Ccpur church leaders vow to join Covid battle
Source: Chronicle News Service / DIPR

Imphal, May 24 2021: Tribal Affairs and Hills minister Vungzagin Valte chaired a meeting with district administration and church leaders of the district on Monday to review Covid-19 related situation in the district.

In their speeches at the meeting held at DTC Hall, Tuibong, chief medical officer Dr VC Pau briefed the attendees on the present situation, Covid Care Centres and Community Home Isolation Centres in the district while minister Vungzagin commended the services rendered by frontline workers like doctors, nurses, paramedics, police, etc., in combating the pandemic.

He also urged the church leaders to lend a helping hand to the district administration by providing human resources, infrastructure resources and educating the people through the church.

"Let us rise above our political differences in the interest of the people.

We need to come together.

We need to unite as human beings Vungzagin said.

The church leaders expressed their willingness to work wholeheartedly with the government agencies to fight the Covid-19 pandemic together.

The leaders also agreed to assist the Covid-19 management by providing spaces for setting up Covid Care Centres in the existing Sunday School buildings, to provide volunteers as support staff and in dissemination of Covid-19 appropriate information to its members.

As per the decision taken, funeral-related gathering or condolence programmes should be held as per the guidelines and Covid-19 safety protocols with proper intimation to the district administration or SDO concerned for effective enforcement of Covid-19 SOP.

The minister also inspected the Oxygen Plant site at Churachandpur District Hospital wherein CMO Pau said that the trial run for this PSA oxygen plant has been successfully completed and will become fully functional within a short period of time.

During his visit to the oxygen plant, the minister also inspected a new site for installation of another PSA oxygen plant which will produce 200 cylinders per day.

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