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This place has special quarantine center for transgender community

Between the corona infection and the lockdown, the Manipur government has set up two special types of coronavirus quarantine centers for transgender communities in the state. For the people of these communities coming from Green and Orange, this center has been opened in the Government Blind School of Takialpat in Imphal West.

For those coming from the Red Zone, this center is located in Maria Montessori Higher Secondary School of Koirengi in Imphal East. According to news agency ANI, there is a total accommodation of 25 people in the Quarantine Center of Imphal East and 20 in the Imphal West Quarantine Center.

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In his statement, Mala Lissam, Program Head, Department of Social Welfare, said that we got information from some areas and some activists that in the quarantine center in different districts and assembly constituencies, transgenders face a lot of problems in living among other communities. Two trans-women have been admitted to the Quarantine center of Imphal West.

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The Health Department has provided masks, sanitizers, gloves, PPE kits, goggles, sodium hypochlorite solution etc. for use in the Transgender Quarantine Center at Tikalpat.

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