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| JU’s special RAT drive to stop COVID-19 ends up in a fiasco | | Amid chaos social distancing, other SOPs thrown to winds | |  EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Sept 8: Authorities at Jammu University were caught on a wrong foot on Monday, as the special drive to conduct Rapid Action COVID-19 Tests ended up in a fiasco. The exercise seemed aimed at spreading coronavirus rather than stopping it.
According to the details available with Early Times the JU’s initiative to get its staff tested for COVID-19 turned into a chaotic affair as the varsity employees arrived at the testing centre without caring for the social distancing norms or other safety measures.
The first and foremost necessity to check the spread of COVID-19 is social distancing but it is going for a toss with Jammu University employees crowding and jostling against each other while standing in the queue to get tested.
On the second day of the testing drive today, a large number of JU employees again reached the designated test centre on campus and jostled with each other to move ahead for their respective turn to undergo test for Covid-19.
Scenes of hasty employees queuing up in large numbers outside the test centre were witnessed during entire period of the process today as they want to go through the procedure as soon as possible but in their urgency and anxiety the staff members of the Varsity did not pay any attention to maintain social distancing or to follow other SOPs.
“Even as Covid-19 cases continue to rise in Jammu city, employees of the University were seen flouting the safety norms and protocols as most of them did not follow the social distancing while swarming the test centre on campus set up for checking the corona infected persons,” said a visitor to Jammu University.
Though the University administration had decided to get its employees tested for Covid-19 with a good intention but it failed to ensure compliance of proper decorum and safety norms outside the designated test centre as there was hardly anyone from the JU Security Staff who had been visible manning the impatient crowd of staffers.
“There was a lot of crowding and confusion at the test centre. Simply put it was mismanagement and chaos. It was not a proper way to conduct tests. Do they (University authorities) want to contain coronavirus or spread it by behaving in such an irresponsible manner?” wishing anonymity, an employee told Early Times. |
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