Five-day workshop on 'Occupational health hazards of farm women' begins
Source: The Sangai Express
Thoubal, January 22 2016 :
A five-day long workshop on 'Occupational Health Hazards of The Farm Women' began today at Samaram GP, Panchayat Ghar, Thoubal under the project 'Innovative intervention for minimizing the occupational health hazards of the farm women in Thoubal District', our correspondent reports.
The workshop was organized by Smart Society, Manipur and sanctioned by National Council for Science & Technology Communication (NCSTC), Department of Science & Technology, Government of India.
Professor Dinabhandu Sahoo, Director IBSD, Government of India; N Rajensana, member, Samaram GP; E Brojendro Singh, general secretary, Smart Society and Debasis Choudhuri, consultant, Smart Society attended the workshop as chief guest, president and guests of honour while Dr Kh Nabakishor, District Medical Officer, ADC Chandel was the resource person.
Gurian Patrick from USA also attended the workshop.
Delivering the keynote address, Debasis Choudhuri said the main purpose of the project is to minimize health hazards of farm women engaged in different agricultural operations.
Farm women play a crucial role in agriculture but their contributions are least recognized.
They are engaged in different odd jobs like weeding, transplanting and spraying insecticides and pesticides to crops without taking any preventive measures or personal protective equipment thereby exposing themselves to toxic effects of insecticides.
Farm women also suffer from different type of health hazards like physical hazard, biological hazard, chemical hazard and psychological hazard.
The project is targeted to cover farm women of 20 selected villages under Thoubal district in Manipur, Debasis stated.
Later, Dinabhandu Sahoo, director IBSD Government of India, released the Health Manual Book of the project.