Mumbai: Actor Shah Rukh Khan and his interior designer wife Gauri Khan offered their four-storied personal office space to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), to be utilised as quarantine facility for women, children and the elderly. The facility is now upgraded to 15-bed ICU unit for critical patients.
According to a leading daily report, the facility went operational yesterday, in association with Khan's Meer Foundation, Hinduja Hospital in Khar and the BMC.
The power couple had offered their Khar office to the BMC in April. Due to a lack of doctors and healthcare workers, the facility, however, couldn't be acquired until May 29. The work to upgrade the space into an ICU facility began on July 15 and isolated patients were shifted to another centre.
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On a related note, SRK and his wife had made a slew of contributions to help the state and centre government in its fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Through his IPL franchise Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), Khan had committed to contribute to the PM-Cares Fund. Through Red Chillies Entertainment co-owned by Gauri and SRK, had contributed to the Maharashtra CM's Relief Fund.
On the work front, Khan is reportedly all set to return to the big screen in a couple of big-ticket releases over the next few months. While the announcement of a big project with the superstar in a central role is still awaited, SRK reportedly has special roles in R Madhavan's debut directorial feature Rocketry: The Nambi Effect and Ayan Mukerji's fantasy adventure film Brahmastra, which stars Amitabh Bachchan, Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt.
