Seminar on Access to essential medicine & people's health held
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, October 23 2011:
A seminar on Access to Essential Medicine and People's Health was held here at the Tribal Research Institute, Auditorium Hall, Chingmeirong, organized by the CRU (NER) Centre of Medical and Sales Representatives' Union Imphal toady.
Amitava Guha, National Co-ordinator, Peoples' Health Assembly (FMRAI), Prof GM Moirangthem, Dr Chinglen Meisnam, Asst Prof, MU, Dr Dhanabir Laishram and Shanta of CITU also attended the seminar Speaking on the occasion, N Dilipkumar, President Centre of Medical and Sales Representatives' Union Imphal said that the Indian government is providing quality health care facilities and free medicines to the poor people of the country under various schemes.
This has been taken up by the government to ensure a healthy standard of living to its people.
But there are apprehensions as to whether the free medicines and health care facilities given to the people actually reach the targeted people.
He further went on to say that the Union has initiated NRHM to provide health care facilities to the people.
Under the mission the people are also to be given free medicines.
But unfortunately the concern authorities do not bothered to make the medicines reach freely to the people.
Some of the doctors take the medicines home while some of the medicines are spoilt as they have crossed the expiry date before being distributed to the people.
The Health Department needs to check these happenings.
In some of the developed countries, a person's health and education is insured by the government from zero year till they pass their degree.
But in our country, when one gets sick he himself have to buy medicines and get treated.
Those people who cannot afford to buy the medicines are left to die.
The very little medicines provided by the government to the poor people are being misused on the way, he lamented.