MPP proposes all-party Covid-19 committee
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, May 10 2021:
Manipur People's Party (MPP) has suggested all the regional and national political parties join hands in forming an All-Political Party Covid-19 Committee so as to extend help to the government in combating the infectious Covid-19 pandemic in the state.
In a release, MPP vice president Dr S Ibomcha urged chief minister N Biren, who also holds the portfolio of health, to recruit doctors, nurses and health workers to ensure that the district hospitals and health centres do not face any shortages in these pandemic times.
Further suggesting that the district hospitals and healthcare facilities be converted into Covid dedicated hospitals, he also stressed the need for the government to distribute essential items and edibles to the poor people of the state whose livelihoods have been affected by the restrictive measures imposed for curbing the spread of Covid-19 pandemic.
Maintaining that the massive increase in Covid-19 positivity and fatality rate in the country is due to the government's negligence by allowing the annual Kumbh Mela and conduct of assembly elections in five states, Ibomcha said that neither the Kumbh Mela nor the elections in the five states followed COvid-19 SOP guidelines.
He also pointed out that another reason for the sharp spike in Covid-19 positive cases in the state during the second wave is allowing Manipuris residing outside the state to return home without conducting Covid-19 test.
This has led to the spread of the infectious disease among the local residents, he said and asked the government authorities to mandatorily conduct Covid-19 test of all those who come to Manipur and make them return to their respective homes only when the test results have been confirmed to be negative for Covid-19 .