Expressing disappointment at the lack of basic medical amenities, shortage of manpower and other facilities at Community Health Centre (CHC) Shamator, the Shamator Town Public Forum (STPF) has served an ultimatum on the health and family welfare (H&FW) department to necessary remedial measures within a period of one month.
The Karnataka High Court has made it clear that if the original jurisdiction is not exercised by a competent authority, the Appellate authority even though competent cannot cure the jurisdictional.
Commissioner & secretary Health and Family Welfare (H&FW), Y.Kikheto Sema informed that at present Nagaland has 31 active cases of leprosy out of which 90 percent were from Dimapur and 80 percent of which were from non-Naga migrant workers.
Health and Family Welfare (H&FW) department Mon conducted district-level workshops on “Routine Immunization (RI) strengthening”, and “Vaccine Preventable Disease (VDP) Surveillance and Measles and Rubella (MR) elimination” on May 24-25.
State health and family welfare (H&FW) minister, P. Paiwang Konyak, has requested the health ministry to consider Mon Medical College (MMC) as regional institute under Central Government as there was no institute of national or regional importance in Nagaland.