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After Hongnao Konyak’s free service, Mon city now has three ambulances, with one devoted for COVID-19 sufferers
Former Nagaland faculty trainer Hamshen Konyak had a bit of recommendation for his son after handing over the keys of a model new SUV purchased from his retirement advantages three years in the past: “Put this gift to good use.”
The son, 39-year-old Hongnao Konyak, did higher. He turned the SUV into an ambulance to ferry the sick and their attendants for greater than three months through the COVID-19 lockdown phases.
His 100-day service resulted in August after Mon, the headquarters of Mon district about 330 km from State capital Kohima, acquired the primary of its three ambulances from the federal government and a Gurugram-based NGO.
Mr. Konyak, a social employee and a member of the district unit of the Naga People’s Front, was not only a “self-styled driver” of a “makeshift ambulance” when the district had none.
He typically grew to become the attendant of an unaccompanied affected person and an interpreter for villagers who spoke completely different dialects of the Konyak tribal language that non-Konyak docs and medical employees didn’t perceive. He additionally organised blood donors, bringing them to the District Hospital Mon (DHM) and dropping them again residence.
One such beneficiary was the brother of Methna Konyak, a haemophilia (a genetic dysfunction that impacts blood-clotting) affected person who wanted 5 items of blood of A+ group.
“It would have been difficult to get blood for my brother without Hongnao’s help. A person who uses his own vehicle, burns fuel and helps the sick get treatment in time during difficult times is a rarity,” the affected person’s brother stated.
“Hongnao was a massive help during the lockdown when patients could come from faraway villages because of the lockdown,” stated DHM’s Medical Superintendent Khrielasanuo.
“I could not let my car be parked idly when in-patients of the district hospital, designated a COVID-19 hospital, had to be relocated. I met district authorities with the proposal of providing round-the-clock ambulance service with my car,” Mr. Konyak advised The Hindu from Mon.
He ferried sufferers to and from varied cities and villages within the district as effectively as hospitals in adjoining Assam. “I must have transported some 150 people, including pregnant woman for delivery. The DHM asked me to keep a record but I did not do this for the records, neither for getting anything in return,” he stated.
Only as soon as did he obtain some assist — a present of fifty litres of diesel from a gasoline outlet proprietor in Mon city for enabling his “service to mankind”.
After his 100-day service, he stayed a month on the Mon Covid Control Room voluntarily monitoring quarantine, restoration, and different well being centres.
Mon’s District Magistrate Thavaseelan {K}. stated the district administration didn’t waste time in allowing Mr. Konyak to ferry non-COVID-19 sufferers however by adhering to all security protocols.
“We are grateful to people like him and organisations such as Konyak Union for helping the administration during the toughest phases of the pandemic,” he stated.
Per week in the past, the State authorities introduced that DHM — one among Nagaland’s cleanest hospitals — can be upgraded to a medical school. Locals really feel the makeshift ambulance may have performed a task on this choice.
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