MNS: An RTI was filed regarding functioning in the state Health department by K Seityajit. However there has no reply even after the stipulated period.
It was asked, “ How many Private Hospitals, Private Clinics and Private Nursing Home are there in the State established by state working doctors . Details of state nominees not joining state services were also demanded. Amount funded by the National Programme for Control of Blindness ( NPCB) since 2002 , distribution of Intra Ocular Lenses (IOL), illegal sale of the lenses, functioning of Medical Board , numbers of cases referred , conditions, status of Nursing Institutes (ANM, GNM, B.Sc Nursing) were also asked. Details of licensed whole sellers, retailers of drugs were demanded , it questioned alleged selling of unbranded drugs , forcing patients to purchase unnecessary medicines specially during operation , audit of prescriptions were also demanded. Total number of cases, arrested traffickers, traders from 2007 to 2012 were asked. Other informations demanded were , amount of remuneration paid to the Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA ) for Insecticide Treated programme / Scheme (ITBN), sanctioned amount for the State vector Borne Disease Control Programme (SVBDCP) and the National Vector Borne Disease control programme (NVBDCP) during the year 2010 – 2011 and 2011-2012., fogging and spraying . Present (service) status of the five Medical Officers, decision of the Government in compliance of the Judgment and Order dated 7-9-2012 of the Gauhati High Court, Principal Bench in the W.P(C) No. 3094 of 2012. Seniority position of the Medical Officers were also asked.
It was asked if the department could not complete the preparation of its MGEL due to i frequent transfer of the staff . Private Nursing Schools are taking admission of students every year, why the Govt. Nursing School unable to take the admission each year it was asked?
Which are the Districts that the District Blindness Control Society are functioning? It was asked to provide the amount funded by the National Programme for Control of Blindness ( NPCB) since 2002 to uptill now.
How is the functioning of the State Medical Board? Please provide the authenticated copies of the orders of the referred cases from 2002 to 2012.
It was asked how many affiliated or recognized Nursing Institutes (ANM, GNM, B.Sc Nursing) are there in Manipur? How many of them are having the 300 bedded parent hospitat as per the norms of the INC? Why don’t the admission fees and the monthly fees taken by the Private Nursing Institutes be fixed at an uniform rate? Please give the reasons.
It was asked to provide the information and reasons for not having an effective system to control and ban the illegal of spurious and substandard drugs in the state which is hazardous andeven can cause the loss of life.
It was asked how many licenced Whole Sellers and Retailers of drugs are there In the state .
Why unbranded drugs are sold it was asked. At the time of operation of a patient parties are asked to buy costly but unnecessary medicines and it is alleged that after the operation, the medicines are sold off. Other states audit the prescriptions. The illegal drug trade and illicit trafficking of Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances in the State is dangerously increasing . But the present scenario and situation is drug importation, trafficking consumption then- narcotic cultivation, production, trafficking and consumption with drug abuse and organized or unorganized crimes. Innocent children and women are the victims of this trend examples of which are the killing and sucking of blood of the children and women. It is threatening to the society. Why the state Drug Control Service not take up any effective measures to curb with illicit narcotics and the related crimes for so long in the State? With the simple drug burning ceremonies suffice the issue? What the Anti Narcotics Task Force doing for the last so many years? Please provide the total number of cases, arrested traffickers, traders from 2007 to 2012. Please also provide the Departmental Working Report in connection with the illegal drug trade and illicit trafficking of Narcotics and Psychotropic substances In the State.
It was asked to provide the reasons for not exempting/ relaxing the Doctors of Manipur Health Services, Govt. of Manipur from the Manipur Govt. Employees List( M-Gel) as that of the officers recruited under the Manipur Civil Service( MCS), Manipur Finance Service(MFS), Manipur Police Service{MPS), Manipur Forest Service(MFS). Please furnish the norms/ regulation/ Govt. notifications in this regard and for the differentiation.
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