The firstCOVID-19 hospital in the Northeast has been inaugurated on Friday at GauhatiMedical College and Hospital (GMCH) by state health and family welfare ministerHimanta Biswa Sarma.

Inauguratingthe hospital, the minister said that the GMCH Superspeciality hospital has beenconverted to full-fledged COVID hospital and the symptomatic patients will beadmitted to this hospital.

The 180-beddedhospital has also a 60-bedded Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and some of thematerials of UV radiation have been brought from Canada.

The minister said that the hospital costs around 150 crores and after the coronavirus pandemic gets over, the hospital will again function as a super-specialty hospital.

He further added that the state is successful to treat 5000 COVID patients with this new hospital.