Screening of migrants at Thivim station soon

NT NETWORK

Panaji

The medical screening of migrant labourers and stranded businessmen, who are going back to their native states by the Shramik trains is expected to be conducted soon outside the Thivim railway station.

Presently the medical screening of migrants for COVID symptoms is being carried out at the special medical booths arranged at the sports complex at Peddem in Mapusa from where the migrants are then transported to the railway station.

The state government is expected to soon consider the proposal of the district administration to make necessary arrangements outside the Thivim railway station to screen the migrants so as to save time and the cost involved.

With the screening facility at the railway station, the district administration will save time in transporting the migrants from the pickup point directly to the Thivim railway station instead of taking them to the sports complex for medical screening.

“We are expecting the government to consider the proposal of undertaking the medical and thermal screening of labourers outside the railway station before sending them to board train. This will help us in saving time in their transportation. If mild symptoms are found in people, they will be stopped and isolated,” an official from the district administration said.

The Kadamba Transport Corporation has plied over 100 buses in the last three days to ferry the migrant labourers and traders for medical screening at the sports complex and then to the railway station. The passenger fare was borne by the government.