AHMEDABAD: Long queues outside civic body’s Covid-19 testing domes are back again.
You will spot even senior citizens and persons with disabilities standing in these queues.
Call it one step forward and two steps back, while the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (
AMC
) introduced home vaccination facility for citizens above 50 and those with disabilities last October, no such arrangement has been made for testing.
Many a time, these AMC domes run out of kits and the long wait is rendered futile, inconveniencing them further.
“As there is no home testing service by the AMC, I had to stand in a queue for almost one-and-a-half hours near Vastrapur lake on Tuesday. Around 11.30am they announced that they had run out of kits. They asked us to come back at 2pm but were not sure if they would have the kits by then,” said
Alkeshbhai Soni
, 67, a resident of Bodakdev.
Soni had to call up the private lab to get the test done at home.
Shilaj resident
Gautambhai Dave
, 64, and his wife decided to get themselves tested after some family members took ill with Covid-like symptoms.
“I tried searching for AMC’s doorstep testing service and even called up on their helpline. But I was told no such service was being provided,” Dave said.
Dave and his wife got themselves tested at home by a private lab.
Both of them tested negative but had to pay for this service.
He said that during the second wave, the GMRI-run 104 service conducted testing at home but even that had been suspended now.
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