ZIRO 13 Jun: A district-level multisectoral activity pressure assembly of the National Programme on Climate Change and Human Health (NPCCHH) was held right here in Lower Subansiri district on Monday.

The occasion was organised additionally to mark the continuing World Environment Day (WED) celebration.

Presiding over the meet, Deputy Commissioner Bamin Nime urged the academic institutes within the district to impart consciousness about local weather change and its dangerous results “through essay writings, seminars, and drawing competitions.” He additionally urged the HoDs to disseminate consciousness on local weather change amongst their staffs.

Hapoli Divisional Forest Officer Nani Sha appealed to everybody to “cooperate in maintaining healthy environment for a better tomorrow,” whereas NPCCHH district nodal officer Dr Subu Habung spoke on local weather change and human well being.

Stating that the drastic change in local weather threatens human well being, he described the prevalence of vector- and water-borne ailments, hazard of harm throughout and following catastrophic occasions, elevated danger of respiratory illnesses, meals scarcity, and psychological sickness as “offshoots of climate change.”

Epidemiologist Phattani Munglang additionally spoke. (DIPRO)