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Now, report cards for doctors
‘Surrogate news’ worries experts
Fire in chemical factory
School bus overturns, 23 hurt
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666 fined for smoking in public places
Kidney case adjourned
MDU starts 5-yr postgraduate courses
1,500 units of blood collected
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Now, report cards for doctors
Chandigarh, May 30 In addition, the department is providing them an opportunity to voice their concerns in their respective fields through a forum while best performing doctors are getting an opportunity to showcase their expertise by way of presentations at this same forum. The result of the carrot and stick policy being followed by the department is for all to see. In Panchkula alone, the OPD has shot up from 22,000 to 32,000 while bed occupancy has risen to 130 per cent in April alone. In Gurgaon, the number of patients has gone up from 8,980 in the period from January to April last year to 16,011 within the same period this year. Similarly, major surgeries are up by 170 per cent and minor by 154 per cent. Principal secretary, health, Anuradha Gupta, said: “We have given all that the doctors asked for right from increasing their salaries to tackling the shortage of staff and equipment. We also introduced free of cost medicines for the patients. Now, accountability is the bottom line. We will judge them on the basis of patients they attend to in OPDs, surgeries and other benchmarks that we have set.” The effort of the department is to turn its district hospitals into patient-friendly multi-speciality centres. A large number of anaesthetists, eye-surgeons, gynaecologists, general surgeons, and orthopaedicians have been posted to these hospitals to broaden the range of treatment available. The department has also prescribed speciality-wise minimum treatment protocols which have to be made available so that the patients are not referred to private hospitals that charge exorbitantly. “We provide free of cost caesareans and eye operations which cost Rs 15,000 and above in the private sector. So, when we have the expertise and the equipment, there is no reason the patients should not come to us which is why a protocol has been set,” added Gupta. However, keeping in mind the convenience of doctors, the department has introduced periodic meetings at the headquarters, which will serve as a forum for healthy exchange of ideas and helps the specialists spell out the constraints that bind them. |
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‘Surrogate news’ worries experts
Sirsa, May 30 The district unit of the Haryana Patarkar Sangh, in coordination with the mass communication department of Chaudhary Devi Lal University, organised a seminar on the university campus, while the Haryana Union of Journalists organised a function on the occasion. Ashok Tanwar, newly elected MP from Sirsa, was the chief guest in both seminars. Ranjit Singh, Deputy Chairman of the Haryana State Planning Board, presided over the HPS seminar, while senior journalists Ram Saran Joshi, Umesh Joshi, KB Pandit, Sanjay Arora, media coordinator, and Virender Chauhan, head of the mass communication department of the CDLU, also expressed their views. KV Singh, OSD to the Chief Minister, Haryana, presided over the HUJ function, while senior journalist Pawan Kumar Bansal spoke on investigative journalism. Speakers expressed concern over the recent trends of surrogate news in a section of the vernacular media. |
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Fire in chemical factory
Jhajjar, May 30 Some labourers are feared trapped inside the factory as the fire was not completely put off till the filing of the report. Fire tenders were trying to control the fire. According to sources, the fire broke out around 2 pm. Employees of a neighbouring factory noticed the flames and informed the fire brigade office. Several local fire tenders rushed to the spot, but could not succeed to control the ablaze. The Bahadurgarh fire brigade office had to call more fire tenders not only from Rohtak, Sonepat and Jhajjar but also from Delhi. Later, Bahadurgarh SDM GL Yadav, naib tehsildar Raj Singh and SHO Sat Narain rushed to the spot and took stock of the situation. The reason behind the fire is yet to be ascertained. |
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School bus overturns, 23 hurt
Bhiwani, May 30 All injured were students of Bal Shiksha Niketan School, Sanwad, Bhiwani. The bus was coming from Sanjarwas village after picking up children. Two out of 23 students, who were seriously injured, were referred to Medical College, Rohtak, while the remaining were admitted to the Civil Hospital, Charkhi Dadri, and later sent to the Civil Hospital, Bhiwani. The incident took place when the bus driver identified as Raj Kumar was reportedly trying to overtake a tractor near Sanjarwas village. Residents of nearby village and passersby took the children to the Civil Hospital, Charkhi Dadri. Some of the injured students have been identified as Renu, Deepak, Pawan, Jyoti, Sushmita, Pallavi, Puja, Punam, Payal, Rahul, Sahil, Khushbu, Samar, Manoj, Mandeep, Mangal, Kirti, Ramanjeet and Sheetal. The police is investigating the matter. |
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Kidney case adjourned
Ambala, May 30 Dr Amit and his brother Jeevan are in the custody of the Rajasthan police in a case regarding the removal of a kidney registered against them in Jaipur. The other accused - Dr Serj, Dr KK Aggarwal, Dr Upender, Manoj, Gayasudeen, Jagdish and Linda - were present in the court. The defence counsel filed a bail application of Dr Jeevan, which will be heard on June 12. The CBI had filed a chargesheet against nine persons under various sections of the IPC and the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994. Besides, a few more cases have already been registered against Dr Amit in Mumbai, Jaipur and Delhi. The CBI has stated in the FIR that using persuasion, trickery and threats, Dr Amit and his accomplices allegedly forced poor patients and labourers to part with one of their kidneys for a pittance. The organs were then sold off to wealthy clients from India and abroad at huge profits. |
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MDU starts 5-yr postgraduate courses
Rohtak, May
30 These courses include five-year integrated MCom
(Hons), MSc (Economics Hons), MSc (Mathematics Hons) and six-year integrated Master of Visual Arts
(MVA) in painting. Besides, five-year integrated MBA programme in IMSAR has been restarted. Director, public relations of the university, Sunit Mukherjee said eligibility conditions and other details were available on the university website
www.mdurohtak.com. The admission to five-year integrated MBA course would be on the basis of an entrance test scheduled for July 5 in
Rohtak. |
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1,500 units of blood collected
Sirsa, May 30 Besides, a health camp was also organised on the occasion. Dera chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh inaugurated the camp. A spokesman for the dera said such camps were organised on the last Saturday of every month. |
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imposition of the ban in this regard on October 2 last and Rs 45,170 has been recovered from
them. In a message issued here today on the eve of World No Tobacco Day, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda called upon the people, especially the youth, to keep away from smoking and consumption of tobacco in any
form. Hooda also stressed the need for launching a mass campaign to generate awareness about this preventable cause of death.
He said a core group had been constituted for regular monitoring and conducting of surprise checks under the anti-tobacco laws. A reporting mechanism for violation of the anti-tobacco laws had also been put in place.
TNS
