Caste-Wise Corona Quarantine Centers!

With the rising hospital bills and growing chances of spreading to family members at home quarantine, many are looking at quarantine centers as an easy way out. However, some private quarantine centers are charging high. This led to the rise of quarantine centers organised by some individuals and groups.

Community quarantine centers have sprung up of late in AP. Caste-wise quarantine centers are being set up and run by their community groups to offer better services to their community people at decent costs. Reddy-Quarantine Center, Kamma-Quarantine Center, Kapu-Quarantine Center, Raju-Quarantine Centers et al have been set up in various districts. However, these are not official caste-wise quarantine centers as the government has no clue on them. But they admit Covid patients based on referrals of their community people. All the admissions happen through oral recommendations.

Meanwhile, this practice is not just confined to AP. Several other states have this type of community-wise quarantine centers. This trend has first started up in the North. Where the likes of Agarwals, Jains and others have set up quarantine centers and even providing facilities like Oxygen cylinders at reasonable cost to their community people, this has also now spread to the South now.

While this type of caste division and community division is alarming and worrying, many others say that these are benefiting some sections of people who are getting benefits at competitive prices when compared to the private hospitals that are levying exorbitant prices for special services other than Covid treatment.