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on 06-Mar-04 01:54 AM
After spending quite a sum for Gyanendra's fleet of cars, and increase of salary, as well as for unnecessary war, here is what left for us.(read the news below).
And think about this, we get donations for our polio eradication program.Although I enquired to only one doctor regarding polio programming in Nepal, he said if a suspected sample of polio is found, we have to send the sample to Thailand just to make sure it is/isnot polio. I mean think of inanity of it. In a real case of polio, we will be squandering money and time both. Although we don't have polio case lately, we live right next to the Indian states that still account for more than four fifth of world's polio cases. The only successful elimination program ever launched was smallpox elimination program and it was a part of global effort. Malaria unmoolan is heading nowhere. We don't have our own independent research centers for contaminated water related diseases which claims thousands of our citizens each year, and our baal mrityu dar/maatri mrityu dar is among the highest in the world.
Our people are our strength. If we don't gear up to save them, who will. Meantime, let's stop funding the lavish life of the king.
News from today's nepalnews.com
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Budget crunch hits anti-Encephalitis vaccination program
The government’s anti-Japanese Encephalitis vaccination program to be launched in a number of Terai districts is facing uncertainty with donors turning their back, a Nepal Samacharpatra report said Saturday.
Some 250 thousand Terai people were supposed to get anti-Japanese Encephalitis vaccines this year. The disease takes an epidemic shape in some of the Terai districts.
Although the government had announced the program, report said, no budget has been allocated for it. Quoting Health Ministry sources, the report mentioned the government has had approached a number of donor agencies but none have shown interest to date.
As announced in the fiscal budget, it would cost an estimated 220 million rupees to vaccinate 250 hundred people. “We are surprised how the program figured in the fiscal budget whereas no budget has been allocated,” report quoted ministry officials as saying.
Tens of thousand of people in Terai areas are exposed to the risk of Japanese Encephalitis. The disease that is a huge problem in most of the South East Asian countries claims hundreds of lives every year in Nepal. Last year, 142 people had died of Japanese Encephalitis.
Dang, Banke, Bardia, Kalilai and Kacnchanpur have been categorized as most affected districts where dozens die each year.
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