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Eminent social worker and President of Association of Health Care Providers, NCR region Dr. PN Arora has hailed the interim budget presented in the Lok  Sabha last week and observed it had taken care of all segments of the society with its progressive and inclusive outlook.   After a detailed study of the budget proposals, Dr. Arora, Managing Director Yashoda Super specialty hospital, Kaushambhi said the scheme announced for farmers is highly appreciable as “it will go a long way in helping farmers,".    On tax proposals, he said tax concessions announced for the middle class and salaried people are very significant and because of much sought after and long-awaited relief to them. He said welfare  schemes for farmers, IT rebate to infra funds & housing as well as in the sphere of healthcare, the budget is a well-balanced one and it will help the cause of farmers, workers and the poor and especially the middle class that has been neglected ...

     Neeraj Bajpai   For 2019 General elections, leaders of political parties have started huddling in war rooms, and are deeply engaged in back channels dialogues to stitch alliances for a sure shot clincher at the hustings .      Strange bedfellows’ syndrome is an order of the day. Stakeholders are making desperate bids to showcase the credible and winning grouping ahead of polls, due within the next three or four months, to elect 17 th  Lok Sabha. With the first phase of the winter session coming to end this week, parleys among parties have gained momentum, the formal seal on these tie-ups might be stamped only after the declaration of elections because that paves the way of imposition of a code of conduct. Old saying --when the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others windmills-is virtually palpable. And many turncoats can be seen making windmills by crossing sides and some are making walls so that allies don’t run a...

  For an agriculture labor cum daily wage construction worker, it was a great day when he managed to improve education facilities in his alma mater in a mofussil corner of southern Karnataka in recent past .  In his school’s modernized building, a mothers’ conclave was held to felicitate them as they are the first teachers of kids, and their dedicated efforts in grooming kids cannot be measured by any yardsticks. For Nagappa Veerappa of Bakkannanavar of village called Devagiri in Haveri Taluka / District of Karnataka, a great dream has come true. Born to a poor family, he, throughout his student life, worked as an agriculture labor, building construction worker, a security guard and so on to meet my daily expenses and completed my Master of Library & Information Science and Ph.D. in 1997 and 2009 respectively. Currently, he works with Tata Consultancy Services, Bangalore. Fired by zeal to impart the skills to students, he always envisioned scope for school improv...

The NCR based super specialty Yashoda hospital has been awarded the coveted CII -Exim bank award for business excellence in extending affordable medical care by a band of medical experts and the cutting edge technology. The  CII confers awards to MSME units for their business excellence since1997 and this year, the Kaushambhi based hospital in the platinum category.    Giving this information at a function organized here on Monday, the hospital's Director Ms.Upasana Arora said they would further improve the affordable health care services in the hospital irrespective and excellence in the delivery of services was an automatic process because of dedicated staff and cutting-edge technology Speaking at the function, Anil Agarwal, Rajya Sabha member, commended the hospital staff for dedicated service to patients and felt more laurels would be awarded to the hospital for recognition of its services.      He said the award has added gl...

International health specialists have cautioned against increasing cases of measles and felt that the world runs the risk of losing decades of progress in protecting children and communities against this devastating, but entirely preventable disease Airing concerns over reported measles cases spike, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, Deputy Director General for Programmes at WHO has said The resurgence of measles is of serious concern, with extended outbreaks occurring across regions, and particularly in countries that had achieved or were close to achieving measles elimination. According to a new report published today by leading health organizations, reported measles cases spiked in 2017, as multiple countries experienced severe and protracted outbreaks of the disease. This is Because of gaps in vaccination coverage, measles outbreaks occurred in all regions, while there were an estimated 110 000 deaths related to the disease. Measles is a serious and highly contagious disease. It can cau...

The proportion of population vulnerable to heat exposure is rising globally A worldwide study on health risks of climate change has sounded alarm bells just ahead of the 24 th  Conference of Parties on Climate Change beginning on December 3, 2018, in the town of Katowice in Poland. The meet will have brainstorming sessions as it is here that the Paris Rulebook – the recommended modalities, procedures and guidelines under the Paris Agreement – will be finalized. The Paris Agreement, which entered into force in November 2016 following its ratification by 55 nations, prescribes an overarching temperature goal – to keep the increase in global average temperature to well below 2 o C above pre-industrial levels and pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 o C. The rising vulnerability to the heat-related risks of climate change is mirrored by increased exposure to higher temperatures. Despite a mean global temperature increase of 0.3°C between 1986 and...

Manoj Akash, a young student dreams to touch “Akash”; Develops device to predict Silent Heart attacks For once, he was an avid reader of medical literature for a leisure reading, but he was shocked to see passing away of his grandfather suddenly without betraying any sign of the tragedy. The tragedy at home for Manoj Akash was a turning point. It threw him into deep thought process how such silent heart attacks can be predicted in advance? His grandfather was suffering from diabetic and high blood pressure, but his ischemia wrought havoc in the family.  Manoj Akash, a student of Ashok Leyland School, Hosur, and Tamil Nadu could not digest the 2015 tragedy and riveted attention to explore ways and means to work out the solution. The skin patch invented by Akash has to be attached to the wrist or the back of the ear and it will release a small ‘positive’ electrical impulse, which will attract the negatively charged protein released by the heart to signal a heart attack. If ...