Super health-care facilities to be set up in 4 hill districts — Manipur CM

Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Thursday said the government has taken a decision to set up super-specialty health-care facilities/ infrastructure in the four hill districts of Senapati, Ukhrul, Tamenglong and Chandel at the earliest.

The chief minister was addressing the opening ceremony of the three-day Tekru-Nge festival held on the theme ‘Walking through the diversity and richness of Jessami’ at Jessami, a remote border village in Ukhrul district.

Singh said after building of the super-specialty health-care facilities, patients from far-flung villages need not travel to Imphal or other cities for treatment.

Despite the lack of specialist doctors in the hill districts at the moment, he said the treatments for diseases requiring specialist doctors are being conducted through Tele-ICU in the hill district hospitals.

We are also trying to increase the number of super specialist doctors, Singh said, referring to the shortage of doctors in the State.

He also highlighted the developmental changes witnessed in the state and said these have been made possible with the support and cooperation of the people.

On the development of the Heritage Park at Makhel in Senapati district, the chief minister stressed on the brotherly relation of the communities and spoke on the oneness of the people of the state.

Reiterating that the main vision for launching of the ‘Go to Hills’ and ‘Go to Village’ schemes were to identify the necessities of the villages in the interior parts of the state, Singh said that following the launch of these schemes, the government was able to identify the lack of infrastructure including roads, schools, offices, health facilities in the interior parts.

Singh also said that unfortunately in the last term, the government didn’t get much time to work for the people due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The chief minister also assured office buildings of additional SP, ADC at the earliest and to further look into the memorandum submitted by the people, including making SBI branch operational to ease monetary transactions.

Singh asked the villagers to submit a report with proper geo-tagging and mapping through the DC for the development of a wildlife sanctuary at a nearby forest area, which houses different fauna including Nong-in, the state bird.

As part of the celebration, the chief minister also dedicated the Model Residential School, LM Block, Ukhrul and Cave Tourism Project at Khangkhui Cave to the public.

Ministers Khashim Vashum (Transport), H Dingo (Social Welfare) and Thangjam Arun Kumar, MLA, accompanied the chief minister.