Day: December 6, 2013

IMPHAL, December 6:  Prof S Sekharjit, Director of Regional Institute of Medical Sciences today inaugurated the two-day training programme on the assessment of immune deterioration of the HIV positive persons at the Jubilee hall.

Welcoming the participants from many states of eastern India he said the laboratory technicians are the backbone of NACO. He hoped that they would gain knowledge from the training and help ensure 100 per cent correct laboratory results. “Human errors in such testings created problems. With the fast developing technologies he feels that the machines will be improved to marginalize human errors,” he stated.

The training programme is organised by NACO and BD Biosciences. RIMS has been using FACS count machine since 2002. The objective of the training is to provide good laboratory practice for the laboratory technicians from Manipur and other states of eastern India.

Prof Brajachand of Microbiology department, RIMS said that there are 35.3 million HIV positive people in the world. India has 2.4 million of which 43,882 persons are in Manipur. Till September this year Ukhrul registered the highest number of HIV positive people; the official percentage is 2.5. He underlined the importance of quality control in laboratory testings.

Prof Sulochana, head of department of Microbiology reminded the people that AIDS is still incurable. The only way left to the people is to prevent it through awareness.

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IMPHAL, December 6: Parliamentary Secretary of Tourism, M Prithiviraj today distributed awards to the winners of the photo and essay competitions conducted by the department in connection with the Manipur Sangai Festival, 2013, in his office chamber.

The competition was categorised under three themes which included “Nature Including Landscape of Manipur”, “Significant Tourist Spots/Destinations of Manipur” and “People Including Festivals”.

In the first category RK Bullu Singh of Poknapham bagged the first prize with a cash incentive of Rs 25,000 and a citation. L Santoshkumar Singh of Wangkhei bagged the second prize and Rs 10,000 and a citation while M Subash Singh of Langjing Achouba and A Jayananda Singh Wangkhei Khunou, jointly bagged the third prize and walked away with Rs 25,000 and citation each.

The cash amount was similar for the remaining two categories.

In the second category, significant tourist spots/destination of Manipur, L Vusan Singh of Wankhei Yonglan Leirak bagged the first prize, while M Bishwajit Singh of Moirang Bazaar and M Ranjit Singh of Keishampat Top Leirak, bagged the second the third places respectively.

N Basant Singh of Samaram Bamol Leikai, bagged the first prize in the category “People Including Festivals” and Binod Angom of Soibam Leikai Wangkhei Khunou bagged the second prize while Ronel Seram and Bachaspatimyayum Bisheswar Sharma of Aribam Leikai jointly got the third prize.

Meanwhile, H Dileshwar Singh, lecturer of Advance Intermediate College, Moirang walked away with the first prize in the essay competition on the theme “Tourism can be game changer in the economy of Manipur”. He received a cash prize of Rs 6,000 and citation.

The second prize was bagged by W Hennary Chanu, a class VIII of KM Blooming Higher Secondary School, Khangabok, having Rs 4,000 in cash and a citation.

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