CM opens Grievance Cell, vows safety of Covid-orphaned children
Source: Chronicle News Service / DIPR

Imphal, May 20 2021: Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Thursday opened CM's COVID-19 Grievance Cell at Chief Minister's Secretariat, Imphal.

Speaking on the occasion, N Biren informed that the Grievance Cell is being opened especially for COVID patients undergoing home isolation and added patients could lodge their grievances to the cell if no satisfactory follow up action was taken up by any responsible authority after they spoke to the State COVID-19 Control Room.

The state government had earlier set up the Control Room for certain requirements of Home Isolation patients including consultation with doctors, medicines and pulse oximeters among others.

The Grievance Cell would also be manned by doctors, he said and informed all concerned to contact the Grievance Cell through 18003453848 (Toll Free) and 0385-2440079 .

The cell will be operative immediately.

He also urged that doctors and nurses concerned should visit every home isolation patients within their jurisdiction to give necessary medicine and pulse oximeters.

Conceding that home isolation without proper facilities for the same is a major cause for rapid spread of the virus, he conveyed that patients in home isolation would be brought to COVID Care Centre if they don't have proper isolation facilities in their residences.

While stressing the need to closely monitor Home Isolation cases in Imphal West and Imphal East district, he said the government had also constituted different teams headed by doctors to ensure prompt delivery of medicine, regular monitoring of home isolation cases and regular home visits among others.

The Chief Minister also announced that the State Government had started a scheme to take care of the children who had become orphans after losing their parents in the pandemic.

The Government would provide education, food, accommodation and other necessities to the children till they attain the age of 18 years, he maintained and appealed to the public to contact through the Childline (Toll Free No 1098) if anybody comes across any such child.

Regarding drug users who are highly vulnerable to both COVID-19 as well as the adverse impact of stringent measures like curfews, he stated that the Government would arrange Detoxification cum Treatment Camp.

He further said that COVID-19 test would be conducted for these drug users at the Directorate of Social Welfare on May 24 from 10:30 am onwards.

Only those persons with negative test results would be taken to the treatment camp while the infected ones would be referred to COVID Care Centre, he added.

N Biren also informed that the government on Thursday transferred a sum of Rs 13,20,33,000 to 1,28,508 beneficiaries of the state including Old Age Pension Scheme, Widow Pension, Disability Pension and Family Benefit Scheme.

Pension money was transferred directly to the beneficiaries' bank accounts through Direct Benefit Transfer using Public Financial Management System, he added.

Regarding the black fungus cases arising in some states, he informed that the Health Department has been instructed to remain alert.

He urged the people to perform COVID test as soon as any symptom appears and added that the state has sufficient stock of RAT kits.

He also appealed to public to cooperate with the Government in fighting the pandemic as coordinated efforts from both the Government and public could only contain the pandemic successfully.

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