The Tuensang incident which has alarmed our state recently, was not enough for the government, in another case a person with the COVID-19 Positive case was sent to Jalukie, Peren district ‘By Mistakenly’ as claimed by the District surveillance officer Dimapur in the local daily paper. We were shocked to learn about the incident and reminded the concern authorities that, there is no such room for the word ‘Mistakenly and Regret’ putting the whole community’s lives at risk. This is a complete failure on the part of the government official incharge. While acknowledging the effort and duties of all the frontline workers, we are saddened to know some of the authorities not following the revised SOP as given by the government. We also questioned our Chief Minister of how such incident can occur under his observation. As published on local daily paper on June 2 with the heading “CM to Head New HPC on COVID-19.” We the Zeliang community in particular and Nagas in general were hoping for justice to be done to the public under your supervision but unfortunately under your watch on June 3 one person, whose result was awaited was sent to Jalukie with 16 other passengers and were placed under quarantine only to learn later that one person from that group has got positive case. This has not only put the person who had tested positive at risk but the incident has also given the high chances of spreading the virus to the maximum people during their journey.
As Dimapur based citizen, we know the limitation we are facing in accommodating all our brothers and sisters coming from different states, and therefore we are not against the government or any officials for sending the returnees to their respective district from wherever they have come if they are tested negative but clearly without the test result in hand, sending of any person to any districts is violation of the new revised SOP as declared by the government. So we the concerned citizen of Zeliang community based in Dimapur through the local daily paper, asked the High Powered Committee (HPC) to immediately take a stern action on the people responsible for the incident. And at the same time we ask the HPC to immediately come up openly in the press conference about the incident and take up the necessary action on the official responsible for the June 3 incident.
With the limited capacity and equipments in Peren district, the frontline workers will also have to undergo tremendous pressure to work with the patient, for which we demand your authority to provide all the necessary medical equipments to all the frontline workers without any further delay in the above mentioned district.
Heikim Meru,
Kedinlung Newmai
Concerned Citizens of Zeliang Community Dimapur District
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