Dimapur, February 17 (MExN): The CMC Connect has welcomed the concern and prompt action of Nagaland Chief Minister, Neiphiu Rio and Minister Tongpang Ozukum in regard to the Nagaland patient’s rest house project at Vellore.
The CMC Connect is a body of patients and their families who visit the Christian Medical College, Vellore for treatment, most of whom are referred there by the hospitals in Nagaland, including government servants.
A meeting held in Dimapur on December 21, 2021, CMC Connect in a press release said, it was attended by about 60 members and they expressed the difficulties faced by patients and their attendants securing affordable and decent accommodation, often reaching Vellore at odd hours in the night or early hours of the day. It was also noted that almost all other NE states have their own rest houses with designated government protocol officers in place.
Accordingly, the gathering decided to approach the Government of Nagaland to urgently look into the matter. Representatives of the group met CM Neiphiu Rio on February 1, 2022, who on the same day dispatched a letter to his counterpart, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, requesting for land to be allotted for the purpose of setting up a rest house for patients from Nagaland.
This was further followed up by authorizing the Minister Tongpang Ozukum to travel to Chennai to meet Tamil Nadu CM, MK Stalin, on February 14 as was reported in the local as well as national dailies. The CM Tamil Nadu responded very positively to the request from his Nagaland counterpart, to the extent of identifying a plot of land in Vellore for the Nagaland Patient’s Rest House, the very next day.
Therefore, in this regard, CMC Connect Convenor Hosheto Achumi and Co-convenor Dr Aomangyang Walling called upon all concerned citizens to pray for early completion of the project.
