors is but a small expression of our appreciation and concern for those who continue to sacrifice so much for all of us,” said Dr Ghosh.

This initiative, however, has created a sensation among the locals as the latter predict that it can spread the virus among them. But, the university authority has asserted that when the situation will come in favour and the health workers will leave the rooms, they will sanitize the entire guest house.