NGOs highlight need for separate quarantine centres for drug users

DAARCFoM, and Com munity Response on COVID 19 CROC 19 , a committee comprising of eight civil society organi zations namely Social Awareness Service Organi zation SASO , Kripa Society, Manipur Network of Positive People MNP , Care Foundation, Users…

DAARCFoM, and Com munity Response on COVID 19 CROC 19 , a committee comprising of eight civil society organi zations namely Social Awareness Service Organi zation SASO , Kripa Society, Manipur Network of Positive People MNP , Care Foundation, Users Society for Effective Response USER Manipur , Dedicated People’s Union DPU , Community Network for Empowerment CoNE and Makers Foundation, have conveyed that while the initiative of police personnel with the help of certain organizations in picking up many homeless drug users and keeping them in various drug rehabilitation centres is definitely praiseworthy, it would be a wise decision on the part of the authority concerned, in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, to set up a separate quarantine or isolation centre for the drug users to contain further spread of the virus from any infected drug user Source The Sangai Express

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