APC Commissioner Nagaland and Incharge of the COVID 19 activities, Kikheto Sema along with DC and CP Dimapur and guided by police officials visiting the Ganeshnagar QC on June 25. (DIPR Photo)
Dimapur, June 25 (MExN): Nagaland Agriculture Production, Commissioner and incharge of COVID-19 activities Dimapur, Y Kikheto Sema today assured that most of the people in Ganeshnagar QC who are Bengaluru returnees would be released latest by this week as most of their testing has been completed.
A per the DIPR report, Y Kikheto Sema along with Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur Anoop Kinchi IAS and Commissioner Police Dimapur, Rothihu Tetseo IPS, visited the institutional quarantine center Ganeshnagar on June 25. The team interacted with the police officials manning the centre and visited the rooms and the blocks where the returnees are staying, a DIPR report stated.
Referring to the recent fiasco at Ganeshnagar QC, Kikheto said that there have been daily incidences in the QCs. He requested the people staying in quarantine to be patient with the administration and frontline workers and asked them to resolve any issues in a peaceful manner. “The action initiated was not to harm anyone but to control the huge number of people sensing threat of endangering lives of frontliners as well as the others and to avoid unwanted situation,” he stated.
Interacting with the police officials, Kikheto Sema described COVID-19 as something new to everyone, and Nagaland along with India and the world has been working tirelessly everyday for the past 3 to 4 months for containing community transmission.
Dimapur being the main entry point has been catering to the returnees arriving by road, train and flight ever since the exodus of returnees began and “yet everyday is a new experience where all the frontline workers are trying to adapt with different ground situation,” Kikheto maintained. He mentioned that Dimapur was shouldering the major responsibility of the state and is currently managing 51 institutional quarantine centers and about 25 paid quarantine centers totaling to 76 including Ganeshnagar which is the biggest in terms of number of beds.
The Incharge expressed gratitude to all the frontline workers who has been ceaselessly working, to meet the day to day needs arising from the 76 QCs. He also mentioned that even before the stranded people arrived, the frontline workers have been working tirelessly for preparation of the QCs ensuring that facilities were provided for the convenient placement of the returnees.
“All these has been done and is being provided under the noble providence of the state Government free of cost and perhaps Nagaland is one of the few States where personal human touch is being given from all aspects,” he noted.
“Our Naga society will have to take away from this pandemic, a lesson that unless we work together the very fabric of the society would be shattered,” he observed.
