NE NEWS SERVICE
CHENNAI, MARCH 31
The principal opposition party in Tamilnadu, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam has offerred the Kalaignar Aragam, in its headquarters Arivalayam in Chennai for isolation facilities.
The offer to provide the hall, “Kalaignar Arangam”, named after late party patriarch M Karunanidhi, was part of DMK’s efforts to extend “constructive cooperation” to the Central and the state governments in their fight against the spread of COVID19, said President M K Stalin said.
Stalin, who also heads the DMK Trust, made the offer to Greater Corporation Commissioner G Prakash in a letter which was handed over to the latter, a party release said here.
The hall, “Kalaignar Arangam” is located in the DMK headquarters “Anna Arivalayam” off the arterial Anna Salai. “I request that Kalaignar Arangam may be used by the government for self-isolation of coronavirus affected persons,” Stalin said in the letter and assured that required cooperation would be extended to officials for this.
Actor-politician Kamal Haasan last week offered to convert a building which was his residence earlier as a healthcare facility to be manned by doctors in his Makkal Needhi Maiam for the benefit of poor if the government permitted it.
Among others, the state government has already set up a 500-bed isolation facility at the Super Specialty Hospital run by it besides the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital here, where COVID-19 patients from the state capital are being treated.
