The facility, created in a hostel complex near theGujarat University Complex, will ease the load of COVID-19patients on government hospitals, officials said on Tuesday.
The care centre is also equipped with a library, and aYoga and indoor game facility for patients.
"We can accommodate 2,000 patients in this facility,which is the first and the largest COVID Care Centre in thecountry," said Ahmedabad Municipal Commissioner Vijay Nehra.
He said each patient to be admitted at the care centrewill be provided with a bed and a separate kit containingessential items like a soap, a toothbrush and a bucket.
Besides, medical teams will examine the patients twicein a day and the personnel will remain stationed in thebuilding with an objective to prevent the spread of the viralinfection, he said.
"Medical teams will also be tested every 14 days forthe infection," Nehra said.
Out of the total 617 coronavirus positive cases beingreported from across Gujarat so far, 346 patients are fromAhmedabad alone, Nehra told reporters after visiting thefacility.
The care centre is also equipped with a library, aYoga and indoor game facility for patients, said DeputyMunicipal Commissioner Nitin Sangwan.
"Patients will be served food cooked outside the carecentre. They will be checked twice in a day. For anyemergency, one ambulance has been stationed at the carecentre," said Sangwan. PJT PDNSK NSK