Manipur, Sept. 28 -- Speaking to the Imphal Free Press over the telephone, one of the inmates of Covid Care Centre, UNACCO claimed that no special treatment is given to the patients but they were given only one Vitamin C tablet per day.

The medical staff hardly came to check on them. They clean the washroom themselves and clear the garbage. The required medicines were often thrown out to them through the window of the staff, patients at several Covid care centres complain. And now, despite the rapid increase in COVID-19 positive cases in Manipur, the latest updated standard operating procedures (SOP) of Covid Care centres in the state permits asymptomatic patients to vacate the centre after a 10-day stay even if the patient is still COVI...