Mumbai’s largest event venue now a ‘contactless’ quarantine centre. See pictures

The National Sports Club of India in Worli, Mumbai, which has now been turned into an isolation centre, was one of the largest event venues in the country with a seating capacity of 8,000-10,000 people spread over 38,000 sq ft. (Express Photo by Nirmal Harindran)

Equipped with filters to keep out fine particles and purify the air, the venue currently has a 500-bed capacity to quarantine asymptomatic Covid-19 patients. (Express Photo by Nirmal Harindran)

Till Monday, there were 260 patients in the facility, which jointly run by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and bariatric and laparoscopic surgeon, Dr Mufti Lakdawala, founder of Digestive Health Institute in Mumbai. (Express Photo by Nirmal Harindran)

The place is equipped with 'contactless' sample collection facility and diagnostic 'self-clinic' (Express Photo by Nirmal Harindran)

All the operations are done across a glass panel, with patients and medical professionals communicating over cordless phones. (Express Photo by Nirmal Harindran)

A team of 10 doctors and 30 nurses from the Digestive Health Institute and 30 volunteers and BMC officials, monitor patients around the clock. (Express Photo by Nirmal Harindran)

Mumbai has over 25,000 isolation and quarantine beds in government and private hospitals and the Dome is being described as “a model unit”. (Express Photo by Nirmal Harindran)

At the Dome, the BMC is procuring oxygen cylinders for each of the 500 beds. With the possibility of symptomatic patients being admitted soon, portable ICU units, and 100 beds in open areas of the NSCI stadium are also being set up. (Express Photo by Nirmal Harindran)

Inside the facility, there are four sections — senior citizens, males, females and families. There’s a fan for each bed, 50 water dispensers, 70 toilets and showers, and four LED TV screens. (Express Photo by Nirmal Harindran)

The Dome is also part of a network of mega facilities being added to the city’s arsenal. A 1,000-bed quarantine and isolation facility is under construction at the BKC exhibition ground, a 1,240-bed facility with oxygen cylinders at the Goregaon exhibition centre, apart from 250 BMC schools. Officials say they are gearing up to tackle an estimated 75,000 cases by end of May. (Express Photo by Nirmal Harindran)