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RSS
Reports of lack of quarantines have started coming in from various districts with the increasing number of people returning home from India. It is stated that these districts lack adequate number of quarantines to accommodate the India-returnees.
In Mahottari district, the existing quarantines are crowded after a surge in the number of people returning from India. Although the number of quarantines has been increased to 44 from 19, still the district faces a shortage as the number of people coming from India has been increasing since the last five days. A thousand and 553 people, including 37 women, suspected of coronavirus infection have been kept in quarantine facilities having 1,849 beds, the District Public Health Office Mahottari said. In addition to this, 182 people have been kept in home quarantine under the supervision of health workers. Over 1,000 more have been accommodated in quarantines at all the 15 local levels at the district over the last five days.
Likewise, in Doti district, all the quarantines set up by the nine local levels are filled with people who have returned from India. On the one hand quarantines are crowded while on the other hand they lack facilities as per the government-set standard.
People kept in quarantines complain of lack of water, beds, food and other facilities. It is said benches and tables have been placed together to make beds at these quarantines at schools and in some cases up to five people have to share the same bed.
Moreover, people kept in quarantines have been openly roaming around without safety measures. The risk of transmission has been heightened as most of these make-shift quarantines are near or in the human settlements.
In Chitwan district, most quarantines lack even basic facilities. Local school buildings are being projected as quarantines to accommodate people coming to the district from outside. A decision has been made to build a quarantine facility at every local level ward in the district. There are 98 wards in the seven local levels. Although the Madi municipality has made two more quarantines, several other local levels have not yet constructed a single quarantine in some wards.
There are 29 quarantines in the district and 262 people have been kept in them. The district will face shortage of quarantine beds with the arrival of more people in the coming days.
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