Summary:
Many are construction workers who say contractors have disappeared without settling wages due to them for several months. “When we tried to contact the contractors and building owners, we found their phones were switched off. We have informed the local police and asked them to trace the contractors,” the staff told TNIE. The call centre also received calls from relatives and family members of patients admitted to private hospitals in Whitefield. Many of them stay as paying guests around the hospitals and have had no access to food since the lockdown began..