Docs, artistes still wait for accreditation
The Games are only two days away but the Organising Committee is yet to get its accreditation act in place. Apart from the 7,000 performing artistes who will participate at the opening ceremonies, accreditation for doctors selected for Games village and Games venue duties, as well as more than 10,000 volunteers, besides the workers who have deployed for sanitation works is yet to become a reality. It is also causing coordination problems and raised serious security concerns.
The accreditation issue was on Thursday discussed at a meeting in between the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF), the Delhi government officials and the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (OC). After the meeting, a senior OC official under a condition of anonymity stated, “All the medical staff, the volunteers and others who have been left over will be provided accreditation before October 2.” “However, the CGF officials during the meeting had pointed out that they were unhappy with the delay in providing accreditation to the medical and other officials, as till Tuesday there were only two doctors and two nurses available for the Games Village, while the athletes were moving in,” stated a reliable source.
Shockingly till Thursday out of the total 1,882 dedicated members for medical and other facilities identified to be part of the specialised medical workforce for the Games, only 800 have been accredited till now, pointed the CGF officials.
The official documents for availing accreditation to doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, volunteers, massage therapists have been submitted to the OC since June 30. More than 1,000 medical workforce are yet to get their identity card, sources said.
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