Nagaland Medicine Dealers Association (NMDA) called off its protest on Wednesday following “verbal assurance” from the concerned authority to address its demands.
NMDA announced that all medical dealers under the association would close their shops from March 29 as a sign of protest against the alleged “unlawful arrest” of its member.
Dimapur, March 28 (MExN): The Nagaland Medicine Dealers Association (NMDA) on Tuesday condemned the arrest of one of its member on March 27 under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985 allegedly in “violation of the procedure pres
Our Reporter Dimapur, Sep.22 (EMN): The general secretary of Nagaland Medicine Dealers Association (NMDA) said it had ‘no idea’ when the strike called by the transporters would end, as medicines were not delivered from Guwahati even on Thursday. ‘We have no idea on what reason the transporters based in Dimapur have called the strike and was non-functioning since Sep.16’, the general secretary told Eastern Mirror. “If there is no delivery of medicines from Guwahati in Dimapur, it will affect all the districts in the state except for Mokokchung district as they have an alternate route through Jorhat. But the other districts will suffer putting the lives of the patients at risk and we do don’t know why the government, administration and the law-agencies are keeping silent on this issue”, the general secretary said. The association appealed to the transporters to resume their services and also urged the government to look into t
Dimapur, July 17 (EMN): The Governor of Nagaland has prohibited the call for ‘indefinite cease work’ by Nagaland In-Service Doctors’ Association (NIDA) from July 18, stating that it will ‘seriously impact’ delivery of essential health services, thereby putting in grave jeopardy the life and well-being of the people of the state. NIDA in a circular dated July 11 had announced that all its members would go an agitation from July 18 to the 20th in which the members would cease work, and provide only emergency services in all the government health units/facilities in the state, and thereafter from July 21 onwards, cease even the emergency services for an indefinite period. A notification issued by the chief secretary J Alam on Sunday said that no doctor employed or deployed in any government health unit should go for agitation or cessation of work, and any such act would be considered illegal. It further stated that the doctor employed/deployed in any Government health unit/facil