HYDERABAD: In Spite Of the High Court's instruction, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has stopped working in offering adequate night shelters for attendants of Covid-19 patients who are going through treatment at city hospitals.The attendants are instead sleeping on the roadsides near the medical facilities and on footpaths.
Some are living in camping tents below the Gandhi Healthcare facility City Rail station.
While bring up GHMC for Covid-19 mismanagement, the High Court had on April 25 particularly asked the corporation to arrange night shelters for migrants and individuals who have brought their kin to healthcare facilities in Hyderabad for treatment of the Coronavirus infection.
GHMC commissioner D.
S.
Lokesh Kumar had then informed the court that the civic body is completely gotten ready to accommodate the denied, destitute and others in 20 shelter houses.
He went on to inform the court that 265 individuals had then already been residing in Begumpet shelter home.However, when it pertains to truth, the corporation has totally turned neglected attendants of clients confessed in significant federal government healthcare facilities who have originated from numerous parts of the state and even other cities of the nation.
Even more, it is discovered civic authorities have not even called managements of government hospitals with regard to accommodating patients' attendants at shelters located at the city hospitals.
About 15 attendants are living under the Gandhi Health center Metro Rail station.
One of them, Kondapalli Kamal Prasad, hails from a remote village in Khammam district.
He stated his bro had actually checked favorable for the Coronavirus and confessed to a clinic in Khammam town.
Since his health condition degraded, he was immediately shifted to Gandhi Healthcare facility.
I have been remaining on the walkway near Gandhi Medical facility for four days.
I am enabled to see my sibling only as soon as in a day.
After that, they ask me to wait outside the medical facility.
I have actually been living under the city station together with 15 others , he stated.
Naresh, an attendant from Warangal, said he has been living with the destitute near the medical facility.
He depends on NGOs or Annapurna Canteen for food.
When I asked medical facility staff for lodging, they told me I need to approach the GHMC for authorization.
In spite of all attempts, I have actually not been able to get in the shelter present at the Gandhi Health center , he stated.When called, GHMC authorities passed the buck from one to another.
A senior civic official, asking for anonymity, said the homeless do not want to shift to night shelters as they have actually got used to their existing location.
We have actually tried to inform them through NGOs and existing prisoners about the facilities and quality of living in night shelters.
But they are refusing to move, the official kept.
Hyderabad has actually six-night shelters committed to government medical facilities-- at Maternity Healthcare Facility, Kothi (ground plus two floors costing Rs 1.95 crore), Gandhi Medical facility (second flooring-- Rs 92.71 lakh), Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences (ground plus two-- Rs 2.61 crore), Niloufer Healthcare Facility (G +1-- Rs 2.60 crore), Osmania General Hospital (G +1-- Rs 2.77 crore), ENT Health Center, Kothi (G +2, Rs 2.90 crore), which can accommodate 600 attendants of bad patients.
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