Government servant plays Good Samaritan during the lockdown

Our Correspondent
Kohima, May 8 (EMN): Amid the lockdown when everything came to a standstill, one noble soul in the form of Ronald Chasie has quietly played a Good Samaritan by ferrying sick persons to the hospitals in and around the state capital Kohima even at odd hours. Chasie has helped 14 emergency patients so far.

While speaking to Eastern Mirror, Chasie said that with the responsibility of giving back to the society, he started to offer free pickup and dropping to needy patients from home to hospital and vice versa with his car during the lockdown period. He believes that everyone must contribute something to the society.

"If we don't help others, we don't have any value in our life," said Chasie who is also a government employee at Police Headquarter in Kohima. "Just going to office and coming back home eating and sleeping in not enough, Helping others should be the purpose of our life," Chasie shared adding serving others is serving God.

Chasie, who has been to seven countries, stated that foreign countries are well-developed because the people immensely contribute towards the society. He said the living standard would improve only when the people contribute to society.
He viewed that if everyone irrespective of tribe, race, religion or colour develop an attitude of belongingness to the state, on then the land would grow and prosper.

By catering to the needs of others, Chasie wished to encourage people in helping the needy in unusual times. He also informed that almost all the patients he extended free transportation service were so far from poor families.

"We don't see how people are suffering from living in our comfort zone," Chasie said.

Chasie do not take a penny in ferrying the patients in return. He said that the genuine smile on the faces of those he helped brings him inner satisfaction and happiness.

On seeing the helpless condition of the poor, it all started on April 23 when Chasie decided to pick up and drop patients to hospitals with his Swift Dzire during the lockdown period.

Chasie shared that he received lots of positive response from various quarters including the office from the chief secretary, KMC and the senior officers from police department.

KMC have come up also with a similar free transportation service to the patients within Kohima municipal ward for non-Covid patients seeking conveyance to the hospital.

Chasie is also said to be giving free rent for the tenants including daily wage earners and some government servants, who are living in his apartment in Kohima. Chasie narrated the suffering of common people due to the restrictions.

A 99-year-old Vikosa Zhotso, one of the patients from Jakhama village, has acknowledged Chasie for providing him free conveyance during the lockdown from Bethal Medical Centre to his native village.

"It was very helpful! He did not even take any fare for dropping us. May God bless him," said the nonagenarian who came down to the hospital from Jakhama, some 16 km away from the state capital, with complaint of severe gastritis.

Vikosa Zhotso, grandson of Vikosa, shared how Chasie reached the hospital immediately when they contacted him after getting his number through a post on Facebook. Chasie, on receiving the call, reached the hospital and took the patient along with his daughter and great granddaughter to their native place.

Chasie also rushed to Bayavü colony, when a pregnant lady and her husband called him up on April 26 at around 11:30 pm where he dropped off them to Oking Hospital.

The husband who goes by the name of Mintu Chakraborty, a painter by profession, profusely thanked Chasie for dropping them to the hospital at a time when her wife Sungmo Kundang was labour pain. He said it was rare to find someone doing such a humanitarian service in such trying time.

Chakraborty's wife gave birth to a healthy girl child on reaching the hospital half an hour around 12:24 am on April 25.

On the same evening, Chasie not only picked the mother and her first child and dropped them home but also gave them money to buy meat to nourish the mother.