Patients in care centre go on protest
The Hindu
‘Over 400 patients kept in the hostels as against the strength of 300’
Asymptomatic COVID-19 patients housed at the COVID Care Centre in the Golden and Diamond Jubilee hostels of Annamalai University, in Chidambaram staged a protest on Monday evening alleging lack of facilities and poor quality of food served to them. A section of the patients alleged that over 400 people, including 115 women, were housed in the hostels as against the strength of 300. The food was not nutritious and also inadequate. The patients alleged that there were not adequate toilets for women. On information, Chidambaram Deputy Superintendent of Police Lamech visited the spot and pacified the patients.
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