ISLAMABAD: The Sports Complex Islamabad’s Jinnah and Fatima Jinnah hostels which were made to facilitate the players are in extremely shambles and due to this plight, the players staying there are becoming ill.
The smelly bathrooms of both the hostels in which cockroaches and other insects in large quantity could be seen every time. The cavities due to broken tiles have become the abode of these insects. There are heaps of garbage everywhere and paint is coming out on the walls whereas there are fractured roofs of the hostels.
There are hundreds of bedbugs in the mattresses, provided to hockey players of 13 teams, staying there for ongoing Under 18 Hockey Championship under the aegis of Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF).
The players are forced to sleep in the grounds due to these bedbugs, where mosquitoes do not let them sleep and they have to spent sleepless nights.
On the other hand the trainers, coaches and officials of these teams were provided rooms in the Iqbal Hostel which is in much better shape as compared to these two player’s hostel.
When this reporter visited the hostels many players complained on the condition of anonymity that hostels are such bad shape that they are not able to live. The stink that comes from bathrooms as well as the garbage heaps at different places in the hostel has made many players sick.