Protest held
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, March 12 2015:
Locality Improvement Committee (LIC) along with Society for Women Empowerment staged a sit in protest against the stigmatization of a locality and the family of the Swine Flu victim by other people.
Member of LIC, Chungkham Romeo said that the State authority should conduct mass awareness campaign in various parts of the State to dispel such notions of stigmatizing areas where there are Swine Flu victims.
Moreover the health authority should work in the field and not only on paper.
The protesters asked the State authority to provide the Manipur State Illness Assistance Fund to the victim family before the Saradha ceremony of the deceased.
Incidents of children of the victim family being left out by school van service shows the degree of stigmatization, Romeo said while adding that such attitude should be done away with.
The protesters appealed the State Government to set up Swine Flu diagnostic and testing centers in the State as soon as possible.