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HEALTH CARE: Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss distributing a health card to a pregnant woman at a medical camp in Vandavasi on Sunday. VANDAVASI: Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Anbumani Ramadoss has urged the State government to close down the Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) shops run by the Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (TASMAC) to rescue the youth from the clutches of liquor. He was inaugurating a special medical camp organised by the Tiruvannamalai district administration, the Vandavasi Municipality and the Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, the Cheyyar Health Unit District under the ‘Varumun Kappom Thittam’ at Government Girls Higher Secondary School here on Sunday. Dr. Ramadoss said a survey conducted by the World Health Organisation revealed that 16 per cent of the youth in the 13-15 age group in India had the habit of smoking. The average age at which a person started consuming liquor was 19. “The government might say that excise revenue from the sale of the IMFL in the TASMAC shops has gone up from Rs. 4,000 crore to Rs. 8,000 core a year in the last two years. But we do not need that revenue. As Union Health Minister and a Tamilian, I request the State government to close down the IMFL shops”, he said. Dr. Ramadoss said that the youths suffered from four kinds of addiction - to tobacco, alcohol, drugs and junk food. A chips packet available in the market would give 500 calories from fat and a cola drink would give seven teaspoons of sugar. A massive awareness programme should be launched throughout the country to warn the parents and the youth against the harmful effects of such products, he said. Dr. Ramadoss said that the Centre provided funds for the appointment of an additional doctor and three nurses on contract basis in each primary health centre and an additional nurse on contract basis in each health sub-centre (HSC). Besides, it gives Rs.25,000 a year to each HSC for the purchase of vital drugs. Under the Janani Suraksha Yojana, Rs.700 each is given to pregnant women who come to government health institutions for delivery. R. Velu, Union Minister of State for Railways, said that only one anti-retroviral therapy (ART) centre for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome-affected persons was functioning in Tiruvannamalai district. More ART centres should be set up in the district, he said. Gingee N. Ramachandran, Vandavasi MP, E. Ponnusamy, Chidambaram MP, S.P. Jayaraman, Vandavasi MLA, G. Edhiroli Manian, Peranamallur MLA, M.S. Dharanivendhan, chairman, Vandavasi panchayat union, and K.R. Seethapathi, chairman, Thellar panchayat union, spoke. K.S.T. Suresh, Deputy Director of Health Services, Cheyyar, read out the project report.
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