-The Hindu Plastic surgeon V. Jayaraman, who treated her till the end said had responded to Treatment even on Monday. "We did our best, but she had a cardiac arrest. We tried to revive her twice," he added. Chennai: Vinodhini, the 23-year-old victim of an acid attack on November 14 died at a private hospital here around 9.10 a.m. on Tuesday. A youth, who had professed love for J. Vinodhini, a B. Tech...
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BPL card more important than brain scan for injured baby
-The Telegraph A baby girl in need of a brain scan has been turned away by every government hospital she has visited in six months because her unemployed single mother doesn't have a BPL card or the money for an MRI. Jhuma Majhi's daughter Brishti, a year and nine months old, was recommended an MRI of the brain last August after falling off a bed and suffering convulsions that have since become...
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-Outlook This could be the UPA’s worst cut to its beloved aam admi. Healthcare has virtually been handed over to privateers. Not For Those Who Need It Most Govt seems to have abandoned healthcare to the private sector Diagnosing An Ailing Republic 70 per cent of India still lives in the villages, where only two per cent of qualified allopathic doctors are available Due to lack of access to medical care, rural India...
More »Stampede claims 36 lives at Allahabad station
-Yahoo.com According to eyewitnesses, there were more than 4,000 people on the 150-metre long bridge over Platform No. 6, and many of them were leaning on the railing. ALLAHABAD: At least 36 people died and scores of others injured on Sunday evening when a stampede broke out at the Allahabad Junction teeming with pilgrims returning from the Mahakumbh here. The incident occurred around 7 pm, allegedly when a railing leading to a...
More »Welcome to closet illiberalism-Vidya Subrahmaniam
-The Hindu Caste might be cast in stone judging from the way the dominant discourse gets conducted in India “Caste is the most overwhelming factor in Indian life. Those who deny it in principle also accept it in practice. Life moves within the frontiers of caste and cultured men speak in soft tones against the system of caste, while its rejection in action just does not occur to them...” Socialist thinker Ram...
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