AHMEDABAD: The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has warned those in home isolation to strictly adhere to the guidelines and avail free treatment or else pay for the services provided by the AMC in various Covid care centres.
The AMC on Saturday issued a list of eight home-quarantined people who were missing from their homes when the AMC health team went on checks. In three cases, it was also revealed that despite being home-quarantined patients had left for Prantij and Surendranagar.
A senior official said that in the last two days, the AMC teams checked people who were home-quarantined especially in eastern part of the city and found eight of them including three from Vastral, two from Saijpur, and one each from CTM, Danilimda and Shahpur missing.
The officials said that these people, who are supposed to be in isolation for 14 days had left their homes either for work or had gone to their offices. There have been instances when people who were supposed to be home-quarantined were seen at the urban health centre. An AMC officer pointed out a recent incident where a home-quarantined person walked into the urban health centre in Jodhpur seeking help. The staff asked him how he came there and after argument when he was threatened of police complaint the person fled from the centre.
The AMC is also planning to lodge police complaints against all eight persons found missing from home quarantine. Also the district health officers of Surendranagar and Sabarkantha have been alerted about about the Ahmedabad patients coming to their areas.