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Imphal, June 9
Inmates from quarantine center being opened at Diligent High School in Moirang Assembly Constituency today came out at the street and protest over government negligence in providing their food and others daily needs after 34 of them have been tested positive and taken to isolation ward at Bishnupur district head quarter.
A video footage uploaded at Facebook saw inmates coming out at the street and protesting government authority’s negligence.
“Since early morning no authority including the district administration authority had come to ask about our food, they didn’t even attend the inmates who are having some health problem”, a lady inmate was heard while sharing the video.
Earlier, an inmate from the same quarantine center, who has been tested positive with the Novel Coronavirus in a Facebook post, had indicated that he may have contracted the virus from inside the quarantine center. Imphal Times when contacted to him through mobile phone, it is learnt that even at isolation ward in Bishnupur district hospital, he along with other positive people were not properly provided medical treatment.
The person identified as Khangembam Arbinda , aged about 27 , son of Kh. Amu Singh of Kumbi leirak Achouba , Bishnupur district return back from Chennai and reached at Jiribam on May 23. He is a research fellow at Anna University Chennai. He came back as he is having heart problem and as he thought that it would be better to check up at Imphal’s hospital.
“As soon as we reached at Jiribam, 104 of us who came from other states of India were told to travel in 3 bus to Imphal, we were not allow to complain over it”, said Arbinda while talking to Imphal Times. He said that they were first kept at Utlou Public School and later shifted to Diligent School at Moirang. At the quarantine center when some inmate complaint about fever and cold, they were simply provided some paracetamol and no testing has been done, he said.
He expressed suspicions of getting infected at the quarantine center. 34 of them from among the 104 persons from the quarantine center have been tested positive late yesterday night.
