‘Is that checkpost in Pakistan?’ Kin of COVID-19 patients upset over Telangana’s strict entry rules

The Pullur Toll Gate police test submit on the Andhra Pradesh-Telangana border close to Kurnool-Jogulamba Gadwal resembles the Wagah-Attari border (that separates India and Pakistan) in Punjab, if the passionate and tearful pleas of households and attendants of patients determined to enter Telangana to take their COVID-19-affected family members is any indication.

Failing to manage their feelings and helplessness to cross the Pullur checkpost to take their critically unwell patients to Hyderabad as a result of they didn’t have a correct e-pass and permits from the Hyderabad hospital for admission, a distraught man vented his anger on the Telengana and Andhra governments.

“Standing near the ambulance, which was stopped at the Pullur check post for over two hours. This place was very much part of united Andhra Pradesh till a few years ago. In this hour of medical crisis, can’t the two governments coordinate and allow our beloved ones to travel for better treatment?” the youth, who didn’t want to determine himself, mentioned.

“Is that checkpost in Pakistan? It is very much in India… then why are we being penalised and stopped? Who will own responsibility if my relative dies?” he questioned.

A transferring video of a younger Muslim lady with tears and folded palms seen making a fervent attraction to avoid wasting her husband touched each one.

“Sir, I had taken my husband with severe breathlessness to a Tirupati hospital. We could not find any ventilator bed. With no hopes, I have pledged my house to save my husband. I am rushing to Hyderabad for treatment in the hope that some hospital will have an ICU bed with ventilator. We have oxygen for only two hours and that too is getting finished. Sir, please save my husband,” she cried out.

Prabhakar Reddy, a affected person from Kurnool, who had a sound e-pass issued by the A.P. authorities, instructed the media that he was ready in his car from 10 a.m. to be allowed entry into Telangana.

“It is hell out here. They are not giving any information nor allowing us to cross the toll gate. I have valid admission confirmation from a corporate hospital in Hyderabad,” Mr. Reddy lamented.

At Ramapuram Cross Roads close to Kodada on the Krishna-Suryapet district border, the identical state of affairs prevailed, with patients attendants virtually falling on the toes of the police to avoid wasting the lives of their close to and pricey ones. The identical was the case on the Wadapally test submit on Guntur-Nalgonda border too.