TS govt. guidelines on entry of COVID patients strictly enforced by police

Ambulances from A.P. not allowed to enter at check posts in erstwhile Nalgonda district

Dozens of vehicles, including ambulances, from Andhra Pradesh were stuck up at the entry points along the inter-State borders shared by the erstwhile composite Nalgonda district with Andhra Pradesh as the police enforced stricter curbs on the inter-State movement of vehicles on Friday. Several ambulances headed to Hyderabad from Andhra Pradesh were turned away by the police at the Ramapuram border point in Suryapet district on Friday morning after the crew reportedly failed to produce the hospital appointment documents and authorisation passes from the COVID control rooms as mandated by the Telangana government. Some emergency vehicles carrying COVID-19 patients and others in need of emergency medicare from Andhra Pradesh to Hyderabad had to return back midway from the border points near Ramapuram, Wadapalli and Nagarjunasagar in the old undivided Nalgonda district, sources said.