Deputy commissioner Dimapur, Anoop Khinchi, has warned of strict action against volunteers/vigilantes in localities who prevent the movement of frontline workers and people engaged in providing essential services during the lockdown period.
According to a DIPR report, during a meeting on Monday, the DC expressed serious concern with regard to the continued barring of people working in the frontline/providing essential services by several colonies/villages despite repeated appeals made by the district administration.
He also encouraged the frontline workers to report such instances to the administration.
Khinchi reminded that social organisations have very important roles to play and appealed to the NGOs, GB/village councils to sensitise and educate the people in their respective colonies/villages.
“Instead of people guarding the village/colonies in groups, it is always better to stay at home and maintain social distance and be safe,” the DC advised.
After District Hospital Dimapur was converted to a Covid-19 hospital, patients with other health problems have to seek treatment from private hospitals, the chief medical officer (CMO) of Dimapur said.
However, he lamented, private hospitals are finding difficult to function as their workers are facing movement problems and if this continues, private hospitals will be forced to close down.