நரம்பியல் டாக்டர் கொலை வழக்கில் நாளை தீர்ப்பு

நரம்பியல் டாக்டர் கொலை வழக்கில் நாளை தீர்ப்பு

Added : ஆக 02, 2021 23:53

சென்னை : டாக்டர் சுப்பையா கொலை வழக்கில், நாளை தீர்ப்பு கூறப்படுகிறது.கடந்த 2013 செப்., 14ல், சென்னை ஆர்.ஏ.,புரத்தில், நரம்பியல் டாக்டர் சுப்பையா, கூலிப்படையினரால் தாக்கப்பட்டு சிகிச்சை பலனின்றி இறந்தார். இந்த வழக்கில், 10 பேர் கைது செய்யப்பட்டனர்.

சென்னை முதலாவது கூடுதல் அமர்வு நீதிமன்றத்தில், 2015 முதல் இந்த வழக்கு விசாரணை நடந்து வருகிறது. அனைத்து தரப்பு வாதங்களும் முடிந்த நிலையில், ஆகஸ்ட் 2ல் தீர்ப்பு வழங்கப்படும் என, சென்னை முதலாவது கூடுதல் அமர்வு நீதிமன்ற நீதிபதி அல்லி அறிவித்திருந்தார்.இதன்படி தீர்ப்புக்காக, நேற்று அந்த வழக்கு பட்டியலிடப்பட்டது. அப்போது குற்றம் சாட்டப்பட்ட ஒன்பது பேரில், ஆசிரியர் பொன்னுசாமி, அவரது மனைவி மேரி புஷ்பம் ஆகியோர் ஆஜராகவில்லை.அவர்கள் தரப்பில் ஆஜரான வழக்கறிஞர், 'உடல்நிலை சரியில்லாத காரணத்தால், இருவரும் ஆஜராக முடியவில்லை' என தெரிவித்தார்.இதையடுத்து தீர்ப்பை நாளை தள்ளிவைத்து, நீதிபதி அல்லி உத்தரவிட்டார்.

மருத்துவ கல்லுாரிகள் கட்டுமானம் ஒரு மாதத்தில் முடிக்க உத்தரவு

மருத்துவ கல்லுாரிகள் கட்டுமானம் ஒரு மாதத்தில் முடிக்க உத்தரவு

Added : ஆக 02, 2021 23:53

சென்னை, : முதலாம் ஆண்டு மாணவர் சேர்க்கையை நடத்தும் வகையில், புதிய மருத்துவ கல்லுாரிகளின் கட்டுமான பணிகளை விரைந்து முடிக்க அரசு உத்தரவிட்டுள்ளது.

தமிழகத்தில் திருவள்ளூர், செங்கல்பட்டு, கள்ளக்குறிச்சி, திண்டுக்கல், ராமநாதபுரம், நீலகிரி, விருதுநகர், நாமக்கல், திருப்பூர், கிருஷ்ணகிரி, அரியலுார் ஆகிய, 11 மாவட்டங்களில், புதிதாக அரசு மருத்துவ கல்லுாரி மற்றும் மருத்துவமனைகள் அமைக்க, மத்திய அரசு அனுமதி வழங்கி உள்ளது. இதற்கான கட்டுமான பணிகளை மேற்கொள்ள, முந்தைய அ.தி.மு.க., ஆட்சியில், 1,200 கோடி ரூபாய் ஒதுக்கப்பட்டு பணிகள் துவங்கின. இந்த மருத்துவ கல்லுாரிகள் வாயிலாக, எம்.பி.பி.எஸ்., படிப்பில் புதிதாக, 1,650 இடங்கள் அனுமதிக்கப்படும் .

புதிய மருத்துவ கல்லுாரிகளில், நடப்பு கல்வியாண்டில் மாணவர் சேர்க்கையை நடத்த, உயர்நீதிமன்ற மதுரை கிளை உத்தரவு பிறப்பித்துள்ளது. தற்போது, 11 மருத்துவ கல்லுாரிகளில், 80 சதவீத கட்டுமான பணிகள் முடிந்துள்ளன. மின்சாரம், குடிநீர் உள்ளிட்ட பல்வேறு வசதிகள் ஏற்படுத்த வேண்டியுள்ளது.உயர் நீதிமன்ற உத்தரவை தொடர்ந்து, புதிய மருத்துவ கல்லுாரிகளில், முதலாம் ஆண்டு மாணவர் சேர்க்கைக்கு தேவையான பணிகளுக்கு மட்டும் முக்கியத்துவம் அளித்து, இம்மாத இறுதிக்குள் விரைந்து முடிக்க அரசு உத்தரவிட்டுள்ளது.

இதையடுத்து, வகுப்பறைகள், ஆய்வகங்கள், மாணவர் விடுதிகள் உள்ளிட்டவற்றை தயார் படுத்தும் பணிகளில், ஒப்பந்த நிறுவனங்கள் கவனம் செலுத்த துவங்கி உள்ளன.

1-month-old operated on to remove twin from his tummy

1-month-old operated on to remove twin from his tummy

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Mumbai:3.8.2021

City doctors have successfully operated on a baby boy who was born with his own ‘twin’ inside his abdomen — a rare condition called ‘fetus-in-fetu’. It is estimated to occur in one of 5 lakh live births.

Doctors suspected something unusual when they picked up, what they thought to be a cyst, in the baby’s abdomen during a routine ultrasound of the mother in the fifth month of pregnancy. Two months later, when the mother presented for a follow-up scan in the seventh month of pregnancy, it was clear that the mass was not a cyst. The scan found bones and viscera, suggestive of the body parts of the foetus that was inside the abdomen of the healthy foetus.

The couple in their thirties, who did not wish to be identified, said they were advised to carry on with the pregnancy by the doctors at the suburban maternity hospital they were consulting. “We were anxious, but the doctors told us that any intervention has to be done only after the baby is born,” the father told TOI.

He said that the pregnancy was continued to term, and the baby was born without any complications. The couple consulted multiple doctors who recommended removal of the ‘dead twin’.

They approached the Narayana Health’s SRCC Children’s Hospital after the baby was a month old. Doctors found the dead twin inside an amniotic sac located in the upper part of the newborn’s tummy, displacing vital structures.

“Incidence of fetus-in-fetu is extremely rare. Due to lack of adequate blood supply and nourishment one fetus doesn’t survive. A challenge in such cases is to remove the baby with the amniotic sac intact,” said Dr Sarita Bhagwat, senior paediatric surgeon who led the operation. “The dead foetus had underdeveloped vertebrae, femur and humerus (bone in upper arm) and two limb bones, which we could remove completely,” said the surgeon. The healthy baby was recently discharged from the hospital.

Delhi, 12 other states see a rise in weekly Covid cases

Delhi, 12 other states see a rise in weekly Covid cases

Amit.Bhattacharya@timesgroup.com

3.8.2021

It is not just Kerala and its neighbouring states where Covid-19 infections have been rising over the past few days. As many as 13 states recorded an increase in cases last week, apart from Tamil Nadu which saw no change, although absolute numbers remained low at most places.

The hill states of north India saw the maximum rise in fresh cases during the week ended Sunday (July 26-August 1) as compared with the previous seven days. Himachal Pradesh registered a surge of 64%, the highest in the country, with cases rising from 670 in the previous week to 1,100. Uttarakhand logged a 61% increase in infections, although numbers in the state were still quite low — 437 last week as compared with 272 in the preceding period. J&K logged a surge of 26%.

Delhi, where weekly cases had dropped to this year’s lowest count of 381 in the week before last, saw a 15% rise in infections.

The city recorded 440 fresh cases last week. Neighbouring Haryana too registered a minor rise of 2%.

While in absolute numbers these spikes were largely marginal, what’s significant is that all these states had been registering a fall in infections till the week before last.

In total numbers, Kerala’s weekly surge was by far the highest. The state logged nearly 1.4 lakh fresh cases, 20,000 more than the count in the previous week, translating to a 27% spurt in infections. Karnataka’s weekly total was 12,442, a 17% rise from 10,610 cases recorded in the previous week.

Meanwhile, the surge in the northeast (minus Assam) slowed to 2%, from 16% in the previous week.

Significantly, worst-hit Maharashtra recorded an 11% drop in infections, the steepest percentage fall in six weeks. The state recorded 45,272 new infections during the week, down from 50,732 in the previous seven days.

Meanwhile, India recorded 29,853 fresh cases on Monday (with Delhi’s data yet to come in till midnight). The tally was lower than the number recorded last Monday (30,619) although Kerala’s cases remained relatively high at 13,984. Cases drop sharply every Monday due to lower testing and staff shortages over the weekend. There were 419 deaths reported during the day.

Covaxin batches rejected due to stability issues caused disruption in July supply

Covaxin supplies were disrupted in July as initial batches from Bharat Biotech’s new fermentation plant at Bengaluru faced some stability issues and were rejected for supply. The batches were not utilised. Stability studies on vaccines and various other pharmaceutical products are conducted to determine the storage period of intermediates and determine or modify the maximum shelf-life. Experts say it is a regular phenomenon when batches of drugs and vaccines fail to qualify stability test.

According to the source, disruption at Bharat Biotech’s plant assumed significance because it resulted in a slowdown in vaccination. However, there is no quality issue with the vaccine as such. “It is a new facility with large-scale fermentation plant. The trial batches were disrupted during standardisation process and therefore, the supply of Covaxin was less than expected. It has been sorted out now and supplies have also started. It will be full-scale very soon,” the official said. TNN

Surge in cases shows likely 3rd wave in Kerala: Experts

Surge in cases shows likely 3rd wave in Kerala: Experts

More Than 50% Of The State’s Population Still Susceptible

Preetu.Nair@timesgroup.com

Kochi:3.8.2021

The number of new Coronavirus cases in Kerala is surging once again, with epidemiologists and public health experts stating that this may be the beginning of the third Covid wave in the state.

Though the state government has not officially called it the third wave, experts said that Kerala, after being in a plateau phase in the second wave, is now seeing a surge with 20,000 to 22,000 cases reported per day in the past six days, with TPR above 12%. From June 4 to the last week of July, the state saw an average of 12,000-14,000 cases a day.

“The surge indicates that it may be the beginning of the third wave and we need to be careful now. We have a large susceptible population and the government needs to come up with a long-term strategy to deal with new Covid waves,” said public health expert and epidemiologist Dr Raman Kutty. Kerala now has 51% of the total Covid cases in the country and its seven-day average daily growth rate is 0.60%, while that of the country is 0.13%.

“It is the general principle of any viral infection that there may be multiple waves when we have a susceptible population. Kerala will also see many Covid waves before the cases actually start subsiding,” said Dr A Sukumaran, former state epidemiologist, who has come out of retirement to work at Covid control room at Wayanad.

Dr Sukumaran said that during the Spanish Flu, the cases started to subside only after four waves. “But in Covid, we may see more waves as there are mutations,” he said.

In India, so far, there have been two very distinct periods of surge, separated by a prolonged lull. But it has been a different story in Kerala. During the first wave, Kerala was in a plateau phase for a long period, and then there was a surge in Covid cases in April, indicating the beginning of the second wave. In the second wave too, the state was in plateau phase for more than seven weeks and now there is a surge.

Unlike the rest of the country, now Kerala’s Covid concerns are manifold too. More than 50% of the population is still susceptible and so far, only about 17% are fully vaccinated. In July, as per CSIR Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology’s (CSIRIGIB) Covid-19 genome surveillance, the most dominant virus in Kerala is the dangerous Delta variant (B.1.617.2), with 95% samples tested from the state showing presence of the variant. Added to this, any gene mutations in the virus needs to be identified immediately at the state level.

Health minister Veena George has acknowledged that the state has not come out of the second wave yet but will have to get prepared to meet the third wave now.

No Covaxin for 1st dose at govt vaccine centres

No Covaxin for 1st dose at govt vaccine centres

Bengaluru:3.8.2021

The administration of Covaxin for the first dose has been suspended temporarily at all government Covid-19 vaccination centres due to an overall shortage of vaccines, reports Sunitha Rao R.

Given the supply trickle, the state health and family welfare department decided to ensure that those due for the second dose be catered to first. A circular was issued by the state government on July 31 and it has come into effect from August 1. Many states have suspended giving Covaxin for the first dose since the last week of July due to shortage. “Currently, only second dose of Covaxin will be provided at government centres,” said Dr Arundhathi Chandrashekar, mission director, National health mission, Karnataka.

State has 22k doses of Covaxin at B’luru buffer storage facility

Administration of Covaxin as the first dose will resume as and when the supply situation stabilises, say authorities. Data from health and family welfare department shows about 6.1 lakh people took the first dose of Covaxin over four weeks ago and have not yet come forward to take the second dose so far. “We need to administer the second dose to all who are due,” said Chandrashekar.

The state currently has about 22,000 doses of Covaxin at its buffer storage facility in Bengaluru and another 1.5 lakh doses have been already supplied to all districts, including BBMP. The health department has directed authorities that the emphasis should be on giving existing Covaxin recipients the second shot and fully vaccinating them. It also said awareness should be created among recipients to turn up for the second shot as and when it becomes due, without delay.

Covaxin continues to be available for the first dose in private hospitals. The cost of one dose of Covaxin in private vaccination centres is Rs 1,410.

Covishield 1st dose available

Covishield continues to be available for the first dose at all government vaccination centres. The districts, however, have been directed to reserve a part their allocation exclusively for the second dose, reads the circular, a copy of which is with TOI.

On May 7, the health department had suspended the administration of first dose of both Covishield and Covaxin at government centres due to shortage of vaccines and said the entire supply would to be used for the second dose. By May-end, as supplies were streamlined, the department started administering both first and second doses.

“Between Covishield and Covaxin, many prefer Covaxin because both doses will get over in four weeks,” said a district health officer. “We do tell them that both vaccines are effective. But the spacing of 84 days between the two doses for Covishield is pushing many to take Covaxin.”

24 institutes declared fake by UGC: Govt

24 institutes declared fake by UGC: Govt

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi:3.8.2021

Twenty-four “selfstyled” institutes have been declared as fake by the University Grants Commission (UGC) and two more have been found in violation of the norms. This was informed by Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan in response to a written question in Lok Sabha.

“Based on the complaints received from the students, parents, general public and also through electronic print media, UGC has declared 24 self-styled institutes as fake universities. Besides, two more institutes namely Bhartiya Shiksha Parishad, Lucknow, and Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM), Qutub Enclave, New Delhi are also found functioning in violation of the UGC Act, 1956. The matters of Bhartiya Shiksha Parishad, Lucknow and IIPM, New Delhi are sub-judice in the court,” he added.

Uttar Pradesh has the highest number (eight) of fake universities. Delhi has seven fake universities. Odisha and West Bengal have two such universities each. Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Puducherry and Maharashtra have one fake university each. Elaborating on the steps taken by the UGC against the fake or nonrecognised universities, Pradhan said, “The UGC issues public notices about the list of fake universities/institutes in national Hindi and English newspapers.”