Dimapur, March 24 (EMN): Young Namsang Association (YNA) president Dr. Phongshak Phom has said that Yonglok and Shetap villages under Longleng district are located in the border area where vehicular movements and inter-state business transactions between Assam and Nagaland are taking place but no adequate measures have been taken by the state government to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) into the region.
Phom said this in an open letter addressed to the principal director of Health and Family Welfare, GoN, and the chief medical officer (CMO) of Longleng.
“There is high chance to spread the disease (Coronavirus) through movements and contacts of people. We all know that almost all states are under lockdown due to the outbreak of Covid-19, and in Nagaland medical personnel have been deputed in some designated border gates for thermal screening, however, the border gates located in Yonglok and Shetap village under Longleng district are yet to provide the same for thermal screening,” the letter read.
“People of Longleng district especially living in Namsang area are prone to infect such deadly disease, and our state cannot be safe either unless we do all the necessary formalities in all the borders gates,” it added.
In view of this loophole, the YNA has requested ‘the medical authorities of Nagaland to immediately depute trained medical personnel with necessary equipments for thermal screening at the border gates for the safety of all people’.