Manipur News

IMPHAL, June 28: The All Manipur Working Journalists Union in collaboration with the Palliative Care Society, Manipur organised a one day awareness programme on Palliative Care in Manipur today at the Manipur Press Club.

AMWJU president W Shamjai, Palliative Care Society president Dr Kh Pallin and Palliative Care Society general secretary Dr Jugindro S attended the programme as presidium members.

Speaking on palliative care, Dr Jugindro said palliative care relieves suffering and improves the quality of life of people living with chronic and incurable illness.

He said it also improves the quantity of life for cancer sufferers, patients dying to chronic diseases, the terminally ill elders and people living with HIV/AIDS.

He further said that the palliative care responds to physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs and extends if necessary to support in bereavement. The palliative care is a patient centred treatment and not a disease-focused one.

There are 377 individuals in every lakh population who require palliative care and there are around 10,000 patients in Manipur requiring palliative care, he explained further.

Dr Jugindro added that the way of providing palliative care was introduced by Cicely Saunders in the 1970s in UK by establishing the first hospice centre called St Cristopher`™s Hospice in London.

Now USA has over 1500 hospice centres as it understand the value of palliative care, he continued.

The system is very costly and patients do not prefer to stay in hospice centres, he said.

However, Kerala took an initiative some 23 years ago by starting home visit based palliative care he said.

He continued that more than one thousand palliative care centres has been established in Kerala alone and large numbers of students of colleges, schools, nurses and medical students forms the basic support of their programme.

In Manipur since June 2014 more than 100 members have been trained in the basics of palliative care. A society called the Palliative Care Society, Imphal with the trainees as members was formed on April 16 2015 he added.

He further said that the society decided to adopt Thangmeiband constituency to start pilot project regarding Palliative care. As well as in month of November 19 and 20 a national conference on Palliative Care will be organised in the State.

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2015/06/palliative-care-improves-quality-of-life-for-people-with-chronic-illness-says-pcs-gen-secy/

IMPHAL, June 28: BJP Manipur Pradesh president Th Chaoba today clarified that the BJP will stick to its previous declaration that it will not form any alliance with other parties and sit in the opposition benches in all ADCs.

Speaking to media persons today at his party office, he said he has no information about successful BJP candidates forming an alliance with the NPF.

If any successful candidate of the party has joined the NPF or left the party, struct disciplinary action will follow, he continued

Further speaking on the issue of ADC election process, he said the delay in issuing a gazette notification regarding the formation of the 6th Autonomous District Council by the Congress government seems to be deliberate and intentional.

He said officially the whole process for the 6th ADC election was to be complete by June 17 and now it is already June 28, but the government is yet to declare the date of oath taking for the elected members.

He said the delay may be because the Congress is trying to buy some elected members as it has managed to achieve absolute majority in only Sadar Hills out of the six.

Chaoba also commented that a team of the State BJP had been to the national capital on a weeklong trip and already apprised the Central government and national leaders of the party on the various issues confronting the State at the moment.

Chaoba said during their weeklong trip, the nine-member State BJP team led by himself had met BJP national president Amit Shah, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, MoS Home Ministry Kiren Rijiju, BJP, national general secretary and in charge of NE and J&K Ram Madhav, Road Transport and Surface Minister Nitin Gadkari, Tribal Development Minister Jual Oram to discuss the issues confronting the State.

During the meeting with Tribal Development Minister, the State team submitted a proposal for inclusive development of the tribal people of the State, he said.

He continued, the Minister not only noted the proposal seriously but also assured to attend a seminar for the development of the hills and chalk out a mechanism for the same likely in the month of August.

In separate meetings with Rajnath Singh and Kiren Rijiju, the State BJP team discussed the issues of border and law and order, he said.

When the team asked the Union Home Minister to interfere in the present Dzuko Valley dispute with Nagaland, the team was informed that the State government has not informed the Union Home Minister about the issue, he said.

Chaoba said the team proposed upgrading the Jiribam-Tipaimukh road as an alternative life-line for Manipur to Nitin Gadkari, which was duly noted.

Further the secretary of Transport, Vijay Chhiber assured that the Malom-CCpur road will be developed into a four lane soon and will be included in the State`™s budget.

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2015/06/chaoba-reiterates-bjps-stand-against-forming-adc-alliance/

IMPHAL, June 28: In what could be a case of food poisoning, an 18 year old boy was hospitalised at the the Rajmedicity, North AOC after consuming packaged soft drink.

The victim has been identified as Gangmei Gaikhalong, 18, son of G Pantilung of Ragailong Imphal East, a class XI student of Maria Montessori.

According to family members, he was taken to the hospital late in the evening following relentless vomiting.

They also said that the incident occurred around 5 pm about half an hour after the victim consumed Frooti (a mango drink).

It is further learnt that prior to consuming Frooti, the boy had reportedly had sunflower seeds and Appy another packaged soft drink (apple fruit drink).

With the victim`™s health deteriorating, he was initially taken to a local doctor who administered first aid and later advised him to be taken to a hospital, the family said.

Subsequently, he was taken to Rajmedicity and administrated with life saving drugs. There his blood sample was also taken by the hospital authority.

Meanwhile, reacting to the incident, Gangmei Pouhemlung, eldest brother of the victim, drew the attention of the government to take initiative to ensure that all the packaged foods, drinks etc are checked in the wake of reports of health hazard created by packaged foods.

He further appealed the government to act very swiftly considering the health of the public at mass and before things gets out of hands.

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2015/06/boy-hospitalised-after-consuming-packaged-soft-drink/