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World Health Day: Tripura CM stresses to fight drug abuse, HIV/AIDS, child marriage
Agartala, April 7: Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Monday attended a rally in Agartala to mark World Health Day 2025, and emphasised the need to tackle the rising cases of drug abuse, particularly among injectable drug users, which has led to an increase in HIV/AIDS patients in the state.
5,520 drug users received treatment, 612 recovered: Tripura CM Manik Saha
Agartala, April 2: Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Tuesday informed the Assembly that as of January 2025, a total of 5,520 injection drug users have received treatment from Opioid Substitution Therapy (OST) centers. Of these, 612 have completed treatment and returned to the mainstream of healthy, normal lives.