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12-yr-old dies of rabies
Labourer’s death: Kin alleges negligence on part of Civil Hospital
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Disaster management control room being set up at tehsil complex
A newly set up disaster management control room in the tehsil complex sans phones and computer system in Jalandhar. Photo: Sarabjit Singh
Second phase of Aadhar card making process starts
College takes fee from SC student, despite varsity instructions
Protest held against price hike
Members of the CPI (ML) take out a protest march from Desh Bhagat Yaadgar Hall to the DC office in Jalandhar on Thursday. Tribune photo: Malkiat Singh
Robbers strike at industrial unit
City lad clears CA eligibility test
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12-yr-old dies of rabies
Jalandhar, August 9 “Prince had been complaining of pain in the hands and head for the past some days. I would rub oil or turmeric and tell him to take rest, thinking it is just fatigue or maybe he slept in the wrong posture last night,” said Seema. On August 7, when I asked him to take a bath and poured water on his body, a horrid expression came on his face and he just dashed away from water. He looked crazed with fear and we just couldn’t figure out what is wrong,” said Seema. “We took him to a local peer (saint), who is a local doctor, and he is the one who told us it was a case of rabies. It was then that we remembered Prince had been bitten by a dog about two months earlier. We hadn’t even heard about this disease earlier,” she added. Prince had been bitten by their own domestic dog. The animal was later taken away and abandoned at a deserted spot by the family. On the night his ailment was detected, Prince was taken to the Civil Hospital, Jalandhar. “Doctors tried to inject him at the hospital, but he ran away. They told us his disease was incurable and he was referred to Medical College, Amritsar. There, too, we were told that at the most he could be locked up in a room, because there was not treatment at this stage. But I preferred that my son died in freedom. We were taking him to a shrine that someone at the Amritsar hospital told us about. But he died on the way,” said Prince’s sobbing father Kulwinder. A daily wage labourer, Kulwinder, has another son Akshdeep (14) and a daughter Henna Rani (16). While Kulwinder does not earn more than Rs 4,000 to Rs 5,000 per month, the family currently faces a crisis regarding arranging money for rabies vaccinations, which has to be administered to the members of the family. While the Community Health Centre (CHC) at Kala Bakra has no vaccinations, the family today had to arrange for the vaccinations privately. Cost blues
Kulwinder, who had gone to the CHC at Kala Bakra this morning, was told that they had no vaccinations to offer. Incidentally, he was rescued from his predicament as some NGOs got to know of his plight and chipped in with help. Dr Nasid and Balwinder from the Guru Nanak Dev Charitable Organisation told The Tribune that the hospital authorities at the CHC had earlier refused them vaccinations, but they brought the case to the notice of certain NGOs in Jalandhar, who then pressurised the CHC authorities to treat the family for free. Both NGOs’ members and the family confirmed that the CHC MS gave the family some money to buy the vaccinations for the five members of the family that had to be bought today. But they do not have any money to bear the future cost of the vaccinations right now. The MS, CHC, Kala Bakra, Dr Kinder Pal, said, “Our hospital does not have any vaccinations. Some vaccinations are supplied for about two to three months a year, but for the rest of the year, we do not have any injections. The family will have to bear the cost of treatment themselves. If the hospital had vaccinations, it would have cost them only Rs 100 per shot.” Notably, a person needs to get five shots for the full course of the rabies treatment. While this family has five members, they will need 20 more shots (barring the five already administered today) for the full treatment. While Rs 2,000 provided by the MS were spent today, with 20 shots still to go, the family still needs Rs 7,000 to Rs 8,000 to complete the treatment. |
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Labourer’s death: Kin alleges negligence on part of Civil Hospital
Jalandhar, August 9 Labourer Ghanshyam (30), who was a cousin of deceased labourer Kallu (28), and his employer contractor Roshan Lal said today that Kallu died due to negligent treatment at the Civil Hospital. “A blood clot in his brain and fractures in his head went undetected and untreated for eight days because the hospital authorities did not even bother to get a CT scan or an X-ray of his head conducted,” they alleged. Ghanshyam and Kallu - who were both working as labourers laying tiles at people’s homes for a living - got seriously injured due to a water dispute with a co-tenant of their house on the night of July 30. Following an argument over the use of the water motor, the co-tenant, Shabbu, a tempo driver, and his son allegedly beat up the duo with a baseball bat. They were taken to the Civil Hospital on the night of July 30 and remained there from July 31 to August 7. Even though Kallu had serious head injuries and received stitches on his head, neither a brain scan nor an X-ray of the head was recommended for him during his eight-day stay at the Civil Hospital, due to which the seriousness of his head injury remained undetected. “On top of this, the Civil Hospital staff discharged him on August 7, saying his treatment was over and he could now rest at home,” said Ghanshyam. But dissatisfied with the treatment he had been receiving so far, Kallu’s kin shifted him to the PIMS on the afternoon of August 7, from where he was referred to SGL Hospital to get a CT scan conducted (because PIMS’ scanning machine was out of order). Ghanshyam and Roshan Lal revealed that Dr HS Brar of SGL hospital, who examined him, said he had a blood clot and fractures in the skull and his scan should have been conducted way earlier. His treatment then began at SGL Hospital, but by then it was too late and Kallu died at hospital on Wednesday morning. Talking to The Tribune, Ghanshyam said the Civil Hospital authorities gave them highly lax treatment. “The nurses never asked about our state and we were totally ignored. Shockingly, they recommended a chest scan for Kallu, even though he had received injuries on his head and had stitches on his head. Constant calls in times of need went unheeded. After receiving treatment for four days at the Trauma Ward of the Civil Hospital, Kallu was later shifted to the Male Ward on the third floor, from where he was discharged. At SGL Hospital, doctors even scolded us for bringing in Kallu too late, saying he could have been saved if we had brought him on time,” said Ghanshyam, supporting his “stitched” cheek with one hand. Ghanshyam said the PIMS authorities, too, were reluctant about admitting Kallu. Showing his own stitches, from which blood oozed out, Ghanshyam said, my wounds were stitched, but they were bleeding again. Ghanshyam also received injuries on his jawbone. He said he, too, was discharged even though his wounds hadn’t healed yet. Kallu and Ghanshyam are from Rajashthan. They came to Jalandhar about a month and a half ago. While Ghanshyam had been working in Punjab for the past some time (in other cities), Kallu had come to the state for the first time. Assailants arrested after 10 days
A three-member committee, comprising Dr Tarsem Singh (DMC), Dr MB Bali and Dr Rajneesh, has been constituted to look into the case. The committee will look into the lapses and submit a report as soon as the investigation is
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Disaster management control room being set up at tehsil complex
Jalandhar, August 9 The recruits - Daksh and Parwinder Singh - have even been asked to maintain an updated directory of the phone numbers of the officials of various departments, including MC, fire, police and administration. They have even been asked to maintain an inventory of the equipment required at the sites during any such episode. The DMRPs, who had till a few days back had been adjusted in a room in the office of the District Revenue Officer, have been allotted a control room at the entrance of the complex on the ground floor. They are yet to get their phones and computer systems shifted. Fire Department gets new equipment
The Fire Department has received new equipment as a part of the disaster management plan. Two bikes, fitted with foam fire extinguishers that can be shoulder-mounted and taken to congested lanes of the interior parts of the city, have been received and are currently parked in a room in the District Administrative Complex (DAC). An inflatable lighting tower with a generator set at its base, which can be even extended up to a height of 15 m, has also been received. Such an apparatus was in much demand at the time of day-and-night operation carried out during the Shital Fibres factory collapse episode in April this year. Thirty sets of the entire equipment purchased for the municipal corporations and committees of the state have come from the Aska company. A similar set has also come for Kartarpur fire station. The equipment is yet to be shifted to the fire office. |
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Second phase of Aadhar card making process starts
Jalandhar, August 9 The department has set up four centres as of now - one at Ladhewali in front of Guru Nanak Dev University Regional Campus, another at Nangal Shama and two more in Jalandhar Cantonment. Nearly 40 more centres are being planned for the second round. Since more than 400 villages were covered in the first round, most of the new centres would be set up in urban areas. Like the first phase, centres would be set up at polling stations, but other than those already covered. As per the plan, there would be three to four machines at one centre so that as many people could be attended to at one point of time. As a change from the previous module, no undertaking or attestation would be sought from the area councillors as was being done earlier. Instead, the area Inspector of the Food and Civil Supplies Department, who would sit through the day, would have to verify the details. The change has been perhaps made as the officials felt that the Inspector was a more accountable person rather than any political figure. The insiders said there had been complaints from the residents that they found the councillors unapproachable at times. The staff had also complained that the councillors at times tried to force them to use their undertaking given on letterheads as a proof of applicant’s residence, which they could not accept. Tarwinder Singh Chopra, District Food and Civil Supplies Controller, said the department was targeting to cover nearly 23 lakh population of the city. “We have almost crossed the 40 per cent mark,” he pointed out. No scope for rectification
Since it is the initial stage of Aadhar cards, till date there is no provision of rectification of the UID cards already made. Officials of the Department of Civil Supplies tell that the applicants must be very particular about the spellings of their names and other details. The rectifications may be done at the later stage, they said. Toll-free number: 1800-180-1947 Proof for residence
Any one of 29 IDs, including passport, ration card, voter ID card, driving licence, MNREGA card, arms licence, credit card statement, bank statement/passbook, electricity bill, water supply bill and telephone landline bill (bills of date within last three months), freedom fighter card, pensioner card, insurance policy, vehicle registration certificate, registered sale lease/rent agreement, post office account statement, residence certificate issued by sarpanch or MP or “A” grade gazetted officer, CGHS or ECHS card and domicile certificate by the state government. Identity proof
Any of 17 IDs, including passport, ration card, voter ID card, driving licence, PAN card, ID proof issued from any recognised educational institute, MNREGA card, arms licence, credit card with photo, bank ATM with photo, freedom fighter card, farmer’s passbook, CGHS/ECHS card and residence card issued by post office with photo. 12-digit unique number
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College takes fee from SC student, despite varsity instructions
Jalandhar, August 9 Poonam, an SC student, who hails from a financially weak family, arranged Rs 3,000 to take admission in B.Sc (non-medical) at the local DAV College. While she could hardly arrange Rs 3,000 for pursuing her graduation, the college authorities asked her to deposit rest of the Rs 16,000 fee in installments. “Despite mentioning SC category, neither the college authorities mentioned about the scholarship scheme nor were we aware of it. The authorities asked us to deposit some of the amount to get admission. We paid Rs 3,000 as that was the only money we were carrying. We were asked to deposit the rest of the fee in September and March,” she said. Surprisingly, the GNDU has setup new modules for the implementation of the scholarship scheme but the colleges have been deliberately ignoring the directives. Even the registrar of the varsity, Dr Inderjit Singh, had made it clear that the students would not be asked to pay any fee or funds at the time of admission rather the college would get a bank account opened on the name of the student after the admission. The claim for the admission fee of a student was to be sent to the Centre Government. Her elder sister, who works as a tailor at home said, “We had a harrowing planning about how to arrange money for her admission. My father is a labourer and mother is a housemaid. Arranging Rs 19,000 had become a big hurdle. I did not want her to lose this chance of studying, as she is intelligent and we have many hopes from her.” Poonam said that she had approached many city colleges but none of them mentioned about the scholarship scheme. “Instead, all the college authorities told us about the hefty fees schedule. Finally, we approached DAV college as the fees of B.Sc (non-medical) here was far less than the other colleges of the city,” she added. It is pertinent to mention here that earlier, the SC students had no choice but to pay the college fee first and university funds right at the time of the admission. The students’ fee was refunded later when the Centre Government would dispatch the scholarship grants. This move was restricting the financially weak SC students to pursue higher studies. Official speak The student must have not mentioned her SC category in the admission form failing which she could not avail the benefit of the scholarship scheme. However, she should immediately approach us and get the full fee reimbursement according to the scholarship scheme and the rules laid by the GND University.~ — Dr B.B. Sharma, Principal, DAV College Such an ignorant move on the part of any college can lead to cancellation of its recognition, as the case would be forwarded to the Central and state government or their concerned council. There is a dire need for the educational institutions to implement the scholarship scheme and popularise it as well. Shortly, I would hold meetings with the college managements and principals to ensure that no such violation takes
place. — Rajesh Bagga, Chairman, SC Commission |
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Protest held against price hike
Jalandhar, August 9 The protesters gathered at the local Desh Bhagat Yaadgar Hall from where they marched towards the Deputy Commissioner’s office amidst tight security cover. The protest was organised by the CPI (ML) New Democracy, Pendu Mazdoor Union and Kirti Kisan Union. Agitated over hike in prices of the essential commodities, protesters raised slogans, “Roko Roko Eh Mehngai, Nahi Taan Tuhadi Shamat Aayi,” Manmohan Ate Badal Samraaj De Bhai E, Tahion Taan Mehngai E”. Addressing the gathering, the CPI (ML) leaders alleged that the economic policies of the country were being directed by capitalist forces due to which, prices of food and other essential commodities were rising everyday. “Petrol, diesel are being de-controlled which, were fuelling the price hike. The government is withdrawing nominal facilities available to the working class. Common man is suffering as no recruitment is taking place as far as government vacancies were concerned,” said CPI (ML) leader Hans Raj Pabwan and Pendu Mazdoor Union leader, Kashmir Singh Ghughshore. Protesters rued that food items, health and education was zooming out of reach of common people, particularly, the poor. “Almost every common man in general and a poor man in particular was reeling under debt. Labour laws were being amended to favour employers. Corruption has surpassed all the limits,” alleged Sita Rani, a participant. The protesters demanded that recent hike in power tariff, newly imposed taxes should be revoked and the PDS system should be strengthened. |
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Robbers strike at industrial unit
Jalandhar, August 9 Sources said the masked dacoits entered the premises of Ambika Enterprises after scaling the boundary wall. They forced the workers on gun-point to assemble in a room. After bolting the room from outside the suspects took away finished goods and raw material. The case came to light when a worker made a phone call to Surinder Chopra, brother of the industry owner, briefing him about the incident. In the meantime, a resident of Kot Pakshiyan village, Surinder Chopra, subsequently had informed the police control room. A team of the PCR vehicle and the area SHO reached the spot and set the hostages free. In a complaint to the police, Surinder alleged that the dacoits collected the goods in big bags and fled away. They even directed the workers to handover their jewellery and other valuables at the gun-point and escaped from the spot. The police also pressed a dog squad and a team of forensic experts into service to trace clue of the dacoits at the crime scene. Meanwhile, a case under Sections 342, 457 and 380 of the IPC has been registered at the police station Division No 3 against the unidentified persons. No arrests were made so far.
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City lad clears CA eligibility test
Jalandhar, August 9 Son of a city-based industrialist, Inderdeep has scored 333 marks out of 400 in the test. Only 30 per cent of the candidates across the country have been able to clear this exam. The test was held in May. A resident of Mohalla Purani Kachehri on the Tanda Road, Inderdeep said that he was now preparing for another group two test to be held in November. “There is still a long way ahead. When I clear my second exam, I will be going for a two and a half years training followed by a final exam,” he said. |
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As a part of the disaster management preparedness, the district administration is in the process of setting up a control room in the tehsil complex.
There have been two fresh inductions of MCA-qualified Disaster Management Resource Professionals
(DMRP), who have been entrusted with the job to receive calls on a recently installed toll-free number 1077 and alert the departments concerned in the event of any calamity.
Jalandhar, August 9
