The Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) today provided
thermal scanners to all health centres in 86 tea gardens in the hills,
while it has also decided to start a community kitchen in Kalimpong to
feed all frontline workers in the fight against COVID-19.
“My immediate concern is the people living in tea gardens. We sent
thermal scanners to all dispensaries and health care centres in the 85
tea gardens in the GTA region today. “These thermal scanners would also
be sent to all closed tea gardens under the GTA,” Mr Thapa said in a
press release from Kalimpong where he is currently overseeing and
coordinating preparations to fight the novel coronavirus.
“Our second initiative was to start a community kitchen in Kalimpong.
which is being done to feed all frontline workers in Kalimpong. “The
food from this kitchen will feed the people at quarantine centres, the
police on duty, personnel from various departments on duty and workers
from NGOs. The kitchen will also feed daily wage earners who are facing a
lot of peoblems,” Mr Thapa said, adding that the kitchen will be set up
at the Mela ground with cooked food to be supplied from there.
According to him, he had been supervising work of setting up a new
quarantine centre, which will be functional in the next two days.
“Kalimpong has become the epicentre of COVID-19 in North Bengal, and I
have been camping in Kalimpong and implementing the right initiatives
in combating the transmission of the virus. If we fail to break this
chain here, the entire hills will be in trouble. I once again appeal to
the people to not come out of their houses unnecessarily as the threat
of covid is real and has already proved fatal as we have lost one person
from Kalimpong,” he said.
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