Dimapur, June 25 (EMN): Nagaland Agriculture Production Commissioner Y Kikheto Sema, who is also in-charge of Covid-19 activities in Dimapur, along with Deputy Commissioner of Dimapur Anoop Khinchi, and Commissioner Police of Dimapur Rothihu Tetseo visited the institutional quarantine centre at Ganeshnagar on June 25 and interacted with the police officials manning the facility.
An update from DPRO Dimapur informed that the team also visited the rooms and blocks where the returnees are kept.
Interacting with the police officials, Sema described Covid-19 as something new to everyone; where Nagaland along with India and the world has been working tirelessly everyday for the past three to four months for containing community transmission.
Dimapur being the main entry point has been catering to the returnees arriving by road, train and flight ever since the exodus of returnees began and yet everyday is a new experience where all the frontline workers are trying to adapt with different ground situation, Sema maintained.
He further mentioned that Dimapur was shouldering the major responsibility of the state and is currently managing 51 institutional quarantine centres and about 25 paid quarantine centres totalling to 76 including Ganeshnagar which is the biggest in terms of number of beds.
Further, he said that the Government of Nagaland, on hearing the pleas of the stranded Naga people in various parts of the country, facilitated their return through special trains, hired buses and provision of entry through owned arranged vehicles and till date more than 15,000 stranded people have been brought back to Nagaland, according to the update.
Sema expressed gratitude to all the frontline workers who have been ceaselessly working to meet the day-to-day needs arising from the 76 quarantine centres. He also mentioned that even before the stranded people arrived, the frontline workers have been working tirelessly for preparation of the quarantine centres, ensuring that facilities were provided for the convenient placement of the Returnees.
“All these has been done and is being provided under the noble providence of the state government free of cost and perhaps Nagaland is one of the few States where personal human touch is being given from all aspects,” Sema was quoted as saying.
“Our Naga society will have to take away from this pandemic, a lesson that unless we work together, the very fabric of the society would be shattered,” he further observed.
Referring to the recent fiasco at Ganeshnagar, Sema said that there has been daily incidences in the quarantine centres, whereby he requested the inmates to be patient with the administration and frontline workers and asked them for resolving any issues in a peaceful manner.
He said that the action initiated was not to harm anyone but to control the huge number of people sensing threat of endangering lives of frontline workers as well as the other inmates and to avoid unwanted situation.
Sema assured that most of the inmates of Ganeshnagar quarantine centres who are Bengaluru returnees, would be released latest by this week as most of their testing has been completed.
Sema and DC Dimapur also acknowledged and appreciated the efforts of the police for rendering their tireless and selfless services in the fight against Covid-19.
