Nemcha Kipgen holds meeting with frontline workers
Source: The Sangai Express

Kangpokpi, May 11 2020: With regard to the arrival of several Manipuris from different parts of the country, Social Welfare and Cooperation Minister Nemcha Kipgen chaired a review meeting with all the frontline workers today at Conference Hall, DC office Kangpokpi.

District Magistrate/DC Kangpokpi, Lalithambigai Kalidas, SP Kangpokpi, Hemant Pandey, CMO Kangpokpi, Dr T Nilakanta Singh, official from Ministry of Home Affairs, Addl DC Kangpokpi, AC to DC Kangpokpi, all SDOs of the district, all Medical Officers of the district including District Surveillance Officer, officials from the police department, PHED and PWD officials and officials from MSPDCL Kangpokpi attended the meeting.

In the meeting, the Minister instructed the District Magistrate/DC Kangpokpi to appoint night duty officers/Duty Magistrates to coordinate with the police and medical officials in dispatching the returnees to institutional and community quarantine centres.

Brig M Thomas Ground at Kangpokpi DHQs will be set up as a station ground for the arrival of stranded people and from there they will be sent to their respective quarantine centres.

The police department has been given the task to stop vehicles carrying passengers and divert them to Thomas Ground.

The district police will also look after disinfection of Brig M Thomas Ground, screening areas and toilet facilities which will be done by the district fire personnel at least twice a day.

The police will also escort the vehicles transporting the stranded passengers of Kangpokpi from Brig.

.MThomas Ground till their respective community quarantine centres.

Considering the shortage of vehicles in the police department, the Minister requested the department concerned to provide at least two additional vehicles to Kangpokpi police.

PHE Department has been given the task to provide adequate water to the passengers and to supply necessary disinfectants required for disinfection of Brig M Thomas Ground and quarantine centres in co-ordination with SDOs concerned.

PWD Kangpokpi will assist the SDOs in setting up a deep pit for disposal of biomedical waste for institutional quarantine centres while SDOs/SDMs, Kangpokpi will co-ordinate with EE/PHED, MSPDCL and other concerned DLOs for setting up of institutional/community quarantine centres.

MSPDCL, Kangpokpi will fit lights at Brig M Thomas Ground and the light bill will be borne by the department.

The medical team will screen stranded people arriving at Brig M Thomas Ground while concerned Medical Officers of institutional and community quarantine centres will brief the Do's and Don'ts to inmates of the quarantine centres.

Considering the arrival of stranded passengers in the district, it has been unanimously decided that all markets in Kangpokpi District will remain open on all days only from 6:00 am to 11:00 am with immediate effect until further notice while the movement of private vehicles including autos and other passenger vehicles without a pass shall be dealt strictly and anyone found guilty will be punished under the relevant acts of Disaster Management Act.

Nemcha Kipgen also visited the institutional quarantine centre at Kangpokpi DHQs after the review meeting.

She was accompanied by SP Kangpokpi, SDO Kangpokpi and Medical Superintendent of District Hospital Kangpokpi along with Addl SP Kangpokpi and other Medical Officers.

According to DM/DC Kangpokpi, there are 5 institutional quarantine centres and 144 community quarantine centres in the district to accommodate the returnees in the district.

Later, in the afternoon, District Magistrate/DC Kangpokpi issued an order appointing fourteen officers as Magistrate on Duty to be stationed at Brig M Thomas Ground.

The District Magistrate/DC Kangpokpi orders stated that the Magistrate on duty will coordinate with the police, medical, PHED, MSPDCL officials on assigned days and supervised the overall management of the centralized arrival point along with concerned department.

38 Assam Rifles shall construct temporary tents for stranded people arriving at the centralized arrival point at Kangpokpi DHQs and SP Kangpokpi shall depute dedicated police team 24x7 at the ground to ensure that no stranded people arriving at the ground does not move outside.

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