Bhopal in Medical News

Funds Increased for Treating Bhopal Gas Victims

Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh will spend Rs.30 million per annum for the treatment of cancer patients afflicted with the disease after the Bhopal gas tragedy// - over four times the amount it spends at present. This would be effective from the coming fiscal (2007-08). "The existing fund of Rs...

Children of Bhopal Gas Victims Suffer from Deformity

Medical research is desperately needed, especially into the possible genetic and reproductive after effects, of the lethal gas leak in Bhopal exactly// 22 years ago that killed more than 3,000 people instantly and thousands more in subsequent years. Despite the neurological, hormonal and ment...

Six More Bhopal Gas Tragedy Continues to Take Toll

Bhopal, June 6. Twenty years on and the Bhopal Gas Tragedy continues to haunt the public of Bhopal. Today it was reported that there were six more victims dead from the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy //. Doctors at a hospital that was set up here to treat the affected people are being accused of ...

State Govt To Provide Safe Drinking Water To Bhopal Gas Victims

The government of Madhya Pradesh announced on Saturday a scheme that would provide safe drinking water to the victims of 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy//. The announcement came a day after the Bollywood star Aamir Khan offered his support to the gas victims. Minister for Gas Relief Babulal Gaur told IA...

Doctors Resign from Hospital for Bhopal Gas Victims

Bhopal: The 21st anniversary of the Bhopal gas leak tragedy was on Saturday 30 doctors of the Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Center resigned. The doctors wanted a pay hike. The hospital gets around // 1,000 victims visit for treatment daily. Run by a trust, the BMHRC was set up as a s...

500 People Affected by Gas Leak Near Bhopal

Nearly 500 people complained of burning eyes and nausea in Madhya Pradesh Sunday after allegedly inhaling toxic gas, the source of which remains unknown//. "Around 200 people in Kirat Nagar, Mendua and Nayapara Tola villages complained of vomiting and burning sensation in their eyes perhaps af...

Indian and Pakistani-origin Scots More Likely to Suffer Heart Attacks

... Indians and Pakistani origin Scots are more likely to suffer heart attacks, according to a new study. The study led by Dr Raj bhopal and Colin Fischbacher at the University of Edinburgh, however, noted that they are more likely to survive this trauma in comparison to their non-Asian...

Madhya Pradesh may Ban Sale of Vibrating Condom

...Condoms are used for family planning. When they are used for pleasure with devices like vibrators, they become sex toys. "Some students from a bhopal institute complained to me a week ago about the abundant availability of sex toys. I have taken up the matter with Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouha...

Minister from MP Urges to Ban the Sale of Sex Toys

...Condoms are used for family planning. When they are used for pleasure with devices like vibrators, they become sex toys. "Some students from a bhopal institute complained to me a week ago about the abundant availability of sex toys. I have taken up the matter with Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouha...

Sweltering Heat in Madhya Pradesh Claims Fifteen Lives

...to be the hottest at 48 degrees. Among other places, it touched 45.5 degrees in Khajuraho, 45.1 degrees in Chhatarpur, 44.8 in Gwalior and in bhopal it was 40.1 degrees Celsius. The maximum temperature came down to around 40 degrees in Bhopal, Indore and Jabalpur bringing some respite to p...

Steps To Prevent Out-Break Of Bird Flu

...demonstrated its policy to compensate poultry farmers for the poultry killed in operations. 13. High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL), bhopal is stocked with required reagents. 14. A project of Rs. 134.78 crores for preparedness, control and containment of Avian Influenza (AI) has bee...

Heartburn Shadowing Modern India

... A study conducted in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Lucknow, bhopal and Hyderabad has come out with results which show that irregular food eati... heartburn was as high as 82 per cent in Delhi, known for its spicy chaats, bhopal reported a 71 per cent prevalence, Kolkata 68 per cent, Lucknow (65 per cen...

New Vaccine to Tackle Rabies in Dogs

...ls the rabies virus that is usually present in the blood and saliva of a symptomatic rabid animal. The drug has been tested on 31 stray dogs in bhopal over two years. India has one of the highest prevalence of human rabies, and dogs, especially stray, are responsible for transmission of the vi...

Bhopal Gas Victims Demand Treatment of Children With Birth Defects

...h defects among their children//, survivors of the bhopal gas tragedy Sunday demanded free treatment of the ...on of Rs.1000 from the state government. The bhopal tragedy occurred on the night of December 2, 1984,...ot in 2004. The Trust organizations like the bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh (BGP...

Bhopal Gas Victims Get Spurious Drugs, Say Activists

... Terming it as a 'citizens raid', bhopal gas tragedy survivors' organisations claimed //to ...d and expired drugs from two medical stores of the bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department. ... had crossed their expiry date," Rachna Dhingra of bhopal Group of Information and Action (BGIA) said. ...

Bird flu outbreak prevented by Tamiflu

...bird flu outbreak when the deadly virus H5N1 struck the country in February 2006//. Scientists at the High Security Animal Disease Laboratory in bhopal carried out DNA sequencing and genetic analysis of virus collected from Jalgaon and Navapur. The findings showed that the virus was sensitive to Tamif...

India registers 3,000 dengue patients, toll crosses 40

...d Jyoti Ranjan. The viral disease was spreading in Madhya Pradesh since bhopal district reported the first dengue death Sep 29. The deceased, Kishore Singh Thakur of Bina district, was brought to bhopal for treatment Sep 12. Moreover, chikungunya, a relatively rare form of...

Bird Flu Vaccine Developed in India Could be Available for 35 Paise per Dose

... A vaccine to prevent avian flu developed by a research institute in the central Indian city of bhopal could be available for 35 paise per dose, amounting to less than a// cent, official sources said. Developed by the High Security Animal Disease ...

Major Hurdle towards Development of Bird Flu Vaccine in India.

... Scientists at the High-Security Animal Disease Laboratory in bhopal have finally helped to materialize India's dream of developing an effective...ulk before killing it to make the vaccine. Although scientists at the bhopal lab, which is India's only BSL 4 lab for animal research, the highest level...

Chennai Students Protest Against Aamir Khan for Endorsing Coke

... other celebrities. They have never claimed to have a conscience. Aamir has lent his support for the Narmada Bachao Andolan and for the victims of the bhopal gas tragedy," a student said. Not wanting to interrupt the awards ceremony, the students had attempted to seek an appointment with Khan. But th...

India Develops Test for Diagnosis of Deadly Livestock Disease

...y can make a revolution in the area of disease diagnosis.// Researchers led by Dr Harekrishna Pradhan at High Security Animal Disease Laboratory at bhopal last week announced that they have developed an avian influenza vaccine for the first time in India which can prevent H5N1 virus infection in birds an...

Private Nursing Home in Madhya Pradesh Fined For Negligence

... A private nursing home in bhopal and two of its doctors have been asked by the Madhya Pradesh Consumer forum to pay a Rs.100,000 fine for alleged// post-operative negligence resulting...

North East Having Highest Cancer Incidences In Country

...e National Cancer Registry Programme (NCRP) has shown.// Mizoram capital Aizawl has the maximum number of tongue cancer surpassing the figure of bhopal which had witnessed a horrible gas tragedy over two decades ago, Dr A Nandkumar, NCRP officer in-charge told a medical conference here today. N...

Junior Doctors In Madhya Pradesh Strike Work

...y the junior doctors. Junior Doctors' Association (JDA) state General Secretary Anand Rai told PTI in Indore that the strike was total in Indore, bhopal and Gwalior, while junior doctors in Jabalpur and Rewa plan to strike work tomorrow. Source:PTI News...

Arjun Singh Softens Stand on Quota But says Reservation Irrevocable

...n out candle light processions, in other cities they have walked with broomsticks in their hand. In Patna they burnt the effigy of Arjun Singh and in bhopal the students tonsured their heads to protest against the issue. The health service in hospitals has remained crippled in the capital New Delhi....

Bhopal Archbishop’s Concern Over Maternal Mortality Rat

... Expressing concern over the high maternal mortality rate in Madhya Pradesh, bhopal Archbishop Pascal Topno has called upon self-help groups to help check the menace//. With 13,000 reported deaths every year during or post pregna...

Diclofenac Drug Banned By MP Government Over Vulture Deaths

...vironment in Asia, the conference felt that there should be urgency in banning the drug. The central government has selected a forest sanctuary at bhopal under its vulture augmentation scheme, which would be executed by the Van Vihar (forest department), Bhopal. "Besides, the Ratapani, Singhori and...

Delayed Start By Niger On Culling Of Poultry

...al trappers trap the birds so government vets can collect 1 ml blood per bird. The samples are sent to the High Security Animal Diseases Laboratory in bhopal to test for avian flu. An angry BNHS Director Asad Rahmani says that this should be a priority project to understand the role of migratory birds in bi...

Dead Chickens: Is It Bird Flu or Heat Stoke?

...esidents started returning the chickens that they had bought earlier. The Animal Husbandry Ministry has sent the samples of the dead birds to a lab in bhopal to determine the exact cause of death. But the state Health Ministry however assured the residents of Bangalore not panic and insists that this is not...

Bird Flu Raises Its Ugly Head in Jalgaon and Madhya Pradesh

...bird-flu notification// in four villages in the district, during the II week of March, samples were sent to High Security Animal Disease Laboratory in bhopal which has confirmed that seven samples had tested positive for the H5 virus. According to Bijay Kumar, Commissioner, Animal Husbandry Department...

Bird-Flu: A Child and Two Adults, Quarantined At Jalgaon

... Also 100 fresh poultry samples from 15 tehsils that are not in the four bird flu-hit zones will go to the High Security Animal Diseases Laboratory at bhopal for testing. The 300 cullers, who had effected the culling operations, have been isolated for a week, as per WHO rules. After a week, their blood samp...

Bhopal Residents Relish Chicken despite Bird Flu Scare

... Nothing, not even the bird flu scare deters the bhopal residents from relishing their favorite chicken. With the reduction in the ...HSADL), the only laboratory in Asia that can detect bird flu. But the bhopal residents seem to have no issues with bird flu, as it has brought down chic...

Bird Flu Fear Grips Madhya Pradesh

... "Samples have been sent to the High Security Animal Disease Laboratory of bhopal to check whether the hens died due to bird flu," Damor told reporters. ...to other districts had been stopped, she said. A senior official of the bhopal laboratory said the samples from Burhanpur had been received. "It will take...

Bird Flu: India faces threat from China this winter

...f outbreak is always lurking. Indian authorities have already stepped up vigil and about 3,500 dead birds have been tested at the high-security lab in bhopal for H5N1 virus. A vigilance cell has been set up and poultry farmers in various parts of the country near the lakes have been told to keep check ...

India Has No Case Of Avian Flu Says Health Minister

...s to humans. So far it has been spreading from birds to humans. The 10,000 birds that died in West Bengal have been sent to a high security lab in bhopal and their samples have proved negative for avian flu. More than 60 people have died of avian flu in South Asia since 2003 and there is a fear of its ...