"Youth Acuity about Nepal as Epidemic Free Nation"
International
youth day was celebrated nationwide with the main theme “Building a Better
World: Partnering with Youth” .Where as Paschim Paaila celebrated
this great day by organizing debate program at City Hall, Exhibition road, in
coordination with Youth NGO Federation Nepal. Debate was conducted among youths
from different colleges, with the main objective of getting youth perception
regarding Nepal as Epidemic Free nation. The topic of debate program was "EPIDEMIC
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Merina Shakya, network coordinator of Paschim Paaila. She introduced the campaign
“EPIDEMIC FREE NEPAL !!!” which was launched on 2010 by highlighting
about the youth movement of Paschim Paaila.
After the introduction the floor was opened to the
participants to express their thoughts. Program was conducted with more than forty
participants from different colleges and institutions like National Institute
of Health Science (NIHS), National Academy of Medical Science (NAMS), K &K
College, Tri Chandra College, Valley College of Technical Science, National
Open College (NOC), CIST College and the youth organization Nepalese Youth for
Climate Action (NYCA). Among the participant half of them told that it is
possible to make Nepal free of epidemic by expressing their views suggesting
few points such as awareness program should be launched, making appropriate
policy, public private and youth partnership. They also showed concern about
the legal binding process which will make people aware and keep their
surroundings clean. Similarly, half of them expressed their disagree about the topics
and suggested to make it epidemic controlled Nepal. According to the
participants view who was speaking against the campaign justified their views
by providing few points as current literacy condition and unmeet demand of the
locals. They also blamed the open international boundaries with different
countries is as one of the major findings to spread diseases in our country. 
Finally, the
debate program was concluded by the vote of thanks and requesting the
participants to express their solidarity through the commitment sheet by Mr.
Phurba Sange Moktan.
