PSAJK demands bringing back Kashmiri students completing quarantine

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Daily Excelsior
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Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Apr 3: Private Schools’ Association of Jammu and Kashmir (PSAJK) has expressed its concern on the condition of more than 150 Iran returned MBBS students of Kashmir, who despite testing negative twice and completing their 28 days quarantine period, are not being brought home.
The Association said that there are around 170 Kashmiri MBBS students and 60 pilgrims, who were evacuated by the Government from Iran but as of now they are stuck in a quarantine facility in Army Wellness Centre in Rajasthan. “Number of our students was stuck in Iran and Government of India in good faith decided to evacuate them. They tested the students and pilgrims in Iran and then they were brought back. From New Delhi, they were sent to Army Wellness Centre in Rajasthan to undergo quarantine. The students complied with rules and completed the quarantine period of 14 days twice. The tests were repeated again, which came as negative proving them to be healthy,” explained G N Var, president of the Association.
The Association said that only 5 tests have come out positive who have been isolated but unfortunately the healthy ones too are stuck in quarantine in the vicinity of positive patients. “This defeats the purpose of bringing them from Iran if the students can’t get back to their homes,” said Var.
Maintaining that it was not wise to keep the students at the facility whose resources could be utilised to help other patients, Var said that transporting them to Kashmir was not such a challenge. It will need just couple of buses and clearance certificates and they will be in their homes within 24 hours, he added.
The Association called on the LG administration to resolve the issue at the earliest. “Here we are shifting hundreds of persons everyday to their homes after they complete their quarantine period, something has to be done on the same pattern for Kashmiri students stuck in outside quarantine facilities. They are certified negative cases so there shouldn’t be any health concern in it,” said Var.

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