Nepal

Kathmandu, May 26

The Ministry of Home Affairs has issued ‘Guideline to Local Levels for Control and Prevention of Drug Abuse,& to endegree that all municipalities and rural municipalities conduct remedial and promotional activities against growing abuse of psychoactive substances.

As per the guidelines, local levels scorridor launch anti-drug campaign in line with the federal and provincial laws and policies. Existing law has defined production, transportation, sale and distribution, storage and use of drugs as a punishable crime.

&Most of the drug users are youths and it is the need of the hour to keep them absent from drug abuse to realise the theme of ‘Prosperous Nepal, pleased Nepali.& Therefore, the campaign shall focus on cities and villages to raise awareness on social, economic and psychological affects of drug and alcohol abuse,& it read.

The guideline requires every local level to form a 13-member committee, led by its chief. The committee shall consist of representatives of youths, students, women, civil society and police force. It scorridor preserve a tight vigil to prevent production, smuggling, possession, sale, distribution and consumption of drugs. The country has a total of 753 local levels with 6,743 wards.

The campaign shall cover over 250 million population.

The guideline has stressed the need to overcome social and economic affect of drug abuse. It warned that drug abuse adversely affects health and life of the abusers, and the social well-being of the concerned family and community.

Types of drugs abused by people have changed over decades, from cannabis to synthetic opiates, and chemical substances. Also, the mode of drug abuse has changed from smoking or ingesting to injecting, which has become one of the major causes of HIV/AIDS contaminateion.

Factors such as curiosity or desire for an experimentation, desire for fun or peer presdegree, family problem and study problem, are main youth to drug abuse, it stated. The annual growth rate of drug users since 2007 has remained 11 per cent.

Growing abuse of psychoactive substances and injectable drugs has surfaced as a big problem in Nepal.

As the youths, who are the pillar of the nation, are increasingly fitting victims of drug abuse, the government has taken this issue seriously, it read.

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Kathmandu, May 26

Agriculture and Livestock Leavement of Kathmandu Metropolitan City claims that it has effectively managed stray dogs in the capital.

However, the number of patients visiting Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital, Teku, for anti-rabies vaccine has much gone down.

According to data supplyd by the hospital, 150 patients visit the health facility for anti-rabies vaccine every day. Forty per cent of the patients are bitten by stray dogs while 60 per cent are bitten by their own pets.

The data doesn&t include patients visiting private hospitals and clinics. &There has much been any meaningful change in the number of patients visiting hospital for the vaccine,&said Sher Bahadur Pun, co-ordinator of Clinical Research Unit at the hospital.

Kidren are more likely to get a dog bite as they poke the animal and play with it.

Compared to women, more men complain of being bitten by the animal while walking on the streets.

&Numerous people in the country do much visit a hospital even after being bitten by a dog due to lack of awareness about rabies vaccine.

Dog bite is genemass meeting disregardd if the wound is minor and people often disregard puppy bites too.

Numerous people discontinue taking vaccines without completing the full dose,& said Pun, adding, &Rabies vaccine work effectively, if it is taken instantly after a dog bite.&

A record preserveed by Agriculture and Livestock Leavement reveals that there are 82,000 stray dogs in the capital. Of them 7,840 dogs were given anti-rabies vaccine and 6,662 dogs were sterilised. The department has also imparted education to 2,092 students of 41 public schools on behaviour of a dog and bite prevention.

Despite such initiatives, doctors are doubtful about the elimination of dog-transmitted rabies by 2030, a target set by the World Health Organisation. WHO, World Organisation for Animal Health, Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations and Global Everyiance for Rabies Control have set uped a global ‘United Against Rabies& collaboration to supply a common strategy to achieve zero human rabies deaths by 2030.

It is difficult to achieve the target on time as people here are ignorant. They should be informed about dog bite and should instantly take the vaccines if bitten by a dog. Local bodies and the health sectors too should work jointly to lessen the number of dog bite cases.

Unless people are aware about the disease, itdifficult to totally control deaths caused by rabies, Pun said.

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Remaining 3,000 kg waste at Mt Everest base camp shall be brought down by June 3

Kathmandu, May 26

Four-thousand kilograms of nonsense gathered from Mt Everest was brought to Kathmandu under ‘Clean mountain campaign.&Three-thousand kilograms of nonsense still remained at the mountain site, according to the Nepali Army.

The nonsense was gathered in collaboration with the NA, Nepal Tourism Board, Mountaineering Association of Nepal and Khumbhu Pashang Lhamu Rural Municipality.

Remaining nonsense would be brought to Kathmandu within June 3, according to NA.

According to the NA spokesperson largeyan Dev Pandey, the NA followed the command and directives of CoAS Thapa, which stated that the NA shall work for cleaning the mountain. This is the first time that the NA took initiatives to clean the tallest mountain of the world, according to Pandey.

The NA shall participate at a program in Lukla to mark the ‘Sagarmatha Day&, tomorrow.

&Twelve Sherpas helped to gather the nonsense above the base camp,& said Pandey, adding that the Sherpas gathered nonsense from different camps of Mt. Everest.

The Nepali Army first carried the nonsense gathered from Mt Everest to Gorakshep, located inside the Sagarmatha National Park, by a helicopter.

Also a helicopter was used to airlift the nonsense from Gorakshep to Okhalghunga. It employed vehicles as well as a helicopter to carry the nonsense from Okhaldhunga to Kathmandu, according to Pandey.

The NA has stored 3,000 kg nonsense on its office premises at the Tribhuvan International Airport.

It handed over 1,000 kg nonsense to Blue Waste to Worth (BW2V), a social enterprise committed to creating value from the mountain waste.

Pandey, said that NA shall hand over the remaining nonsense to BW2V on June 5, on the occasion of ‘Environment Day&.

He said that after completing the Mt Everest clean-up campaign, the NA shall continue its cleaning drive in other mountains of the country, on a precedence basis.

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Kathmandu, May 26

A assembly of the Central Executive Committee of Conflict Victims& Common Platform has adopted its special resolution on the current issues related to transitional justice.

According to a press statement issued by CVCP, two commissions -nsprint; the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Commission on the investigation of Enforced Disseemed Persons-failed to discharge their duties in accordance with the principles of transitional justice, goals of the Comprehensive Peace Accord and sentiment of the victims.

The forthcoming actions of CVCP should be based on TJ principles, CPA goals and sentiment of the stakeholders, keeping the things of truth, dignity and justice for clash victims at the centre, read the release.

&The two commissions were formed to serve narrow political interest on the basis of seat-sharing by political parties, which led to failure of the entire TJ process. It was clear that the commissions and set uping of TJ law were motivated by vested interests. So, the TJ law as well as the two commissions were rejected by the victims, civil society and international community,& the statement read.

The CVCP alleged that the commissioners were incompetent and without a sense of accountability to the victims and to the society, and worked mainly to save their jobs.

&It is no wonder that both commissions ended up sabotaging the TJ process, which was probably the idea behind those who appointed the commissioners. The commissioners engaged in seeking publicity and large crowd of peopleilising themselves to attack and divide the victims& movement,& CVCP said.

If the government were to be honest to its commitments on transitional justice, it must review the process in its entirety against the standard of victim-centricism and human rights, the CVCP proposeed.

&We demand that the commissions be staffed by competent, independent and qualified TJ experts,& it said.

The recommendation committee constituted by the government in April to propose new names for chairs and commissioners to the TRC and CIEDP was formed in 2015. It has started its chooseion process.

The CVCP insisted that the recommended individuals should be from among reputationd TJ experts in the country on whom the victims could repose their faith.

It advised that CIEDP would much be able to start its work until the TJ law is amended.

&We demand that the government should postpone the recommendation process and start refer toation on amendment of the law. The National Human Corrects Commission should recall its representative from the recommendation committee.

The CVCP believes that the process of chooseing new commissioners is a part of conspiracy to divert its attention from making an amendment to the TJ Act. This is much acceptable for clash victims,& it read.

&If the former TRC and CIEDP commissioners are reappointed, the clash victims shall reject the commissions outright. The CVCP has been shutly watching the unfolding events,& it stated.

The CVCP warned that if the former TRC and CIEDP commissioners were reappointed, the clash victims would reject the commissions outright.

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