AIMS seeks support from Prime Minister for Myanmar
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 30 2021:
The Apunba Imagi Machasing (AIMS) appealed the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi to provide Covid emergency relief materials as humanitarian aid to the neighbouring country, Myanmar which is grappling with a massive increase in cases and deaths due to the dreaded COVID-19.In a letter addressed to the Prime Minister, AIMS lauded the Government's relentless battle against the deadly virus to prevent the spread of the infection and to save billions of lives in India.
However it maintained that the number of Covid cases has exploded in Myanmar which is battling with an acute shortage of medical equipment such as oxygen cylinders.
Further, the health system is on the verge of collapse due to strikes by doctors and nurses w.ho have joined a nationwide civil disobedience cafapaign against the military that seized power.
People have defied lockdowns in Myanmar in order to purchase oxygen where many are desperately scrambling to obtain oxygen supplies for sick family members and forcing thousands to queue for hours.
AIMS also mentioned that the ethnic communities from North East India who are settled in the neighbouring country, Myanmar are begging for support to combat a massive spike in daily COVID-19 cases due to the oxygen supply crisis.
Therefore AIMS sought the intervention of the Prime Minister to help in providing emergency relief materials including medicines and oxygen cylinders as a humanitarian aid to Myanmar to help them tackle the current situation.