'Consider procuring portable test kits'
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, June 08 2020:
If the State Government is sincere in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, they must consider procuring portable test kits to enhance testing capacity in the State and inspect the quarantine centres frequently, said All Manipur Nupi Marup (AMNM) in a statement today.
In this regard, a press release signed by the secretary of AMNM, L Sumatibala said that the State witnessed a surge in positive cases of COVID-19 due to the 'negligence' of the State Government and bureaucrats.
Claiming that quarantine centres in the State follow the guidelines of World Health Organisation only in paper and the claim has been justified by the discontentment voiced by inmates in different centres, she asserted that the State Government should make testing of every returnee compulsory to control the virus.
And people with heart and kidney related ailments and diabetic patients should be tested as soon as possible since they are most vulnerable to be affected severely by COVID-19, she said and added that more attention should be paid to quarantine centres to save Manipur from becoming a red zone.