With the announcement of Prime Minister Narendra Modi visiting the site of the Morbi bridge collapse and meeting survivors at the government hospital, the local administration swung into action to clean up streets and the GMERS hospital. We will try to evaluate was Morbi hospital revamped ahead of PM’s visit?
What happened at Morbi Hospital today? was it Morbi hospital revamped ahead of PM’s visit?
Just hours ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Gujarat’s Morbi, where over 130 people died in a bridge collapse on October 30, some patients at the government hospital were selected and briefed about speaking with him, and were shifted to new beds with new sheets in a freshly painted ward. Morbi hospital revamped ahead of PM’s visit?
A ward on the ground floor that was empty has been deep-cleaned and new beds with fresh bed sheets set up. This was where a few of the injured, who were earlier on first floor, were kept for the PM’s visit. Some of the bedsheets had markings of a hospital in Jamnagar, which is 160 km from Morbi.
Morbi hospital revamped ahead of PM’s visit?
At least 40 painters worked through the night to repaint the entire exterior of the hospital, besides touch-ups inside the wards where PM Modi met the victims. Toilets got new tiles too.
The hospital has got four new water coolers, too, since the tragedy on Sunday, some of which did not have supply connections.