Kin of COVID-19 patients upset over Telangana’s strict entry rules at Andhra border

‘Why can’t the two governments coordinate and allow our beloved ones to travel?’ they ask

The Pullur Toll Gate police check post on the Andhra Pradesh-Telangana border near Kurnool-Jogulamba Gadwal resembles the Wagah-Attari border (that separates India and Pakistan) in Punjab, if the passionate and tearful pleas of families and attendants of patients desperate to enter Telangana to take their COVID-19-affected loved ones is any indication. Failing to control their emotions and helplessness to cross the Pullur checkpost to take their critically ill patients to Hyderabad because they did not have a proper e-pass and permits from the Hyderabad hospital for admission, a distraught man vented his anger at 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 did not wish to identify himself, said.