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| Travelers allege mismanagement, lack of facilities at Sunderbani | | | Avinash Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, May 13: Hundreds of travelers, including students and labourers who arrived in their native areas on Wednesday complained of poor arrangements at the quarantine centers where they have been lodged.
Stranded persons arriving at quarantine centers in Sunderbani town in district Rajouri are also complaining about lack of facilities.
“We were forced to sit on road from 6pm to 12 pm after we arrived on Tuesday”, alleged a group of students who had reached Sunderbani from different States through specials trains. “We remained unattended here for around six hours that too without water and food, the local administration made us to sit on the road”, angry students, who had captured photographs and videos of their miseries told Early Times over phone.
“Today, we were taken to district Hospital Rajouri for our clinical testing without taking care of social distancing in vehicles, in violation of travel advisories issued by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare”, the students alleged, adding that they were lodged in unhygienic quarantine centers in Sunderbani.
They alleged that they were not properly screened at their arrival in Jammu, but were allowed to leave for their native areas. “We were halted at Sunderbani and sent to local quarantine centres. As many as 50 to 60 persons have been bundled in an unhygienic room. We have been kept with those who have returned from different parts of country. It seems we may die of filthy halls with mosquitoes and the reptiles,” a labourer, who returned from Mumbai told ET over phone.
“It is not like everyone who returned from outside is infected, but they are treating us as COVID-19 suspects and are treating us in a very inhuman way here,” another labourer said.
“There are around 70 thousand cases out of 130 cr Indians, we are taking care and following advisories being issued by the government time to time but we have been unnecessarily caged here”, they said, adding that as rules (guidelines) isolation and hygiene are basic preventive measures to be taken to avoid spread of COVID-19 but no such measures are being taken by the administration here.
It has been learnt from the reliable sources that the local administration at Sunderbani didn’t allow inter-district movement of individuals, despite they having valid movement passes.
ADC Sunderbani, Vinod Kumar when contacted said, “These people keep talking nonsense all the time.” |
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