Our Reporter Dimapur, Aug. 24 (EMN): The Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs, Nirmala Sitharaman, inaugurated a new dialysis centre at District Hospital Dimapur in the presence of Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio on Wednesday. The facility is a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative of Boeing India, implemented by Doctors For You in collaboration with Department of Health and Family Welfare and Investment and Development Authority of Nagaland (IDAN). The medical superintendent of Dimapur District Hospital, Dr. Khrielasanuo Metha, informed that at present, the District Hospital has four functional dialysis machines. Considering the increasing incidence of chronic renal failures, the hospital is unable to meet the demands for dialysis services, and as a result, patients are compelled to seek treatment elsewhere, leading to undue physical, mental and financial burden to patients as dialysis is required every few days, she shared. She stated that in the midst of acute short
Our Correspondent Kohima, Aug. 23 (EMN): The two-day Nagaland CSR and Investment Conclave concluded on Tuesday with promises for partnership and investment. Minister of Planning and Coordination, Land Revenue and Parliamentary Affairs, Neiba Kronu, addressed the valedictory session held at NBCC Convention Centre in Kohima. He called upon the delegates from various agencies across the country to be ambassadors for the state of Nagaland. He urged investors and banks to invest in the state as there is huge scope and potential with resources that are still unexplored, and Nagaland being one of the hotspot diversity areas in the world. Maintaining that under externally funded projects, Asian Development Bank (ADB) and World Bank are coming to invest in the state, he said that nationalised banks were also present during the conclave and expressed hope that they will invest in the state. Further, Kronu expressed gratitude to all the participants for coming forward and taking part in the concl
Dimapur, Aug. 23 (EMN): Highlighting that the North Eastern states are really deprived as it does not attract corporate social responsibility (CSR) funds, the founder of YouthNet, Hekani Jakhalu, has urged upon the Union Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, to make CSR mandatory for NE states. “Even if a minimum of 1% of INR 1.25 lakh crore is made mandatory for the North East, it will have an immense impact in the lives of hundreds and thousands of people in the NE and uplift the development of the region,” said Hekani during the inaugural programme of the ongoing Nagaland CSR and Investment Conclave in Kohima on August 22. Hekani also reminded the Union Finance Minister that nothing was impossible for the government to commit for the larger interest of the common good, an update from YouthNet stated. It stated that since 2006, YouthNet has impacted over 1.20 lakh lives in the field of education, development, entrepreneurship and livelihood in partnership with the government an
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