Except for food nobody had thought of any institutional quarantine centre having facilities like playing of music, songs, devotional songs and good of all newspaper a day every day.
At Purabdiha panchayat building based institutional quarantine centre where 13 inmates -- all migrant labourers – are lodged since April 4 there is music, songs, and newspaper.
Kulbul Dubey mukhiya of Purabdiha panchayat said, “Come and see yourself. There is music system here. Inmates listen to film songs and devotional songs too. They listen to news also of some news channels.”
Dubey said one Hindi newspaper is bought every day for these inmates. He said these have a very good impact on their mental health. The feeling of boredom, emotional fatigue and sense of loss has gone away from here said Dubey. In the beginning these inmates too cried for home going but we got them stayed here added Dubey.
On Friday SDPO Sadar Sandip Kumar Gupta, officer in charge of Chainpur police station Sunit Kumar and a host of other officials reached this centre only to find these things available there. Gupta said, “I was too amused to find music, song and newspaper here. It is really a very encouraging thing that this mukhiya has done. I wish other mukhiyas should also take a leaf from Kulbul Dubey.” OC Sunit Kumar said, “The cleanliness and quality of food here also speak high here and credit for it goes to the mukhiya Kulbul Dubey.”
Gupta said this innovative idea should be spread out much faster so that other mukhiyas having institutional quarantine centres go for these things.
Sources said there is one centre where the quarantine centre was locked from inside while inmates were inside at Saguna under Paton police station where after police intervention things here looked up but this Purabdiha institutional quarantine centre is a classic example of comfort both mental and physical for the inmates herewhohave come from their work places in Chhatisgarh, Raipur, Macluskeiganj etc.
Mukhiya Dubey said the inmates here are of all communities Muslims, Tribal and Dalit but no where there is any wedge among them.
Gupta said, “I saw them and have this instant feeling that these people here live like a family who are emotionally tied to each other as each one has one aim test negative and remain healthy and after completion of quarantine period join families .”
SP Ajay Linda has asked his SDPOs to make a whirl wind tour of such quarantine centres in their respective areas as he said he himself hops from one centre to another to see how things are going there.
DC Shantanu Kr Agrahari and his team too are out taking stock of these centres where administrative whip is flaunted at some centres for improving services there said sources.