Relief materials distributed; medical camp held
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, December 03 2023:
Social activist Saveio Khole from Koide village in Senapati district along with his team visited relief camps set up at Porompat and Akampat in Imphal and distributed relief items including children's clothes, sanitary pads, women's undergarments and edibles on Saturday.
Addressing media persons, Saveio Khole stated that they have come from Senapati with a message to not break the relationship between the hills and valley and brought some essentials to assist displaced people who are staying in relief camps.
Meanwhile, Apunba Tengbang Lup, Bishnupur distributed eggs, bananas and biscuits, provided by the district administration, to inmates of the relief camp opened at Old Mini Secretariat Complex, near Loukoipat on Sunday.
Handing over the edibles, Relief Control Centre, Bishnupur Central Committee secretary M Bilkee Singh conveyed that the said items will be distributed after every five days to relief camp inmates.
On the other hand, Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD), Manipur State Branch conducted a free health camp for the inmates of the relief camps at Serou and Wangoo Tera Lupa Marup on Sunday.
During the camp which was participated by IDPD Manipur vice president Dr Y Mohen Singh, secretary Dr Kshetrimayum Manglem, members Dr Chongtham Renubala and Dr Kshetrimayum Memcha, around 150 people availed spot treatments and medicines.
Meanwhile, mission director of Manipur State Rural Livelihood Mission Nongmaithem Bandana of Kakching Phoushupat Leikai with support from her friends distributed relief materials at various relief camps set up in Kakching district on Sunday.
N Bandana along with Senior Citizens' Forum, Kakching president & ex-minister Nongmaithem Nimai and Peace Committee District Administration, Kakching vice chairman Yengkhom Nilachandra, among others visited the relief camps at Kakching's Indoor Stadium, Old Age Home, Kha Manipur College, Wairi Kongoi community hall, Kalyan Ashram and Yumbi Macha High School and distributed the relief materials.
Similarly, All Manipur Senior Citizens' Welfare Association, which runs the Old Age Home, Mongsangei, on Sunday provided blankets and monetary assistance to 68 elderly people staying in the aforementioned relief camps.
A meeting of the Association's Managing Committee was also held on Saturday which resolved to form an apex body of senior citizens' associations in the state and to affiliate the said body with central government-recognised All India Senior Citizens Confederation, it added.