Bengaluru. The M S Ramaiah Hospital took the decision after a meeting with Deputy Chief Minister Dr C N Ashwath Narayan, who visited the hospital.
He also held discussions with the college staff, inspected COVID wards through CCTV and expressed satisfaction about the facilities, a hospital press release said.
Dr Narayan said the hospital's gesture to voluntarily treat COVID-19 patients and offer additional beds asked was laudable, at a time when many private hospitals were thinking twice about offering 50 per cent of the beds to the government, despite repeated requests.