A group of health workers from Tellicherry archdiocese in Kerala has won praises for their dedicated services among coronavirus victims in a Maharashtra district.

“The district collector and other officers are highly impressed with their work,” says Father Tomy Kariyilakulam, director Bel Air Hospital, a Red Cross Society of India institution managed by the church at Panchgani in Satara district of Maharashtra.

The member of Missionary Congregation of Blessed Sacrament told Matters India on July 9 that 36 nurses have come on deputation from Kerala to work in various government hospitals in the district.
The 54-year-old priest, popularly known as Father Tomy, said the Bel Air hospital trained the Kerala nurses’ team in Covid care before deputing them to various hospitals.

District Collector Shekhar Singh had visited the priest’s hospital that has set apart 75 of their 200 beds for Covid patients.