`Delta crew broke wine bottle over rowdy flyer's head'

Seattle: AP





A flight attendant broke a wine bottle over the head of a man who lunged for an exit door and fought with other flyers during a Delta Air Lines flight from Seattle to Beijing, but it didn't faze him, an FBI agent wrote in charging papers filed Friday.

 

Joseph Daniel Hudek IV , 23, of Tampa, Florida, appeared in the US District Court, wearing a beige jail uniform and sporting a scrape or bruise below his right eye.

Hudek was arrested Thursday night after causing the disturbance that forced the plane to return to the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Hudek did not speak during the hearing. His attorney , Robert Flennaugh II, declined to comment.

Hudek was charged with interfering with a flight crew, which carries a possible sentence of up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. He is expected to remain in custody at least until a detention hearing on July 13.

A probable cause statement written by FBI special agent Caryn Highley said Hudek was sitting in the first row of the Boeing 767's first-class section. He asked a flight attendant for a beer before takeoff. He was served one, but exhibited no sign of being intoxicated and ordered no more alcoholic drinks, the flight attendant told authorities.

About an hour into the flight, while the plane was over the Pacific Ocean northwest of Vancouver Island, Hudek went into the forward restroom, came out quickly , asked the attendant a question, and went back in.

When he came out again two minutes later, he suddenly lunged for the exit door, grabbed the handle and tried to open it, Highley wrote. Two flight attendants grabbed him, but he pushed them away, and they signaled for help from several passengers and notified the cockpit by phone, the complaint said.
Hudek punched one flight attendant twice in the face and struck at least one passenger on the head with a desert red wine bottle. As the struggle continued, a flight attendant grabbed two wine bottles and hit Hudek over the head with each -breaking at least one of them.

According to one flight attendant: “Hudek did not seem impacted by the breaking of a full litre red wine bottle over his head, and instead shouted, `Do you know who I am?' or something to that extent,“ the complaint said.

One passenger got him in a head-lock, but he broke out of it, until finally several passengers held him long enough to place zip-tie restraints on him. Even then he remained combative, Highley said, and it took multiple passengers to keep him restrained until the plane landed and Port of Seattle police arrested him.

All Delhiites can get free surgeries at pvt hospitals

New Delhi: TIMES NEWS NETWORK





STATES GRAPPLE WITH SHORTAGE OF DOCS, HIGH MED BILLS 

 

Residents of Delhi who are unable to have surgeries at any city government hospital can now get free surgery in 48 private hospitals without having to worry about huge bills. The bills, for which no upper limit has been set, will be paid by the Delhi government. “We lay emphasis on health and education, there will be no dearth of funds for this scheme,“ CM Arvind Kejriwal said while launching the scheme at Talkatora Stadium on Saturday .

 

A patient undergoing treatment at any of the 24 Delhi government hospitals where she is scheduled for surgery which cannot be performed at the government hospital within 30 days because of an overload or if the hospital does not have infrastructure can be referred to a private hospital. The free surgery can be conducted within a fortnight.

The patient needs to submit residence proof with the OPD slip (containing referral to private hospital) with an authorisation form (available at the hospital) to the nodal officer of the Delhi Arogya Kosh from where she will get the authorisation letter allowing treatment at private hospital. The hospital administration will assist the patients' family in the process.

HC quashes rape case filed by girl against dad, brother

Chennai: TIMES NEWS NETWORK





Says `Victim' Lied To Cops, Mentally Ill

A sexual abuse case initiated by a Class IX girl against her father and brother has been quashed by the Madras high court which found that she had lied to police, copied a complaint available with a child helpline and also suffered from schizophrenic disorders.

It turned out that the girl lodged the complaint because her father was strict and often reprimanded her for poor academic performance. She wanted to leave her home and stay in a hostel.
The Reddiarpalayam police in Puducherry , however, had registered a case under Protec tion of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012, and arrested the father in April 2016.

Justice R Mahadevan, quashing the FIR, said: “ A plain reading of the FIR would show that the entire proceeding is maliciously instituted with ulterior motive to wreak vengeance against them. Furthermore, the findings rendered by the Schizophrenia Research Foundation, Chennai for psychological evaluation (psychotic treatment) would show that the girl did not have capacity to think about the outcome of her behaviour and that she copied the complaint verbatim from a Child Helpline volunteer Sharmi. It is also seen that she wanted to stay in a hostel and wrote a complaint against her father and brother, and she did not think about the consequence of her action.

 In view of the above stated circumstances the impugned FIR pending on the file of the Reddiyarpalayam police is quashed.“ In her complaint, the girl al leged that her father had sexually abused her before she attained puberty and that her brother had taken photographs while she was taking a bath. Police booked the case for offences punishable Section 6 of POCSO Act, and arrested her father. It was the high court which found something amiss, as the complaint was too neat, without any mistake and any overwriting. It asked the police to produce the girl before it on June 14, 2016, when it found that she was not even able to read the complaint properly .

Then the court referred the girl for conducting psychiatric tests and found out that she actually wanted to stay in a hostel away from home and that she copied the complaint written by a helpline volunteer, whom the girl met at an awareness programme in her school. The court found she was intellectually below average and did not have the capacity to think about the consequences of her acts and behaviour.

The father's counsel told the court that she had to change three schools due to poor academic performance and that she found her present school too strict. The girl was unable to differentiate between right and wrong acts, he said.Quashing the FIR, the judge said there was no pornographic picture available so as to implicate the father and brother.

Over 51K applications for medical courses this year

Pushpa Narayan & Aishwarya Valliappan

Chennai: TNN





At least 12 MBBSaspirants will compete for a seat in government medical colleges in Tamil Nadu, and double that number will vie for government quota seats in self-financing colleges.

 

On Saturday , the last date for submission of filled-in applications, the state selection committee in-charge of MBBSBDS admissions, said it had received 50,558 applications, of which 31,323 were admissions to 2,594 seats in 23 state-run medical colleges.

The remaining 19,235 applications were for admissions in the 783 government quota seats in 10 self-financing colleges affiliated to the state university .“This is more than twice the applications we received last year. But this year, in a first, we are doing counselling for management quota seats as well,“ said selection committee secretary Dr G Selvarajan. The state had sold over 43,206 application forms from its medical college and others were downloaded.

The committee is expected to release the rank list on July 14 and begin counselling on July 17. Over 80,000 students wrote NEET 2017 conducted by the CBSE in May . The CBSE is yet to share data such as pass percentage, category wise and language-wise qualifiers with the state government. “We have deputed additional staff to verify every application manually,“ he said. The last day saw more than 1,000 students rushing in to drop their filled in applications at the Directorate of Medical Education, Kilpauk. Students faced difficulties in getting their applications attested by a gazetted officer and sourcing postcards as stipulated in the prospectus. A huge crowd was seen at the venue from 10am to 2pm, but a 30-minute extension of time worked to the advantage of many students. The state government will reserve 85% of government quota seats for state board students in MBBS, BDS admissions. Of the 4,350 seats in 22 government medical colleges, state-managed Raja Muthiah Medical College of Annamalai University and 10 self-financing institutions, 973 will be surrendered to the allIndia quota. Of the remaining 3,377 seats, 2,867, including 2,094 in government colleges, will be reserved for state board students. In dental admissions, state board students will have 1,011seats.





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Private doctors can now do angioplasty in TN govt hosps

Pushpa Narayan

Chennai:





Private sector cardiologists can soon do life-saving stenting and angioplasty in Tamil Nadu government hospitals.

 

As of now, cath labs in government hospitals are open only between 8am and 3pm, but by inviting private doctors to its facilities when there is no government doctor for emergencies, the state will be able to offer round-the-clock care.

As a part of its cardiac care policy, aimed at reducing the incidence of deaths due to heart diseases, the state plans to add at least 11cath labs, where non-surgical cardiac procedures such as angiogram and angioplasty are done. Presently, five cath labs are operational in Stanley Medical College Hospital and Government mulch-speciality Hospitals in Chennai, Rajaji Government General Hospital in Madurai and Salem Government General Hospital.

The state now plans to pay government doctors to do these procedures beyond duty hours and empanel private doctors to work in its facilities. Labs like the ones in Chen nai can do at least 10 angioplasties and another six angiograms a day if we put them to optimum use. But we don't have adequate doctors working round the clock, the utilisation comes down. In smaller cities, there may not be adequate doctors sometimes even through the day.Our intension is to scale this up,“ said Tamil Nadu Medical Service Corporation managing director P Umanath.

The state plans to pay government doctors to do these procedures beyond duty hours and empanel private doctors to work in its facilities. They will be paid either through health insurance or by the health department. “The amount may not equal what private hospitals offer, but with volume, we will be able to match the pay at least in long term.“

It is hoped that the number of patients being taken to private hospitals can be reduced through state health insurance even for elective surgeries. The state has already been using gynaecologists and anaesthetists for emergency C-sections in rural PHCs when government doctors are not available.
State health insurance data shows only 7% of the total procedures were for treatment of heart diseases but accounted for a quarter of the money spent. Additional Public Health director Dr T S Selvavinayagam said `270 crore was spent for stenting and angioplasty procedures, 95% in private hospitals.

After a pilot study , the state decided on a hub and spoke model of care for heart diseases.
Spokes, or small hospitals, use standardised ECG to diagnose ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), where a clot in a heart vessel slowsstops blood flow. Test results are shared with doctors at hubs, or hospitals with cath lab, for confirmation. A patient testing positive is given blood thinners and lipid-lowering medication followed by another drug to dissolve the clot. In 324 hours, the patient is sent to a speciality hospital and wheeled in for angioplasty stenting, said state health secretary J Radhakrishnan.

பேரறிவாளனுக்கு 'பரோல்' பரிசீலிப்பதாக முதல்வர் தகவல்

பதிவு செய்த நாள் 09 ஜூலை
2017
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சென்னை, ''ராஜிவ் கொலை வழக்கில் கைதாகி, சிறையில் உள்ள பேரறிவாளனுக்கு, 'பரோல்' வழங்குவதில், அனைவருடைய உணர்வுகளையும், அரசு கவனத்தில் கொண்டு நடவடிக்கை எடுக்கும்,'' என, முதல்வர் பழனிசாமி தெரிவித்தார்.

பேரறிவாளனுக்கு பரோல் வழங்க வலியுறுத்தி, எதிர்க்கட்சி தலைவர் ஸ்டாலின் உட்பட பலர், சட்டசபையில் கோரிக்கை விடுத்தனர். அதற்கு, முதல்வர் பழனிசாமி அளித்த பதில்:

எம்.எல்.ஏ.,க்கள் கருணாஸ், தனியரசு, தமீமுன் அன்சாரி, துணை சபாநாயகர், எதிர்க்கட்சி தலைவர், துணைத் தலைவர் உள்ளிட்டவர்கள், தங்கள் உணர்வுகளை பிரதிபலிக்கிற விதத்தில், 'பேரறிவாளனை பரோலில் விட வேண்டும்' என, கோரிக்கை விடுத்தனர்.
ஏற்கனவே, 15 நாட்களுக்கு முன், தமீமுன் அன்சாரி, கருணாஸ், தனியரசு ஆகியோர், என் அறைக்கு வந்து, இந்த கோரிக்கையை வலியுறுத்தி மனு கொடுத்தனர்.

இது குறித்து, சட்ட அமைச்சர், சி.வி.சண்முகத்துடன் கலந்து பேசினேன்.
பின், அந்த மனு, தலைமை வழக்கறிஞருக்கு அனுப்பி, சட்ட ஆலோசனை பெற்று, பரிசீலித்து கொண்டிருக்கிேறாம்.

மீண்டும் அந்த பிரச்னையை, எதிர்க்கட்சி தலைவர் எழுப்பிய போது, 'பரிசீலிக்கப்படும்' என, தெரிவித்தேன். அனைவருடைய உணர்வுகளையும், அரசு கவனத்தில் கொண்டு நடவடிக்கை எடுக்கும்.
இவ்வாறு முதல்வர் தெரிவித்தார்.