Access To Essential Services Including Care Givers During Covid19 Lockdown In India
Announcement: India to be completely lock down for 21 days starting from 25 March 2020, I was stunned. This means no one is allowed to come out of home like it happens in curfew situation. We are two with muscular dystrophy (high support need) and parent is super senior citizen, and we can only manage with human assistance. Today we sent our attendant to get a “curfew pass” (issued only by local police) so that he can come to our house to assist us. He was denied the pass on account of caretaking of “disabled”. Even I had to speak to the police person to convince that in our disability condition with all three of us affected in the family, there is no other way but to get our trained assistant at least in the day time. The officer denied the pass and said “you can call your relatives to help you and we we cannot do anything”. I got the curfew pass after 5 hrs of wait and lot of helped taken from higher government authorities. This is extremely imp for all of...