Portable theatres become COVID-19 vaccination centres in Delhi


PTI | New Delhi | Updated: 18-07-2021 13:41 IST | Created: 18-07-2021 13:38 IST
Portable theatres become COVID-19 vaccination centres in Delhi
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From entertaining hundreds as a traveling theatre to re-inventing itself as a coronavirus facility amid the intense second wave, the portable cinema hall has now been transformed into a vaccination center for inoculating people against the infection.

The traveling theatre was established to take cinema to rural and interior parts of the country in 2015 and has since showcased different films.

Even though the cinema business was paralyzed by the pandemic, these inflatable theatres on wheels resumed with all COVID-19 protocols.

The last film screened in these theatres was “Kaagaz” that was taken to the interiors of Uttar Pradesh this year, but as the pandemic situation worsened in the country, it was decided to convert these 150-seater theatres to Covid facilities.

The portable cinema company, Picturetime Digiplex, had converted its portable theatres to coronavirus field facilities in Maharashtra, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Assam, and Uttar Pradesh during the second wave of coronavirus.

Since then over 5,000 COVID-19 patients have been treated at the facility, said Sushil Chaudhary, founder, and CEO of Picturetime Digiplex.

And now, as the vaccination drive picked up in the country, one of these mobile theatres in Delhi has been converted to a vaccination center, he said.

Established in collaboration with Apollo hospitals, the vaccination center since its operation on July 13 has inoculated 400 people till now, he added.

''While our field hospitals with oxygen bed facility continue to be put to good use in various states of the country, we thought why not transform our medical unit at Apollo Delhi into a full-fledged vaccination center. I believe such is the power of portability and these rapidly deployed medical enclosures that it could change its form and purpose as per the need of the hour. We are hoping to set up more of such vaccination centers as per requirement,” said Chaudhary.

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