Manipur violence: Free medical camp for IDPs held in Kangpokpi district

A two-day-long free medical camp for Internally Displaced Persons sheltered at various relief camps in Kangpokpi town culminated today.

The free medical camp was organized by Kangpokpi Independent Baptist Church, or the KIBC, in collaboration with Friends Missionary Prayer Band and District Hospital Kangpokpi at the KIBC Campus.

Hundreds of Internally Displaced Persons in various relief camps within Kangpokpi district headquarters availed the free medical camp facilities.

Apart from the free medical check-up, all the patients were provided with the required medicine provided by the Friends Missionary Prayer Band.

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Speaking on the sideline of the camp, Seichon Haokip, the Church executive, said that in the ongoing ethnic clash that we have been suffering for the past more than eight months now, many of our kith and kins from far-flung villages and the Imphal valley are sheltered in relief camps after they were driven out of their homes and villages.

He continued that in the relief camps, they ran short of basic hygienic facilities and lacked medicine causing them to suffer from various illnesses and diseases.

He said that during such troubled times when we are in dire need of medicine, the Friends Missionary Prayer Band has contributed a huge quantity of medical supplies which helped us conduct a free medical camp for the Internally Displaced Persons.

He also conveyed heartfelt gratitude to the Doctors and nurses from the District Hospital Kangpokpi and the hospital authority and other volunteers for the success of the medical camp while conveying immense gratitude to the Friends Missionary Prayer Band family.

Seichon Haokip further said that the Friends Missionary Prayer Band is a family to the Kangpokpi Independent Baptist Church with whom we are working together in partnership in spreading and strengthening the Gospel.

The Church authority also conveyed its plan to organize such a free medical camp in the Saikul area as well.