Panaji: Goa authorities rushed to help actress Nafisa Ali who was stuck in coastal state without the medicines due to ongoing lockdown.
Ali, who is a cancer survivor, was living at Morjim village in North Goa, when nationwide lockdown was announced.
After she told that she was stuck in the coastal state without medicines, Goa chief minister’s office rushed the officials to help her out.
Goa chief minister’s official handle tweeted “local incident Commandar hasestablished contact with her and necessary help has been extended.”
They also posted picture of the actress speaking with the officials maintaining social distancing.
Earlier during the day, Ali had told that she was currently staying with her daughter in Goa and finding it hard to access her medicines due to the nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
The actor said there was a scarcity of essential food items during the initial days of the 21-day lockdown announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 24.
“Everybody is facing difficulties. The first week was very hard here in Goa but now vegetable shops are open. Goa was in a bad situation. Everything was locked down so there was nothing available, no water, vegetables, ration. One couldn’t go out to buy anything because the cops would stop you and hit people, like whoever was trying to go anywhere would get hit,” Ali had told in an interview.
The actor, who stays in Delhi, had come to meet her daughter in Goa for over a week but they could not get back after the lockdown.
“My daughter said because I am under cancer remission so I am at a big risk so she told me to come to Goa. Now, my medicines are running out slowly. For my cancer treatment, I have some medicines which are not available anywhere in Goa. They are all lying in Delhi and the courier services are closed so they cannot be sent.
“As and when my medicines finishes I will stop taking them because they are not available. What to do? I understand the situation is such one can’t help,” Ali added.
