DeMaS extends moral support and monetary help nurses from Manipur
Lodge complaint against Physical assault to Manipuri girl at Delhi
Source: IT News

Imphal, May 16 2020: Delhi Manipuri Society (DeMaS) has extended both moral and monetary support to around 16 nurses from Manipur who are working at New Delhi.

Among the 16 nurses, four are nurses who had voluntarily tested for coronavirus at their own expenses before starting their journey for Manipur and later cancelled their journey as they were found COVID-19 positive.

The DeMaS also facilitated to lodge a complaint to Mrs Soso Shaiza, Member, National Commission for Women regarding physical assault on a Manipuri by a local family in Fazilpur, Sector 72, Gurugram on May 10 .

A statement of the DeMaS said that the 4 nurses from Manipur who cancelled their return journey Manipur after they were tested positive are working in Pentamed Hospital, Model Town, Delhi.

Among the four, one was the first to be found positive.

The other three nurses, were also tested earlier at the beginning of this month but their results were found to be negative of COVID19(SARS-COV2) at that time.

The four nurses are staying together in the same hostel.

On finding positive of co-worker and co-mate in the hostel, families of the other three nurses insisted to return to Manipur.

They also requested for quarantining immediately, which could not be facilitated by the Hospital.

Consequently, the three girls put in their papers and planned for return to Manipur in a bus at a cost of Rs 10,000/- per person.

However, not to leave any stone unturned about novel coronavirus, as one of one of their co-mate in the hostel is covid 19 positive, they underwent for retests at prognosis laboratories at their own cost of Rs 4500/- per patient.

The test result showed positive for all the three nurses.

Consequently, they abandoned their plan of returning to Manipur.

Senior Members of Delhi Manipuri Society communicated the Delhi Police and Hospital authorities for proper treatment of them.

Thereafter, all the four nurses were taken care of by the Pentamed Hospital for treatment in isolation wards.

A sum of Rs 10,000/- each has also been given to each of the four nurses as an encouragement and showing solidarity to the frontline warriors.

Together with this, DeMaS has extended solidarity and monetary contribution Rs 10,000/- each to 12 Nurses to encourage them as frontline warriors.

The Delhi Manipuri Society also wrote a letter to Sh Muhammad Akil, Commissioner of Police, Gurugram, Haryana on May 12 to book the perpetrators of the crime against Manipuri.

A statement from the DeMaS said that the three accused - a lady, his son and daughter in law - all have been arrested by the Gurugram Police.

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