Even as countries like Australia and New Zealand finally express their support for the Commonwealth Games, another embarrassment has surfaced for the Delhi organisers.
Close to 200 doctors and nurses of various Delhi government hospitals on Friday staged a walk out during an official briefing on Commonwealth Games deployment that was conducted by the Medical Superintendent.
Their services have been commissioned by the Delhi government that requires them to attend to the athletes and delegates who've begun arriving in Delhi for the CWG.
Doctors and nurses are furious because they have still not been told exactly where they will be stationed. For now, they're manning ambulances that are repeatedly asked to move by policemen from the venues where they're stationed.
Doctors and nurses have still not been given accreditation cards.
Some say they're being asked to sit in ambulances for up to eight hours without any meals being provided to them.
Friday, September 24, 2010
England athletes arrive, to stay at hotels instead of CWG village
London: A contingent of English athletes has arrived in New Delhi to prepare for the upcoming Commonwealth Games and will put up at hotels instead of the Games' Village as it would be "several days" before their living quarters are ready.
The athletes from the English hockey and lawn bowling teams are the first foreign participants in the beleaguered games to come to India.
Many teams delayed their arrivals because of poor conditions in the athletes' village. England chef de mission Craig Hunter also said it would be some days before they move in to the Games Village.
Jason Lee, head coach of the hockey squad, said the travelling athletes are calm despite the furore over whether Delhi would be ready in time for the October 3 to 14 event given the troubled build-up.
"The feeling in the group varies from mostly very calm and collected to a couple who have some outstanding concerns but nothing that is going to stop them from getting on the plane," he said.
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