Dhubri Gurudwara offers 40 rooms to be converted into quarantine rooms

A Correspondent

DHUBRI: Sikh Pratinidhi Board, Eastern Zone (SPBEZ) has offered 40 rooms inside the Dhubri Gurudwara Sri Guru Teg Bahadur Sahib ji premises to the Dhubri district administration for converting them into hospital for corona-affected patients and quarantine rooms as well.

This was informed by the secretary of SPBEZ, Sardar Kulwant Singh. He said that it was their duty to serve humanity in crisis and need as preached by the Gurus. “We will be highly pleased if our newly-constructed building wherein there are 40 rooms, be used as hospital. We also appeal to all the people of Assam and residents of Dhubri to stay safe inside their homes and keep social distancing while out for emergency works,” Singh said.

Meanwhile, Bijay Chouhan (25) of Dhubri district who was quarantined for 14 days, has tested negative. “So far samples of two corona suspect patients from Dhubri were sent to Guwahati for test, including Bijay Chouhan (25) of Gauripur town, and it is good news that reports of the tests came negative,” said Dhubri District Immunization and Survelliance Officer, Dr. Joydip Bhattacharyya.

Dhubri district administration, in collaboration with Dhubri Municipal Board, has started distributing food items among the needy and poor people and arranged vendors for selling vegetables door-to-door at controlled prices.

On the other hand, four persons were arrested for allegedly beating the police enforcing lockdown in Chapor town on March 26, a police source said.

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