People allege lack of amenities in quarantine centres, district admin refutes allegations

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People allege lack of amenities in quarantine centres, district admin refutes allegations

Tuesday, 26 May 2020 | PNS | Dehradun

Several of the people who returned to Uttarakhand from various states have alleged lack of proper facilities at the staging area/quarantine centre in Maharana Pratap Sports College from where they are being sent to the respective home districts. They alleged unhygienic conditions, violation of social distancing rule and improper arrangements of food and drinking water.

Recently, a video was uploaded by a migrant who recently returned to Uttarakhand. According to the video, the toilets at the centre are unclean and the rooms are dirty. Responding to the allegations, Dehradun Chief Development Officer (CDO) Nitika Khandelwal stated that district administration is providing all the possible facilities at quarantine centres.

According to her, all the quarantine centres are being sanitised regularly.

She said that administration provides food to people at quarantine centres through centralised kitchen as operating kitchen at every quarantine centre is not feasible. "We ensure that people receive fresh meals so that it does not get spoiled in summer.

The meals might get delayed sometimes as there are several quarantine centres to deliver the food to but it is a rare occurrence," said Khandelwal.

About the water issues, she said that she talked to the officials of Jal Sansthan and they told her that there was no major issue regarding water facility.

Talking about the allegedly torn mattresses, she said that the administration had provided well furnished bedsheets along with mattresses as it would have been hard to wash the mattresses every other day.

According to her, some people are taking bedsheets with them while leaving the centres and administration has to arrange new bedsheets again. Khandelwal opined that people in quarantine centres might be getting little frustrated as they have travelled so far from other states to go to their homes but they are required to stay in quarantine centres for 14 days.

Khandelwal informed that many migrants who are asked to go to quarantine centres do not cooperate with administration and insist on going their homes. "We have to force many people to get quarantined. I have been informed that when people travelling from other states in private vehicles arriving here are informed about 14 day institutional quarantine before heading to their homes, some of them turn their vehicle back in some cases," informed Khandelwal.

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