Chhattisgarh: Concerned, parents seek home isolation instead of government centres

RAIPUR: Parents of the students who returned from Kota after over a month into lockdown, have demanded authorities to allow them to keep their children in home isolation instead of govt’s quarantine facilities.
One of the parents Veersen Singh, a resident of Boirdadar locality of Raigarh, who has written a letter to the chief minister of the state and handed over it to Raigarh district collector, told TOI on Tuesday that her daughter Shreya Singh had gone for coaching in Kota city of Rajasthan to prepare for NEET.The hostel where her daughter was living in Kota, was self-isolated for the last two months and it was difficult for the girl to come out of the hostel. The cooks, who were preparing meal, also lived insi de the hostel, in such a situation, she was not infected.
Singh added that if there is a possibility that one of the children brought from the Kota was infected, then in such a situation, other children, drivers and attendants will be infected.
The administration is sending them to hostels that have marked as quarantine centres, Singh said, adding, that even if one of the students is tested Covid-positive, all the other at hostel would be at risk and it will become a new hotspot.
Another parent Rajesh Ranjan Sinha from Raigarh city has appealed chief minister Bhupesh Baghel and health minister TS Singhdeo to ensure the provision of home quarantine for healthy children after medical examination.
He claimed that around 20 to 25 children will be sharing a room at these quarantine centres with a common toilet. As per quarantine guidelines, the person is to be isolated inside a room with attached toilet and is not allowed to be in contact with others. But, the state government's quarantine centres will initiate to further infect the children by keeping them in the hostel, Sinha added.
Meanwhile, Raigarh district collector Yashwant Kumar told TOI that the district administration has converted Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya at Bhupdevpur as a quarantine facility. This school-cum-hostel campus has capacity of 400 students and only 55 students would stay here. The room can accomodate 10 beds, after following govt’s three-meter distance norms, the collector added.