Cachar Police helps people, deliver medicines free of cost to people during lockdown

April 27: Assam Government has launched the Dhanvantari initiative whereby on calling ‘104’ the health department of the state would home deliver medicines that were not available locally. With the launch of this initiative, calls have started to pour in. Till 8 PM of 26 April, 2540 requests for medicines were received. In Cachar too, a number of such calls were received and even WhatsApp messages were responded to even by the police department of the district.

“In a bid to minimize difficulties of our citizens during #Lockdown2, Cachar Police quickly responded to two requests on social media and sourced medicines from Guwahati in coordination with Police Commissionerate Guwahati.” wrote Cachar Police in its official Facebook Page.”

Expressing her gratitude, Shayantani Roy, college student of Silchar wrote on her Facebook wall, “My mother is a patient of neurology, we were unable to find one of her medicine from the past 20 to 25 days. We tried our best to search for it but couldn’t get one. Then on behalf of me, as I don’t have twitter, Subhadip Roy tweeted about the matter and mentioned the officials. Within 24 hours, we are fortunate and grateful that Assam Police and Cachar Police contacted Shaqib Chowdhury who also retweeted about the matter and then they asked for my address and came with the medicine at our door step.They also didn’t charge for the medicine and showed their gesture. I am forever thankful and grateful to Assam Police, Cachar Police, Guwahati Police for this great help. Also thank you to Shaqib Chowdhury and Subhadip Roy for this.”