Government urged to provide medicines for PwDs
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, April 23 2024:
State Platform of Disabled People's Organisations Manipur (SPDPO) on Tuesday appealed to the state government to provide medicines for persons with disabilities (PwDs) staying in relief camps in different parts of the state.
In a release, president Md Yunus Khan informed that a team of SPDPO visited relief camps set up at Lamboi Khongnangkhong, Samurou and Thangmeiband Tombisana High School and distributed 'Jumbo' box and T-shirts, which were sponsored by its advisor T Peter, to the internally displaced PwDs.
The president informed that during the visit, the team came across many PwDs affected by the ethnic violence unable to follow daily medications owing to deprivation of their source of livelihood, while some could not avail benefits of government schemes due to non-possession of Aadhaar and disability certificate.
As such the organisation drew the immediate attention of authorities concerned to ensure that all the PwDs have access to the government's welfare schemes and projects.