INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Vijayawada: High tension prevailed on the inter-state border as Telangana state police declined entry to ambulances from Andhra Pradesh
carrying Covid-19 patients to hospitals in Hyderabad, starting Sunday night
Just those with beds booked in Hyderabad hospitals were enabled to proceed.The Telangana state federal government is learnt to have issued
instructions to the police to not enable ambulances bring contaminated patients from AP to cross the border and reach Hyderabad for medical
Accordingly, from 8 pm on Sunday, the police along the borders began stopping all ambulances from AP looking for entry to TS
Source stated that the Telangana state federal government was aware that infected patients who are critically ill in AP are choosing to
reach Hyderabad for better medical care in top corporate medical facilities
However, those among them who stop working to get a bed allotment in Hyderabad healthcare facilities are moving from one health center to
another seeking admission and lastly lose their lives.The Telangana federal government is not all set to accept blame for this, and thus
obstructed such attacks through the border to the state, TS reasoned.The Telangana authorities stopped nearly 30 ambulances from AP heading
for Hyderabad at the Ramapuram Crossroad checkpost at Kodada mandal on Monday, and turned away clients who stopped working to produce
evidence or telephone number relating to reservation of beds in any Hyderabad healthcare facility
A local police officer stated, We are not requesting for any letter from hospitals
We are asking for at least a phone number of a medical professional or a medical facility in Hyderabad in their ownership to verify the
If the medical facility verifies it can admit the client, we allow them to continue
The client can likewise reveal any message about verification of bed accessibility in a hospital in Hyderabad on their phones
Else, we inform them to return
We have no issue with other automobiles can be found in from AP to Telangana
