By A Correspondent- The women who were quarantined first at Plumtree border post before being taken to a Bulawayo quarantine centre exposed military brutality at the facility where soldiers and the police are called to beat them up for querying their over detention.

The women, said efforts to engage social welfare officials over access to sanitary pads and even paracetamol also hit a snag revealing that menstrual blood flows on the blankets while they are sleeping.

The women said while they are not given the sanitary pads at the quarantine centre, efforts to get the officials at the quarantine centre to purchase the commodity for them also hit a snag.

Said one of the women:

“… Menstrual blood is flowing and spoiling our blankets because we are not given sanitary pads neither do we have access to go and buy them. The officials also refuse to touch our money when we ask them to go and buy pads for us at the shops.”

Added another returnee:

“I asked one of the social welfare officers to go and buy some medicine for me but they refused… this was after they also refused for me to go and buy it for myself. Instead, they told me to get someone from home to bring it for me but i explained to them that i have noone because all my relatives are far but they would hear none of it…”

Narrated another woman:

“… we are sharing a bar of soap amongst 7 people and a tube of colgate is shared by 5 people….All those arriving are also coming here and we mix and mingle when getting our meals. It is confusing how someone who came after us is let go while we are detained even after completing our 21 day quarantine.”

Added another woman:

“We have overstayed our quarantine but the officials here are not forthcoming regarding the way forward. We have been tested but it shocking why the results are not coming but several people that came after us have already left while we are still being detained.”

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