MUMBAI, 14 JULY, 2020 (GPN):Even as the COVID-19 cases continue to rise, the patients housed at the specially operated COVID-care centres have not been receiving timely meals from the Vasai-Virar City Municipal Corporation (VVMC), it is learnt. While the responsibility of providing daily meals is with Jeevdani Trust, to have the meals delivered to the patients is the sole responsibility of the corporation. There has been a significant delay in meals– breakfast, lunch and dinner– being supplied to the patients which are of severe discomfort to them and their relatives. to them and their relatives.

Political parties, trusts, and individuals have been doing the best they can to curb the onslaught of the novel Coronavirus pandemic outbreak. Similarly, Jeevdani Trust has been disseminating daily meals to the care centres since months.

Coronavirus patients require timely meals so that they can take their medicines on time. “We have been given the time of 8am for breakfast, 11:30 am for lunch and 5:30 pm for dinner. by the corporation. We make the food packets ready on time. The responsibility of delivering the packets to the centres has been accepted by the corporation,” said Pankaj Thakur, vice-president, Jeevdani Trust.

The patients have cried foul at the unruly system since due to the social distancing norms, even their relatives cannot take food to the centres.
Questions have been raised over reliability and work efficiency of the VVMC and its Commissioner, Gangatharan D. The commissioner has been mired in controversies throughout the pandemic outbreak. Shoddy work in meal distribution has only added to the miseries of the VVMC municipal commissioner. ENDS