C-NES Orientation Meet
An orientation meet was organized by C-NES on 11th December, 2008 at Hotel Alankar, Guwahati for new members joining the organization’s Boat Clinic program. This programme is to be upscaled to include 5 more districts- North Lakhimpur, Jorhat, Sonitpur, Nalbari and Barpeta from January 2009. Five District Community Organizers were recruited for the clinics in these districts.
After a brief introductory session, the Managing Trustee, C-NES, Mr Sanjoy Hazarika welcomed the new members to the organization. He said that they would have to work with passion to restore the faith of the people in themselves and in governance. “Sustained health care is a basic human right which we will be delivering,” he said.
Dr J B Ekka, Mission Director, NRHM, also present at the meet, spoke about the “missionary zeal” with which the boat clinic members have been working, serving with sincerity and dedication. The kind of respect that they have been getting from the beneficiaries is something which doctors serving in urban areas seldom get. Highlighting the C-NES- NRHM Partnership, he said that “with this partnership, the people of Assam will benefit.”
There were presentations on the Boat Clinic Program by Amrit Bora, DCO, Dibrugarh, “Health for all” by Sanjay Sharma, Associate Programme Manager, Boat Clinic Programme. In addition, there were descriptions of other C-NES projects and activities mainly on the Dolphin Initiative by Manik Boruah, Enterprise Specialist and Bhaskar Saud, Project officer, Dolphin Conservation Project and on Reporting and Documentation by Bhaswati Goswami, Communications Officer, C-NES.
Juri Gogoi, Education Officer, C-NES (Dibrugarh) and Dr Hafizur Rahman, Medical Officer, Dhemaji Boat Clinic shared their experiences.
An active break out session was conducted with all participating on preparing and planning for the new districts.
The names of DCO’s in the current and new districts are given below: Amrit Kumar Borah (Dibrugarh, Current), Hiranya Deka, (Tinsukia, current), Dulu Bura Gohain (Dhemaji, current), Abul Kalam Azad, (Morigaon, current, ) Mehebub Alom Hazarika (Dhubri, current), Ms. Mousumi Duwerah (Sonitpur, new), Tapan Borah (North Lakhimpur, new), Parvis Ahmed (Nalbari, new) Probin Chamuah (Jorhat, new) and Syamjit Pashi ( Barpeta, new).