'HR important'
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, April 18 2018:
Expressing concern over the growing level of crimes against women in the State, Health Minister L Jayantakumar has opined that grooming human resource by providing abundant knowledge and inputs to the adolescents will be an important step in curbing the menace of sexual crimes in the society.
He was speaking as the chief guest at the "One day State Level Convergence Workshop on Weekly Iron Folic Acid Supplementation Programme (WIFS)" organized by SHS, National Health Mission, at Hotel Imphal today.
Stating that the mindset and behaviour of rapists and sexual offenders are repulsive and different from that of normal people, the Health Minister observed that there can be a good society if adolescents are groomed with proper education thereby making them mentally and physically sound.
Infrastructure development in the State will be meaningless if the State has no qualitative human resource, he added.
The adolescence period is the most important phase of an individual as it basically shapes the future course of the individual's life.
Hence all ideas and concepts that are essential in later stages of life by an individual should be taught during the adolescence stage, he said.
Noting that a society needs good mothers to produce good children for a better future, Jayantakumar further underscored the importance of making the mothers healthy and fit.
He then called upon the officials of the Health, Education and Social Welfare Departments to give common thrust on these areas and collectively strive towards catering the basic needs of adolescents in the State, including mental and physical support.
Jayantakumar added that the theme of the workshop is creating a strong Nation through production of healthy and qualitative human resource.
On the other hand, Dr Jubilee Wahengbam, State Nodal Officer, Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK) conveyed that the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare launched RKSK as a National health program in the month of January, 2014.She continued that the health program was launched with the objective of ensuring health and other basic requirements for the adolescents.
Highlighting the numerous health related issues among the adolescents of the country, including deprivation of nutritional food and ill-treatment of adolescent girls, Dr Jubilee informed that many programmes which focus on catering essential needs for adolescents and children are being taken up in the country by the Government.
She added that such programmes are also implemented by the State Government.
The workshop was also attended by Dr H Ranjit, Additional Director, Health Services, Dr RK Tenedy, Additional Director, Education (S), Dr P Shyamsundar, Additional Director, Health Services and Dr Surrender A Sikshak, State Project Coordinator, State Women Resource Centre as presidium members.