{"id":94335,"date":"2016-11-26T23:57:17","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T23:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2016\/11\/26\/ati-training-on-consumer-rights-concludes\/"},"modified":"2016-11-26T23:57:17","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T23:57:17","slug":"ati-training-on-consumer-rights-concludes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2016\/11\/26\/ati-training-on-consumer-rights-concludes\/","title":{"rendered":"ATI training on \u2018Consumer Rights\u2019 concludes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/><\/p>\n<div>Two-day training on \u2018Consumer Rights\u2019 conducted by Administrative Training Institute (ATI) concluded on November 25.<\/div>\n<div>A brief function was organised on the last day during which certificates were given to all the participants by the president of Nagaland Voluntary Consumers\u2019 Organisation (NVCO) and the recipient of First Prize National Youth Award on Consumer Protection Kezhokhoto Savi who was also one of the resource persons, NVCO Press &amp; Media Cell informed through a press note.<\/div>\n<div>Speaking on the occasion, Savi extended gratitude to ATI for conducting the training which, he said, was important to create awareness amongst the citizens and even this topic was chosen at the right time- festive season when price of commodities tend to rise. \u201cIt is very important for every citizen as a \u2018Consumer\u2019 to know their rights and duties so as to protect themselves from all the unscrupulous traders,\u201d he stated. Savi also highlighted several topics\/legal provisions which concern the rights of the \u2018Consumers\u2019 during the training.<\/div>\n<div>He informed that much of the daily food items including medicine were unsafe and as a case in point shared how a patient suffered after consuming expired pill bought from a chemist in Kohima in September last and another incident where a pharmacy owner was arrested in Kohima this month for running shop without proper qualification.<\/div>\n<div>In this regard, NVCO has reacted to the news \u201cdrawing the attention to pharmacists without knowledge of medicine\u201d published in local dailies saying, \u201cwithout having knowledge of medicine is not to refer to \u2018Pharmacists\u2019 but the owner of New S.T. Pharmacy who was running and selling medicine having no knowledge of medicine and even does not possess any requisite qualification on pharmacy such as degree\/diploma\/certificate and he had also admitted before the police that he is just learning by running and selling medicine by himself.\u201d &nbsp;NVCO maintained that the role of Pharmacist is very important as the pharmacists are the legal person to handle medicine.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>It therefore appealed to the district administration and concerned authority to take immediate measures so as to control and do away with the shortcomings of proper practices such as selling expired medicine, sub-standard, running the business without license and also without registered concerned, recruiting salesman, etc.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Further, NVCO has also questioned the state government particularly the concerned authority as to why the existing strength of 490 pharmacists (posts) had to be slashed down to 309 posts while there was shortage of pharmacists even in government health centres such as Primary Health Centre and Sub-Centre.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cWithout pharmacists where is the security of health care when the legal person who is solely handling medicine is not placed at the health care centres and this is also in contrary to National Health Policy 2015?,\u201d NVCO questioned.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-day training on \u2018Consumer Rights\u2019 conducted by Administrative Training Institute (ATI) concluded on November 25. A brief function was organised on the last day during which certificates were given to all the participants by the president of Nagaland Voluntary Consumers\u2019 Organisation (NVCO) and the recipient of First Prize National Youth Award on Consumer Protection Kezhokhoto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}