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Delhi Police, Home Guards to Guard LNGP

...he meeting. Negi said that resident doctors have promised to call off the strike after their general body meeting. "They may join work Friday." However, Jitendra Singla, president of the hospital's resident doctors' association, said they would take a decision on this issue on Friday. "The strike is still...

Delhi Hospital Medicos Calls Off Strike

...s with the striking medical personnel Thursday and promised that Delhi Police and home guards personnel would guard the hospital round-the-clock. "The existing private security firm taking care of the hospital has been removed with immediate effect. Some 70 home guards along with Delhi Police personnel will...

China Agrees to Share Bird Flu Samples

...are handled. But Brent said the WHO expected the promised samples soon. "Organizing logistics can be quite complex, so at this stage we don't have a timeline. But we feel rather hopeful that it will be in the near future," she said. While bird flu is mainly a disease in animals, experts fear it could mu...

Health Expert’s Appeal to Global Fund to Fight HIV, TB and Malari

...mestic resources, whereas the Global Fund has been promised sustained funding by the international community, allowing it to make sustained commitments to beneficiary countries. This is what some of the countries most affected by AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria need to increase their health workforce. Their he...

Overseeing Agency Indifferent to Workplace Safety in US

...publicans. Predictably the Bush administration has promised to address their concerns. Source-Medinda GPL/V...

Not Enough Tankers to Supply Water

...ast. It seemed like mere rhetoric when the Premier promised to bear the cost of transporting water to all the towns reeling under the water scarcity. Tony Ryan, a Warwick-based trucking contractor with Beaumont Transport, said "If it hadn't rained, we'd have been running 24 hours, round-the-clock to keep up...

Shocking Figures Of Britains Abused Elders Revealed

...n response, Care services minister Ivan Lewis, has promised a review of adult protection guidance and possible new legislation. The inquiry also found that half of all incidents involved a partner or family member, with one in eight involving a care worker. Speaking at the reports launch, Lewis said the rev...

Garbage Dumping Ground in Pune Causing Health Hazards to Nearby Residents

...e water is contaminated. Corporation officials had promised clean water. They have also laid a pipeline but there is no water, said Dnyaneshwar Admane, the village head. Tatya Saheb Bhadale, a village youth, said: Because of this, people from nearby areas are not giving their daughters in marriage to boys i...

Traders Smell Something Fishy in Tokyo Market Move

...r the Japanese," Noze said. The Tokyo government promised to replace polluted soil with fresh earth to a depth of 4.5 metres (15 feet) and says the problem has been solved. But faced with fierce opposition, Ishihara pledged in March -- in the midst of his campaign for a third four-year term -- to reinvestig...

China Turning Tables on the US on Food Import

...t week, the Chinese inspections administration has promised to implement a recall system for bad products by the end of the year. Its officials have also called for stronger surveillance and export controls in an effort to improve China's international image and foreign relations....

Radical Idea of Implanting Tiny Electrodes to the Deaf

...o help profoundly deaf people. An alternative that promised superior results was implanting a device directly in the auditory nerve. Now, however, scientists have shown in animals that its possible to implant a tiny, ultra-thin electrode array in the auditory nerve that can successfully transmit a wide ran...

Germany Pledges 5.4 Billion Dollars for AIDS Fund

... be renewed in the summit communique. And she also promised more German contributions to a global fund for the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. US President George W. Bush asked lawmakers last week to set aside 30 billion dollars over five years to fight AIDS worldwide, doubling the funding for...

Tension Building Up in FDA Over Drug Approvals

...ew C. von Eschenbach took over the FDA in 2005, he promised improvements, and agency officials said they would no longer be caught flatfooted on drug safety. Now on the defensive, Dr. von Eschenbach said the agency had done its best in regard to Avandia. It intended to warn patients rapidly when it receive...

Multinationals Exploit Groundwater Sources, and People Suffer

... plant a few years ago, locals have yet to see the promised economic rewards. "We've found that they mostly hire temp workers," says Donald Roy, who is involved with a citizen action group. "They pay many of them $10 an hour, no benefits, for a temp position, and then they can lay them off and not have to w...

Ostracized HIV-affected Widow Turns to Begging

...li block, pleaded ignorance about the case. But he promised to investigate and submit a report to his seniors....

Suicide Among Returning US Soldiers on the Rise

...withdrawn from his two young sons. One night, he promised his wife, Kim, that he would get help. The next morning, he was dead. The 40-year-old Cobra helicopter pilot, based at Camp Pendleton, Calif., had hanged himself. There are others. Pentagon does not seem to care, it is charged. For those reeling un...

Pakistani Doctors Behind Bars for Illegal Kidney Removals

...rwent surgery. 'These needy and poor people were promised $1,000 for their organs but most of them had not received a single penny after the kidney removal,' Cheema said. The case is complicated by the absence of laws regulating the sale of human organs in Pakistan. But police are able to prosecute beca...

WHO Announces Deal on Sharing Bird Flu Virus

...th body, the World Health Organization (WHO), has promised efforts would be made to ensure "fair and equitable distribution of pandemic influenza vaccines at affordable prices in the event of a pandemic." At the same time the bird-flu-hit countries agreed to "timely sharing of viruses" with the WHO. A ...

Singapore to Import Eggs, Fish from Andhra Pradesh

... a proper action plan with definite milestones. He promised to extend all support. He told them that they could start purchase of land from the farmers directly without involvement of middlemen. Setting aside the protocol, Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong hosted breakfast for Reddy while Presiden...

Now Kidney Stones can Be Healed With Low-cost Laser Technology

... at an affordable cost. When a hospital in Kolkata promised to remove the stone in a bloodless laser-aided operation at less than half the fee quoted by other hospitals, his prayers were answered. Roy, 32, of Bally in Howrah was taken to the city's Anandalok Charitable Hospital, in Salt Lake, where doctors...

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