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Muslims from Mandideep in Madhya Pradesh have offered Eidgah premises to set up a 100-bed Covid care facility. 

“Besides Eidgah, we have offered one more place near graveyard to the district administration to combat corona,” said Haji Sohail Khan to the media. The 5-acre Eidgah and adjacent place to the graveyard which is covered and well shaded can accommodate 60 beds.

He said a team of more than three dozen volunteers are willing to serve at centres set up by district administration. “It is up to district administration to use the space as Covid Care Centre, a vaccination centre or for anything to combat pandemic,” he added.

Appreciating the initiative, Raisen district collector Umashankar Bhargava said he has included the place in his list and will inform them when needed.

Similar stories of mosques taking up initiatives to combat Covid have also come from Vadodara in Gujarat, where the mosque had converted it into a 50-bed Covid care centre and equipped it with food and other facilities.