|
|
|
|
|
Woman delivers baby on Metro train
Mosque area tense; two held for stoning cops
Pranab will be wise Prez: CM
DERC to introduce new tariff system
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Charity begins at hospital
|
|
Woman delivers baby on Metro train
New Delhi, July 22 They were immediately rushed to the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital by Metro authorities who arranged an ambulance and took care of all the other necessary formalities at the hospital. The DMRC's Managing Director, Mangu Singh has announced that the medical expenses of the family incurred at the hospital will be paid by the DMRC. Initially, the non-availability of nursery for the baby was a cause for concern at the hospital. However, the Metro staff immediately contacted the hospital authorities and sought their cooperation in admitting the baby. The hospital authorities also went out of their way to provide the required support. The baby and the mother are now in healthy conditions. Two station manager-level women employees of the DMRC have been deputed at the hospital since morning to take care of mother and child, as initially there was no female family member present to attend them. Other necessary help such as providing a vehicle for the movement of the family members has also been arranged. The DMRC has tie-ups with ambulance services across the city as part of which they provide services to the commuters in case of any emergency. The station staff also have phone numbers of nearby hospitals so that immediate medical attention can be provided. The staff members are also trained in providing first aid at the training school in Shastri Park. |
|
Mosque area tense; two held for stoning cops
New Delhi, July 22 With the order of the Delhi High Court on Friday, the site has been handed over to the Archaeological Survey of India and the construction stopped. People were prevented from offering prayers. Yesterday, they offered prayers on footpaths. Later, the police did not allow the gathering on footpaths either. At night, a group of people pelted the police party with stones, injuring as many as 10 security men. Later, the police arrested two persons who were allegedly involved in stone-throwing. The police has registered a case under sections of Arson and Destruction of Public Property Act Shopkeepers in Daryaganj were afraid of rioting and a majority of them did not open the shops today. The police officials said that situation was volatile and "anything could happen", though there had been "no violent incidents so far ". They said, "An inspector, a head constable and eight constables were injured when the mob threw stones at them." The police post and the gates of excavation site bore marks of stones, while a car lay smashed in a bylane nearby. The protestors had also attacked some buses on Saturday night. A shopkeeper said that anti-social elements are behind such acts. The locals want to live in peace, he added. Policemen carrying teargas shells and contingents from the Rapid Action Force along with several riot-control vehicles were in place on Sunday to reinforce the security. The mob disappeared, but small groups of people gathered around the site while an occasional youngster would shout slogans while passing through police pickets.
|
|
Pranab will be wise Prez: CM
New Delhi, July 22 "I think he will be a wise President, not being a political president or an administrative president because he has so many years of experience in both governance and working in the party, I think he will be one of the wisest Presidents we have had," Dikshit said. Dikshit said that she found it amazing that some parties in the opposition supported
Mukherjee.
|
|
|
DERC to introduce new tariff system
New Delhi, July 22 This proposal was first introduced in 2006-07 and a survey was conducted jointly by Delhi Transco Limited and TERI to find out the feasibility of introducing the system. But it could not be finalised as the then DERC had to settle a number of issues of
the discoms. Experts at that time has advised that meters being used by the consumers could not provide reading according to the new system. Now under the chairmanship of PD Sudhakar, the DERC again decided to implement this system. Sources in the power department said that the proposed system aimed at encouraging consumers to limit their power consumption in peak hours. It would be introduced on a pilot basis. If it is successful, it would be introduced in all zones of the capital. The system, ToD metering, is also expected to discourage commercial users from consuming more power during peak hours and resulting in minimising loadshedding in residential areas when the demand goes up substantially, the sources said. During summers, the discoms have to purchase power on higher rates from other states. If the ToD is introduced, there will be no need to
purchase power from outside. Delhi will be the first state to have this system. The experts said that power cuts would
also be reduced as under this system as Delhi would have power enough to fulfil the
needs of the consumers in the Capital.
|
|
|
Charity begins at hospital
Putting together, if one-third or even one-fourth of such bereaved families agree to donate, the big gap between the requirement of transplants and the availability can be met and the hospitals, especially in a place like Delhi, can contribute a lot. But for the reasons not hard to fathom, including the irrational cultural beliefs, the cadaver donors’ programme has never picked up in the country. The gap is alarming even as the country witnesses the highest number of road accidents in the world. Barring a few transplant centres down in the south Chennai, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad apart from Delhi’s Army (Research and Referral) Hospital, elsewhere, the deceased donor transplants have virtually been negligible. A rundown through the data of such centres attest to the fact that reliance on living donors has gone up significantly, with 99 per cent of transplanted organs, particularly kidney and liver, coming from such donors. At AIIMS since 1972, a total 1,850 kidney transplants have been done, with only 90 from the deceased and the rest from the living donors. At the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS), located in Vasant Kunj, of the 52 liver transplants, just one is from a deceased donor till date. “Transplants are not happening through cadaveric donation, leaving the families to resort to living organ donation. We get patients from AIIMS and GB Pant apart from other hospitals across the country. Every day I get five-six calls on the package offered by us for a transplant. In 2011, we had nearly 383 people registered on the waiting list and 10 per cent of them managed to get donations, all from living donors. But the deceased organ donation list virtually doesn’t exist,” said Vibhuti, trained transplant coordinator at ILBS “Strangely, we don’t have awareness in the North regarding organ donation and then we don’t have an active government organisation or system to help mobilise organ donation,” said a person involved actively in the organ donation programme. In this context, the new Transplantation of Human Organs (Amendment) Act will come handy as with it will be mandatory for the hospitals to declare brain-deaths. The whole idea is to make hospitals proactive and make them participate in the movement, added the coordinator. Each brain-death patient can give eight organs: kidneys, liver, heart, pancreas, bowel and eyes. Thus, eight people can benefit from the donation. “India has the dubious record of the highest road accidents and the lowest number of deceased donors. In religious scriptures, such as the Bhagwad Gita, we find sermons which say that the soul goes to heaven and the shell, the body is left behind. So, there is no harm in donating the organs. Let many more live,” said kidney transplant surgeon S N Mehta, former HoD of AIIMS’ general surgery department. Even at other high-volume centres in the Capital and NCR, such as Apollo Hospital, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Medanta Medicity, the trend has been the same with just a handful of renal and liver transplants being linked to cadaver donors.
|
|
| HOME PAGE | |
Punjab | Haryana | Jammu & Kashmir |
Himachal Pradesh | Regional Briefs |
Nation | Opinions | | Business | Sports | World | Letters | Chandigarh | Ludhiana | Classified Delhi | | Calendar | Weather | Archive | Subscribe | Suggestion | E-mail | |
New Delhi, July 22
New Delhi, July 22