TPCC: Treat Covid ‘suspects’ better
Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) spokesperson Syed Nizamuddin has strongly condemned the authorities for not providing medical and other facilities to passengers who have been kept at an isolation centre at the National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD), in the premises of Prof. Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Rajendranagar.
According to sources, passengers of three international flights from Dubai and other places have been kept in observation at the isolation
NIRD.
On information, Mr Nizamuddin, visited the NIRD where some passengers who returned from Dubai were kept in isolation on Thursday.
Mr Mohammed Ghousuddin, one of the passenger who arrived from London on Wednesday, told centre at the
Nizamuddin that there were no doctors or paramedical team available in the isolation ward. Those kept in isolation were provided breakfast at about 3 pm and the rooms where they have been kept neither look sanitised nor cleaned properly.
They were not even provided drinking water. In the name of observation, they've been confined to a building with literally no facilities, he said.
The spokesperson said the officials were standing outside the centre and expressing helplessness. According to those officials, doctors are not ready to visit the place and the higher authorities are not giving permission to shift them to Gandhi Hospital.
Mr Nizamuddin demanded that the state government provide medical treatment and facilities to all those in isolation. He said negligence in handling the suspects of coronavirus victims would prove costly for society.