Man gets 10 minutes to bid farewell to his father
Source: The Sangai Express
CCpur, August 06 2020:
The pandemic has scripted countless tales of emotional encounters and, today Churachandpur has witnessed one of its own as a Bangaluru returnee still doing his time on institutional quarantine gets just ten minutes to say goodbye to his father's lifeless body.
Luntinmang Haokip, a resident of Gamphajang village, working at a private company in Bengaluru returned home on August 3 and since then he had been in Churachandpur College Institutional Quarantine Centre.
However, his 70 years old ailing father Jamkhokai Haokip expired before he could get a COVID-19 test.
Churachandpur has set in place norms that require sample collection for returnees be done only after five days of their arrival.
With the quarantine embargo still lurking on him, Haokip sought special permission from the district health authorities for him to have one final glance on the mortal remains of his father.
Accordingly, he was granted 10 minutes.
An ambulance took him to the village where Junior Haokip spent what must be the most valuable 10 minutes of his life, crying over the remains of his father.