US-vaccinated couple gets Mum rail passes
Richa.Pinto@timesgroup.com
Mumbai:22.10.2021
Hours after TOI reported that a senior citizen couple vaccinated in the US was being denied railway passes — as their vaccination status does not show on Co-Win — the authorities swung into action and handed the couple their passes on medical grounds.
A relieved Angela Fernandes, 65, and her husband Cajetan, 71, went to Borivli station booking office on Thursday afternoon, paid and collected the passes.
The couple had got the Moderna vaccine in January this year in California. They had gone there to meet their son in February 2020, but got stuck as the pandemic raged.
Thanking TOI, Angela said: “Around 9am, we got a call from a senior railway officer who enquired about the matter in detail. He asked us what would be a convenient time for us to go to the station and said he would speak to the officer concerned.”
The couple needed railway passes to travel to a hospital in Wadala regularly for treatment. “It was a genuine issue and we issued them passes on medical grounds,” said Western Railways CPRO Sumit Thakur.
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