Overdose awareness, memorial day held
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 31 2013 :
SASO, MNP+ and Care Foundation have jointly observed overdose awareness and memorial day under the theme "Unnecessary death" at Wahengbam Leikai, Brajanath Mandop near SASO Head Office here today.
Giving the keynote address at the occasion, A Arjun, General Secretary SASO stressed on the increasing number of deaths due to lack of awareness and drug overdose.
"As the life saving medicine to treat drug overdose occurred to a drug user is not available easily in the market, the user cannot be saved more often and so the number of death due to drug overdose hugely increased" .
The awareness programme is organised in an attempt to prevent from unnecessary death due to drug overdose, he added.
During the occasion, Dr Shyamjai, Deputy Director (Target Intervention) of MACS said that drug overdose was rarely reported upto the 15 years of MACS existence since its establishment in March, 1998 .