For many years, the Sports Village at Gachibowli stadium, which was constructed on the occasion of World Military Games in 2007, was left unused. In its new avatar as Covid-19 Hospital, the sports village facility with nearly 468 rooms, a basement and a cellar is set to be inaugurated and thrown-open for coronavirus patients.
Within a month, the authorities have managed to repurpose and refurbish the entire facility and have added 1,500 beds in six floors exclusively for Covid-19 patients. Wherever it was possible, the facility was retrofitted with medical equipment, permanent washrooms with automatic water taps and other modern toilet equipment, which were not there earlier.