Medical Services In Manipur

Following action against some primary schoolteachers, who were themselves enrolled as students in various medical and agriculture colleges and attending classes there, 30 such teachers have resigned in Manipur over the last few weeks.

34-year-old Shutho Nyuthe is a government school teacher who came from Nagaland's capital Kohima to Manipur's capital Imphal for a critical kidney transplant. After a successful operation, he has been discharged yet he is worried if he can make it back home.

An economic blockade on Manipur's main national highway over the last three months has left medical services in the state severely affected. At Imphal's largest critical care hospital, doctors are worried. Oxygen supplies are down to a bare minimum, and the emergency stock of anaesthesia is down to just one day. Says Dr Sorokhaibam Jugindra, the Me...

Following action against some primary schoolteachers, who were themselves enrolled as students in various medical and agriculture colleges and attending classes there, 30 such teachers have resigned in Manipur over the last few weeks.

34-year-old Shutho Nyuthe is a government school teacher who came from Nagaland's capital Kohima to Manipur's capital Imphal for a critical kidney transplant. After a successful operation, he has been discharged yet he is worried if he can make it back home.

An economic blockade on Manipur's main national highway over the last three months has left medical services in the state severely affected. At Imphal's largest critical care hospital, doctors are worried. Oxygen supplies are down to a bare minimum, and the emergency stock of anaesthesia is down to just one day. Says Dr Sorokhaibam Jugindra, the Me...