Andhrapradesh

Govt. will recruit physiotherapists at teaching hospitals, says Minister

STAFF REPORTER

GUNTUR, SEPTEMBER 09, 2018 00:00 IST




Minister for Social Welfare Nakka Ananda Babu releasing a brochure during the World Physiotherapy Day celebrations in Guntur on Saturday.T. VIJAYA KUMAR
‘Cabinet has given nod to set up council’

Minister for Social Welfare Nakka Ananda Babu has pledged support to the strengthening of the Physiotherapy Council of Andhra Pradesh including starting new courses and filling up posts of physiotherapists in government teaching hospitals.

Addressing a meeting during the World Physiotherapy Day celebrations organised by the A.P. Physiotherapy Federation here on Saturday, Mr. Babu said the Cabinet had recently given its nod to set up the Physiotherapy Council, giving statutory recognition to the body.

The council would frame guidelines for sanctioning new colleges, decide syllabi and start admissions.

Stating that Physiotherapy was an essential branch of supportive medicine, Mr. Babu said the course was started during the TDP government in 1996.

Guntur Urban Superintendent of Police Ch. Vijaya Rao said the field was vital to supportive medicare which helped sportspersons. He said physiotherapists should be encouraged by the government as they were offering quality supportive services to Orthopedicians, neurologists and other specialists.

Agricultural Market Committee chairman Mannava Subba Rao said nursing and physiotherapy constituted an important branch of medicine.

Corpus fund

The Federation pledged to constitute a corpus fund of Rs. 1 crore to meet exigencies.

Federation president Naga Sateesh, secretary Subhani, vice president Hari Krishna and state convener Rajesh Roshan were present.

High Court directs insurance firm to pay compensation

STAFF REPORTER

MADURAI, SEPTEMBER 09, 2018 00:00 IST

The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court has dismissed the appeal of a nationalised insurance company and directed them to pay appropriate compensation towards the family of the deceased.

Justice J. Nisha Banu observed that interpretation of Motor Vehicles Act,1988, should be more beneficial to poor victims and directed the insurance company to pay the compensation. The National Insurance Company appealed against a lower court order which directed the insurance company to pay appropriate compensation to the family of the victim.

The case is that the deceased, Moorthy, had engaged a bore-well drilling truck for sinking a borewell at his plot in Seelanthikulam in Tirunelveli district.

On the fateful day, the deceased was inspecting the work at his plot when all of a sudden a rod from the drilling machine hit Moorthy. Due to the impact, he suffered injuries on his head and body. He later succumbed to his injuries at a private hospital.

The lower court had observed that this was an act of negligence on the part of the truck owner and directed the insurance company to pay compensation and recover the same from the owner of the vehicle. The insurance company had contended that it was not liable as the accident occurred due to the drilling machinery which was not part of the insured lorry.

School teacher placed under suspension for absenteeism

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

KRISHNAGIRI, SEPTEMBER 09, 2018 00:00 IST

A mathematics teacher, Jayaprakash, of Kummanur Government High Secondary School was placed under suspension here for continued absenteeism, which had led to the appointing of proxy teachers by the parent-teacher association (PTA) to take classes. The teacher was suspended following a report by the District Education Officer.

Chief Education Officer D.Maheshwari told The Hindu that the appointments were was made by the PTA and the salaries were paid by them.

Jayaprakash, who was paid government’s salary had not taken a single class for the students. An inquiry by the DEO, which included testimonies by the school HM and the students, revealed that Jayaprakash had not taken any class.

Following the suspension, the PTA had mobilised some students to kneel in protest under the sun. “This in itself is an offence under the RTE Act, and is punishable,” the CEO said. The Hindu was unable to reach the PTA president for his version.

Hospitals asked to register with govt.

STAFF REPORTER

ERODE, SEPTEMBER 09, 2018 00:00 IST

The district administration has asked all government and private hospitals and clinics in the district to register themselves with the government.

A press release from Collector C. Kathiravan said that Tamil Nadu Clinical Establishment (Regulations), Act, 1997 and Rules 2018 mandated that all hospitals register with the government in order to ensure quality service.

All the hospitals, primary health centre, diagnostic centres, dispensaries, nursing homes or clinics, scan centres, treatment centres under AYUSH, centres providing hydro therapy, mud therapy, magnet therapy, massage therapy, chrome therapy, electro therapy and acupuncture should register themselves with the government.

They should downloaded Form 1 from the website www.clinicalestablishments.gov.in and submit the filled-in form with a Demand Draft for Rs. 5,000 drawn in favour of “The Joint Director of Medical and Rural Health Services” payable at Erode, along with certificates from Fire Service Department, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, bio-medical waste disposal certificate, building stability certificate, details of doctors, nurses and other details sought for to the office at District Headquarters Hospital by September 30.

Govt. gathering legal opinions on convicts’ release

T. RAMAKRISHNAN

CHENNAI, SEPTEMBER 09, 2018 00:00 IST

Advocate General to give his view by Sunday

Even as the State Cabinet is set to meet here on Sunday afternoon, the government is in the process of gathering legal opinions from different sources on the issue of the premature release of seven convicts undergoing life imprisonment in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.

The scheduled meeting of the Cabinet has assumed importance against the backdrop of the Supreme Court, in the V. Sriharan @ Murugan & Others v/s Union of India case, stating that “the authority concerned [Governor of Tamil Nadu] will be at liberty to decide the said application [filed by A.G. Perarivalan @ Arivu before the Governor under Article 161] as deemed fit.” It disposed of the writ petition and all pending applications, which essentially pertained to the remission of the convicts.

In his response to the Supreme Court’s order, Law Minister C.Ve. Shanmugam reiterated that there was no change in the stand of the State government, which favoured the release of the convicts — a position taken in February 2014 and in March 2016, when former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa was alive. However, he said the government had to study the order before taking any decision on the matter.

The Governor has “unfettered powers” under Article 161 to “grant pardon, reprieve, respite or remission of punishment or to suspend, remit or commute the sentence of any person convicted of any offence against any law relating to a matter to which the executive power of the State extend(s).” Sources in the government say it is being argued by a section of experts that as the Governor is to be guided by the decision of the Cabinet on such a matter, there will be no legal impediments to the release of the convicts. The death sentence for Nalini, one of the convicts, was commuted to a life sentence in April 2000 only through this provision.

Another opinion that the government received was that the “concurrence” of the Central government was required in this matter, and the Governor cannot go merely by the advice of the State Cabinet. The Centre has taken the stand that the convicts cannot be released. A Presidential order issued through the Ministry of Home Affairs, dated April 18, 2018, is being cited in support of this viewpoint. In the order, the Centre did not concur with the proposal of the State government. Any move to release the convicts “will set a very dangerous precedent and lead to international ramifications by other such criminals in the future,” the order said.

It is learnt that the government has forwarded the case to the Advocate General, who is likely to provide his opinion by Sunday.

Rajinikanth starts shooting in Lucknow for Petta

Itishree.Misra@timesgroup.com 09.09.2018

Rajinikanth arrived in Lucknow on Friday morning to begin shooting for his film, Petta. The actor was surrounded by nearly 40 bouncers, who accompanied him on the flight from Chennai and will be with him throughout the film shoot. This is Rajini’s first film to be shot in Uttar Pradesh.

A huge crowd had gathered at the Chaudhary Charan Singh Airport in Lucknow to see the actor and screamed out his name as soon as they spotted him coming out of the arrival lounge.

Rajini will be shooting in the UP capital for more than a month and will then also shoot portions of the film in Varanasi and Sonbhadra. The film, directed by Karthik Subbaraj, also stars Nawazuddin Siddiqui in a prominent role.

“The Lucknow police has deputed 25 constables along with a Circle Officer for Rajini sir’s security. He will also be provided with a police escort for the entire duration of his stay in the state capital,” informs Eiqbal Jaafri, the line producer of the film.

“There are more than 500 people involved in the shooting schedule and the film will be shot at Chowk, Malihabad, Sitapur and Barabanki, along with other locations in and around Lucknow,” adds Jaafri.

According to sources, the producers and Rajini are being very particular about the shoot pics not being leaked out and for that, the crew and supporting cast is being given the scenes on the day of the shoot itself and no mobile phones are being allowed on the set.



The first look of

Petta


Rajinikanth, on arrival at Lucknow airport on Friday morning

THE LUCKNOW POLICE HAS DEPUTED 25 CONSTABLES ALONG WITH A CIRCLE OFFICER FOR RAJINI’S SECURITY. HE WILL ALSO BE PROVIDED A POLICE ESCORT

–Eiqbal Jaafri, line producer

DELICATE OP

In a surgery of nerves, docs hold theirs and save life

DurgeshNandan.Jha@timesgroup.com

New Delhi:09.09.2018

A quick fix measure adopted by doctors at AIIMS saved the life of a woman who suffered damage to a major blood vessel during spine surgery. As well as being recognized as a novel treatment by the British Medical Journal, the technique used could prove valuable in dealing with similar cases in the future.

The details of the medical thriller were published by the reputed journal in its latest issue. The case involved a 42-yearold woman who had a prolapsed disc in the lower spine due to which she could not sit or lie down comfortably. Her son, a doctor, decided get his mother operated on at AIIMS trauma centre.

The woman, whose identity has been withheld, was hypertensive, though her blood pressure was under control through medication. The procedure for relieving the pressure the prolapsed disc was placing on some nerves was progressing well when the patient suddenly exhibited very low blood pressure (60/40mm Hg).

Surgery was abandoned and medicines injected to stabilize her. The operating surgeons, however, struggled to discover the reason for the drop inblood pressure. The presence of blood showed up in a scan and the doctors realized that during the operations, the common iliac artery (CIA), a major blood vessel, had been punctured. Two veins bringing back blood to the pelvic region were also damaged.

Despite all measures to resuscitate the women, she kept sinking, and before the medical team could decide the next step, she suffered a cardiac arrest. The patient would have died in a few minutes were it not for the timely intervention of a surgeon on duty who decided give her open-heart massage by cutting open the chest cavity and manually pressing the heart instead of cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, as usual. After 15 minutes of manual massage, the patient miraculously revived. Once her blood started circulating, the doctors identified the site of the blood leakage.

However, this was only a minor win in the gigantic crisis at hand. Injury and haemorrhaging require urgent recognition and appropriate surgical management.

So, in a quick-fix, now termed novel by the British Medical Journal, Mishra’s team repaired the CIA by transposing a segment of the internal iliac artery, which supplies blood to the pelvic regions and legs. “The technique is simple, reliable and fast and may prove valuable in dealing with such injuries,” the BMJ noted.