PM CONVENES MEET OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE
Kathmandu, 12 Jan. Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has convened a meeting of a special committee for integration, resettlement and supervision of former Maoists he heads as UNMN prepares to quit Saturday.
Maoists and UML have urged a body of the Big Three for monitoring arguing the special can’t do the job after UN withdrawal.
UNMIN Chief Karin Karin Landgren has called for an ‘eleventh hour’ agreement between on a monitoring mechanism before Saturday.
Landgren said the arms and ammunition is containers at seven cantonments and Chauni belong to Maoists and Nepal Army respectively.
Three days remain before UN quits Nepal.
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COMMITTEE TO DRAFT CA REGULATION FORMED
Kathmandu, 12 Jan.: The first meeting of the constituent assembly (CA) in six months Tuesday formed a five-member committee to draft an amendment of assembly regulations.
The amendment will empower the main constituent drafting committee to write without agreement of contentious issues.
Maoist Chef Whip Post Bahadur Bogati, Ekraj Bhandari from Maoists, Pushpa Bhusal of NC, Dhirendra Bahadur Shrestha [UML[, Brijesh Gupta of TMLP and Santa Bahadur Nepali of Rashtriya Janamorcha are members. Their names were unanimously approved.
Twenty-parties are currently discussing 83 such issues.
The CA meets again 17 January.
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SAMUEL TAMRAT ARRIVES

Kathmandu, 12 Jan.: Senior UN official Samuel Tamrat arrived Tuesday night for consultations coinciding with the retreat from Nepal of UNMIN Saturday.
Tamrat was deputy of Ian Martin, special representative of the secretary-general, when the UN fist came to Nepal three years ago.
The status of UNMIN head was down-sized to a chief representative after the April 2008 constituent assembly elections.
NEPAL SHOULDN’T BE ANOTHER HAITI SAYS US ENVOY
Kathmandu, 12 Jan.: US Ambassador Scott H. DeLisi said Nepal shouldn’t be’ another Haiti’ coinciding with the first anniversary of a devastating earthquake Wednesday in the Caribbean island claiming 220,000 lives.
Another 300,000 were injured leaving nearly 2 million people homeless.
DeLisi said Nepal should ‘prepare itself for a major disaster”.
“While this means addressing big issues like better building construction and first-responder training, it also means raising awareness among the general public about what to do in the event of a disaster,” a statement issued by the US embassy said.
Nepal’s biggest earthquake in 1934 claimed more than 8,0000 lives when the population was small.
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“The U.S. applauds the Government of Nepal’s recent inauguration of the Emergency Operations Center located on the grounds of the Home Ministry. This is an important step in establishing a communication hub for the coordination of humanitarian assistance,” the statement added.
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THREE DEAD IN GULMI JEET ACCIDENT
Kathmandu, 12 Jan.: Three persons died overnight in a jeep accident at Purtighat in Gulmi.
Nine passengers were injured.
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HOME DIALYSIS NOT POPULAR





Kathmandu, 12 Jan.: - Despite its various benefits, Home Dialysis has been adopted by only a few patients with renal failure due to lack of proper information, The Rising Nepal reports.
So far, there are only 42 people in Nepal do dialysis at home. Many still do not know they can as well as some get afraid to try it.
Dr. Pukar Chandra Shrestha, transplant surgeon of Bir Hospital said that in abroad home hemodialysis was very popular and more than 50 per cent people who need to dialysis adopt it.
Only TU Teaching Hospital around the country offer training and support for Home Dialysis. The service began in 2008. Only around 20 patients of TU Teaching Hospital’s use to home dialysis, Nephrologists Dr. Deebya Shingh of the hospital said.
According to Dr. Shingh around one weeks training for patients was enough for adopt home dialysis.
In this process, people may dialysis through two ways. Once by machine (he or she can dialysis every night while he sleeps wheeling the dialysis machine in his arms) and another by manually (peritoneal dialysis) which should be done three or four times in a day according to patients situation.
Due to the machine’s high cost around 500,000, it was not very popular in Nepal, Dr. Shingh said. Some two patients are under taken it, she said. In peritoneal dialysis, doctor should implant catheter, a flexible tube that can be inserted into the body creating a channel for the passage of fluid or the entry of a medical device once. Patients should be highly aware about neat and clean to avoid infection.
Raj Kumar Shaha, a renal failure patient has been doing home dialysis since eights months four times in a day himself. It takes Shah around 30 minutes to perform the dialysis at a go..
The fluid which need for dialysis is also highly costly however, in the health perspective home dialysis is very effective, Shaha said. According to Shaha, around 25,000 rupees needed for fluid for a month.
People who prefer home dialysis say it’s more convenient, allowing them to set their own schedules and even travel with their dialysis. They also like the idea of cleansing their blood of toxins more often

because they feel better and don’t need to take as many drugs and it is a blood saving process.
In many kidney failure cases people should under take dialysis over his life.
Homodialysis should do two or three times in a week and it takes four hour at once. There may be high chance of infection due to the crowed in hospital. Similarly, in hemodialysis doctors prefer to minimize the food consumption.
However in home hemodialysis, no need to control food consume, Dr. Shingh said. Due to various causes, patients who adopt home dialysis feel healthy than hemodialysis, doctors said.
As limited hospitals were there around the country, home dialysis could e the best alternative for Nepal, doctors said
Bir Hospital and in TU Teaching Hospital, which provide the dialysis services, see excessive flow of patients. In private institutions like Om Hospital and Kist Hospital people pay around 5,000 each time they use the service.

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DISTRIBUTION OF ’ROTTEN’ WFP GRAIN STOPPED
Kathmandu, 12 Jan.: Authorities in Bajura have stopped the distribution of ‘nutritious food’ to the students under Food for Education scheme of World Food Programme in five VDCs of the district, Prakash Singh reports from Bajura in the Himalayan Times.

According to Hiralal Regmi, an officer and school resource person at District Education Office, the distribution of the food was stopped in more than 40 schools of Dogadi, Gudukhati, Toli, Chhatara and Pandusain after it was found rotten and harmful.

He said the teachers, at a regular meeting of Toli Resource Centre, had complained about the food, stating that children had fallen ill after consuming the food.

“The food was found rotten when we inspected it at local Janajyoti Primary School. So we stopped the distribution,” he informed.

Schools in Dogadi and Pandusain VDCs added that they had stopped providing the food to the students. The teachers claimed that the problem had surfaced due to absence of proper monitoring in the distribution.

A few days ago, students at Tribeni Primary School and Bhagyeshwor Primary Schools in Gudukhati had fallen ill after consuming the food. A five-member monitoring team of WFP had visited the schools on Sunday for inspection.

Bishnu Bhandari, deputy-director for food distribution and a member of the monitoring team, said the team had concluded that the students had fallen ill after consuming raw porridge or due to improper storage at schools and over-consumption. He also claimed that the quality of food was intact and harmless.

CDO Shreeram Kunwar said the monitoring team had not contacted him. Chakra Bam, district head of Food for Education programme, said he had no information regarding the halting of distribution in the VDCs.

Nutritious food distribution head Chet Bahadur Bam said the food was distributed to 13,500 students of 150 schools in 17 VDCs of the district.
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