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Why stop non-veg food sale at hospital, asks Meghalaya party

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Shillong, Nov 15 (IANS) Meghalaya’s opposition Hill State People’s Democratic Party (HSPDP) on Wednesday voiced concern at “stopping” of sale of non-vegetarian food at the government-owned North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS).

In a letter to Union Health and Family Welfare Minister J.P. Nadda, HSPDP legislator Ardent Miller Basaiawmoit said sale of non-vegetarian food at the super specialty hospital has been stopped since D.M. Thappa joined as Director of the medical institute.

“The public has approached us (HSPDP) and vented their anger. We have sent our investigating team and found some truth in it. This is ill-founded on the part of the Director of NEIGRIHMS,” Basaiawmoit said.

“This is an attack on the food habits of the indigenous people of northeast and has not been taken in good taste,” the HSPDP legislator wrote.

Condemning this act, Basaiawmoit urged Nadda to direct the institute authorities to restore the sale of non-vegetarian food at the food outlets in NEIGRIHMS.

NEIGRIHMS has been designed on the lines of the premier All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi, and Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) in Chandigarh.

The hospital was built at an estimated cost of Rs 420 crore and has a 30-bed Intensive Care Unit and 35 specialty and super specialty departments.

Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had declared NEIGRIHMS a national institute on January 22, 2000, when he visited Shillong.

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Even though Karnataka recorded the lowest number of Covid deaths in April since the virus struck first in 2020, the state is recording a rise in the positivity rate (1.50 per cent). Five people died from the Covid infections in April as per the statistics released by the state health department. In March, the positivity rate stood around 0.53 per cent. In the first week of April it came down to 0.38 per cent, second week registered 0.56 per cent, third week it rose to 0.79 per cent and by end of April the Covid positivity rate touched 1.19 per cent.

on an average 500 persons used to succumb everyday in the peak of Covid infection, as per the data. Health experts said that the mutated Coronavirus is losing its fierce characteristics as vaccination, better treatment facilities and awareness among the people have contributed to the lesser number of Covid deaths.

During the 4th and 6th of April two deaths were reported in Bengaluru, one in Gadag district on April 8, two deaths were reported from Belagavi and Vijayapura on April 30. The first Covid case was reported in the state in March 2020 and three Covid deaths were recorded in the month. In the following month 21 people became victims to the deadly virus, and May 2020 recorded 22 deaths. The death toll recorded everyday after May crossed three digits. However, the third wave, which started in January 2

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