Permanent rehab centre to be set up in Udupi district
- | Thursday | 16th February, 2017
Rohini, District Health and Family Welfare Officer, said that 28 screening camps were held in the district for endosulfan victims. Dinakar Babu, president of the Zilla Panchayat, Sheela K. Shetty, vice-president, Priyanka Mary Francis, Chief Executive Officer of the Zilla Panchayat, Shilpa Nag, Assistant Commissioner, G. Anuradha, Additional Deputy Commissioner, representatives of various voluntary organizations, were present. They should do a survey of those villages that were left out in the previous survey to identify endosulfan victims. They should dispose of the applications seeking monthly pensions for endosulfan victims as soon as possible. At present, monthly pensions were being given to 1,295 endosulfan victims, she said.
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