Tuberculosis talk
The State Health Society organised a workshop on tuberculosis on Monday. "So far 64,000 tuberculosis patients have got themselves registered in the centre-run government hospitals while another 27000 patients have got themselves registered in state-run hospitals," said state programme officer, tuberculosis, K.N. Sahay.
Deputy chairperson of Bihar State Child Labour Commission Anita Sinha expressed concern on the practice of wrong medication given to tuberculosis patients by quacks in the villages. "Quacks not only give wrong medicines to the patients but they also misguide the patients stating that they have a short life expectancy due to the disease. However, if tuberculosis patients are given medicines in the initial stage of their disease, they can be cured," said Sinha.
Sinha also asked the State Health Society authorities to organise the tuberculosis awareness programmes in villages. "Instead of organising these programmes in such type of hotels, you should organise these programmes in the schools and anganwadi centres," she said.
Annual function
Oxbridge Convent High School on Monday celebrated its annual function at Premchand Rangshala on Monday. The chief guest of the event was Bankipore MLA Nitin Naveen and the guest of honour were Kumhrar MLA Arun Kumar Sinha, MLC Sanjay Mayuk and Anil Sulabh, chairman of Bihar Hindi Sahitya Sammelan.
Various cultural programmes were presented by school students on the occasion. The themes of the programme were women empowerment and patriotism. The school choir performed Saraswati and Ganesha vandana dance. The audience was spellbound by the dance performance of students in traditional, thematic, and hip-hop style.
Senior students performed two skits - one based on a ghost story and another based on the life of Lord Krishna. The best student of the year title was bestowed to Ritesh Kumar, a student of Class IX while the best attendance award was bagged by Aarti Verma of Class II. Upendra Kumar got the award for best teacher and Hindi teacher Ranjana Kumari got the title of most devoted teacher of the year.
