A healer avoided

Dr John L. Sailo Ryntathiang

On April 13, Dr John L. Sailo Ryntathiang, founding father of Shillong’s Bethany Health facility, become the primary in Meghalaya to check certain for COVID-19. Although he was once identified for his philanthropic paintings and was once arguably essentially the most respected doctor within the state, the social ostracisation of the Ryntathiang circle of relatives started proper after his prognosis. Two days later, when the 69-year-old died, his frame lay in his personal medical institution for 36 hours. The circle of relatives sought after to bury him in Nongpoh, Sailo’s local the city, however citizens and neighborhood leaders refused, fearing an infection from the useless frame. Paradoxically, Sailo had arrange the Bethany Health facility Outreach in Nongpoh to offer inexpensive healthcare to the deficient.

The state management then deliberate to bury the frame in Shillong, however there, too, the circle of relatives confronted hostility from locals. Sooner or later, the federal government reached out to the church buildings and in any case the Riatsamthiah Presbyterian Church cemetery at Lawmali allowed his frame to be laid to leisure there on April 16.