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Railway Station Contributes to Create Awareness on AIDS

In a unique initiative a railway station – Ongole town in Andhra Pradesh has starte... the Andhra Pradesh State AIDS Control Society and railway officials. Chinna Anjaiah, a doctor posted at the health unit near the railway station said: "The ...

Condom Vending Machines Increasing Sexual Assaults On Women

... places. This included places like the bus stands, railway stations and public bathrooms especially in well educated states like Kerala. However, surprisingly this bold step by the government has to some extent backfired. The step has raised anger in the Muslim women’s organization (Jama’at – e_Islami Hind...

When A Prince Chose To Help Indian Couple

...mad Shakeel Ahmad runs a small shop near the Patna railway station and they could hardly think of spending the money required for the surgery. 'It is a miracle that god has listened to our prayers ' the overjoyed mother told IANS at her modest home in Samanpura colony. 'We were always hopeful that one day ...

Lovers Latest Hang Outs – Railway Platform

Mumbai lovers prefer the most crowded railway stations and bus stops to express their romance. ...7, hangs around with his girlfriend at the Andheri railway station//. He meets her three times in a week and is happy about the venue. As both work, it is the...

Defibrillators In Public Places Will Help Cardiac Patients

...een earmarked for public places, such as airports, railway and underground stations, coach stations, ferry ports and shopping centres, across Britain. The move was introduced to help increase the survival rates of the seven in 10 cardiac arrests that happen outside hospital. --Edited IANS...

Health care system “Consumer friendly” by 207

...bile hospitals and health check up facilities near railway station, shopping malls and commercial places. Patients can also have the option of having two doctors in their NHS plan one near their home and the other near their work place. These plans are part of making the health care system friendlier and eas...

Indian Government To Promote Better Sanitation

.... Places like hospitals, market places, //schools, railway stations, bus stands, and slums will be targeted by the sanitation initiative. The Rs. 1.1 million project has been set up in partnership with the district administration, Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO) and Sulabh International, wh...

Railways Not To Include Chicken & Eggs In Menu

...as been issued to all the Zonal Railways and other railway departments that cater to the passengers. An official quoted that such a decision was taken upon the public interest. As the disease itself is highly contagious, which spreads through H5N1 virus, chances of infection among the catering staff hand...

Indian Railways Reverts To Serving Chicken on Menu

... the serving of chickens and eggs in any form from railway static catering units or mobile catering units," the Railway ministry said in a statement. "It is now safe to consume properly cooked poultry meat as conventional cooking at temperature of 70 degrees Celsius will inactivate the H5N1 virus." However, ...

Signature Campaign: Striking doctors take to the streets

...embarked on a public signature campaign at several railway stations in the city. Resident doctors in lab co...epresenting their alma mater, were seen filling up railway stations to appeal to the public. Doctors from JJ hospital, KEM hospital, thronged the stations earl...

Mobile Clinic For Sex Workers In Pune

...positives. Officials said they would also target railway stations, localities adjacent to the airport and corporate areas where a large number of sex worker operate during the night. However, names of the patients would be kept secret. "Every patient is very important to us and we would never disclose ...

A Unique Train To Spread Awareness About AIDS

...ing for four trains. But after discussing with the railway ministry and studying technical viabilities, authorities zeroed down on one train," Quraishi told IANS on the sidelines of a health and youth seminar here. "It will reach out to over 40,000 villages." The project, which will cost around Rs.250 mill...

Polio Strikes Again

...e set up at important junctions like bus stops and railway stations across the district, attendance for registration was less than 25 per cent, unlike the previous records of minimum 70 per cent. The health department in Jamshedpur has incurred an expenditure of about one crore in organizing the polio immu...

Government Questioned On Providing Unhygienic Food In Train

...elhi High Court Thursday asked the government, the railway ministry and the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corp (IRCTC) to reply to a petition accusing them of supplying unhygienic food to rail passengers.// A division bench comprising judges M.K. Sharma and Reva Khetrapal issued notice to the responde...

Patients Bear The Brunt Of Doctor’s Strik

...jobs if they don't rejoin work. We have also asked railway and army doctors to lend their support to the hospitals in Delhi," Ramadoss said. Responding to the health ministry's direction, 70 doctors have rejoined duty at Safdarjung Hospital and 81 at the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital in the heart of the city....

Doctors Urge Government To Roll Back Quotas

...octors ‘anytime today’. Even though some army and railway doctors have started helping at government hospitals, patients have been suffering. ‘I came to the hospital this morning but no one was there in the OPD to examine my son who had broken his hand late last night,’ said Saroja Devi from the neighbour...

College Student Commits Suicide After Failing In HSC Exams

...iled in two papers. Later, he threw himself on the railway tracks when the fast Deccan Queen was passing by, they said. He was declared dead on arrival at a railway hospital, police added. Source:PTI News...

Drug Refused to Asbestos-Linked Cancer Patients

...asbestos. People who are involved in shipbuilding, railway engineering and asbestos product manufacturing are at an increased risk. . A cure for the disease is not available and pemetrexed disodium treatment is used to maintain the quality of life. The makers of the drug, Eli Lilly, said it will appeal ...

Official Lapses Lead to NRI’s suicide in Londo

...post office worker Manjit. On that day, she told a railway worker at the station: "I'm taking my children to see the trains." In February this year, Sidhu's mother, Satwant Kaur Sodhi, 56, committed a similar suicide by jumping in front of a train at the same spot. An inquest into all four deaths will take...

1.8 mn Delhi Children to Receive Anti-polio Drops

...be administered thorough 7,500 booths stationed at railway stations, inter state bus terminals, public places like Appu Ghar, major temples, metro stations, Millennium Park, Zoo and outlets of McDonald's. Besides, a door-to-door weeklong survey would also be conducted under search and immunisation phase of...

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