LUCKNOW: To provide timely and free medical facility to patients, a madrassa situated in the Old city area has been converted into a Covid care clinic. The charitable clinic at Madrassa Abu Talib in heavily populated Kashmiri Mohalla will be inaugurated by its patron, Maulana Saif Abbas, on Tuesday. The facility will start functioning from Wednesday morning.
Doctors, nurses and paramedic staff will be stationed at the madrassa-clinic which will equipped with Covid diagnosis kit, oximeters and other equipment required for early detection of coronavirus infection. In the second phase, Abu Talib Charitable Clinic will also have isolation beds and the unit will work as a primary isolation facility.
“The idea came from the experience during the second wave of coronavirus pandemic that hit the city hard in April-May. People, especially from the minority community, are afraid of going to hospitals and ignore symptoms initially. By the time they are taken to the hospital, the disease reaches severe stage,” Maulana Saif Abbas said.
“These people will visit the clinic in their vicinity without any hesitation and get themselves checked for Covid if they experience any symptom,” he added.
The academic activities will, however, continue without any hindrance. While students will study on the first floor of the building, the clinic will cater to patients on the ground floor.
“Experience of the shortage of beds and other resources during the second wave of pandemic was the driving force behind the clinic. We decided to use the madrassa space as an isolation facility and started work in that direction. Fortunately, the wave subsided by the time we could get things together. For now, it will start as a Covid care clinic and turn into an isolation facility, if required,” Maulana Saif Abbas added.
