CM opens COVID-19 Grievance Cell; scheme started to take care of children orphaned by Covid
Closely monitor home isolation patients: CM to docs
Source: The Sangai Express / DIPR
Imphal, May 20 2021:
Chief Minister N Biren Singh today opened CM's COVID-19 Grievance Cell at Chief Minister's Secretariat, Imphal.
The contact numbers for the Grievance Cell are 18003453848 (Toll Free) and 0385-2440079 .
The cell will be operative immediately.
While speaking on the matter, N Biren stated that the Grievance Cell is being opened especially for Covid patients undergoing home isolation and added patients could lodge their grievances to the cell if no satisfactory follow up action is taken up by any responsible authority after they speak to the State COVID-19 Control Room.
The State Government had earlier set up a State COVID-19 Control Room for certain requirements of home isolation patients including doctor consultation, medicines and pulse oximeters among others.
The grievance cell would also be manned by doctors, he added.
He urged that doctors and nurses concerned should visit every home isolation patient within their jurisdiction to give necessary medicine and pulse oximeters.
Stating home isolation without proper facilities for the same has been a major cause for rapid spread of the virus, he added that home isolation patients would be brought to Covid Care Centre if they don't have proper isolation facilities at their residences.
Expressing the need to closely monitor home isolation cases in Imphal West and Imphal East, the Government has also constituted different teams headed by doctors to ensure prompt delivery of medicine, regular monitoring of the cases and regular home visits among others.
Two worst affected districts--Imphal East and Imphal West have been divided into three zones each and separate officials appointed to better handle the Covid cases and facilitate prompt medical treatment and interventions, said the Chief Minister.
Each zone will be provided one ambulance for transporting Covid patients needing hospitalization.
The officials concerned will proactively handle the cases in their jurisdictions, he added.
The Chief Minister also announced that the State Government has started a scheme to take care of the children who have become orphans after losing their parents in the pandemic.
The Government would provide education, food, accommodation and other necessities to the children till they attain the age of 18 years, he added.
He appealed to the public to contact through the Childline (Toll Free No 1098) if anybody come across any such child.
Regarding drug users who are highly vulnerable to both COVID-19 as well as the adverse impact of stringent measures like curfews, he stated that the Government would arrange Detoxification cum Treatment Camp.
He further said that COVID-19 test would be conducted for these drug users at the Directorate of Social Welfare on May 24 from 10.30 onwards.
Only those persons with negative test results would be taken to the treatment camp while those with positive results would be referred to Covid Care Centre, he added.
N Biren Singh also informed that the Government has today transferred a sum of Rs 13,20,33,000 (Rupees ten crore, twenty lakh and thirty three thousand only) to 1,28,508 (One lakh twenty eight thousand five hundred and eight) beneficiaries of Old Age Pension Scheme, Widow Pension, Disability Pension and Family Benefit Scheme.
Pension money was transferred directly to the beneficiaries' bank accounts through Direct Benefit Transfer using Public Financial Management System, he added.
Regarding the reports of black fungus cases amid Covid, he stated that the Health Department has been instructed to remain alert.
He also urged people to perform Covid tests as soon as any symptom appear and added that the State has sufficient stock of RAT kits.
He also appealed to the public to cooperate with the Government in fighting the pandemic as coordinated efforts from both the Government and public could only fight the pandemic successfully.
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