Showing posts with label Medical. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Medical. Show all posts

Thursday, August 4, 2011

UP NRHM SCAM: CBI files two cases against Shukla, Sachan!


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PTI / The Hindu / NEW DELHI, August 4, 2011.

Lucknow Deputy CMO Sachan who was accused in the CMO murder case. A PTI file photo.
Lucknow Deputy CMO Sachan who was accused in the CMO murder case. A PTI file photo.

CBI has booked former Chief Medical Officer of Lucknow A K Shukla and former Deputy CMO Y S Sachan, who recently died inside Lucknow district prison under mysterious circumstances, in the multi-crore National Rural Health Mission scam.

The agency has filed two cases in the scam as it found leads which indicate that huge financial bungling was allegedly committed by the UP Health Department officials in connivance with the contractors, CBI sources said.

The CBI has alleged in the FIRs that officials in-charge of funds from the Centre under the NRHM allegedly acted hand-in-gloves with the contractors to create fraudulent reimbursement bills in the names of hiring of vehicles and medicine purchases to withdraw funds for personal gains, agency sources said.

The agency has accused the then CMO A K Shukla, Deputy CMO Sachan, District Administrative Office C J Yadav and clerk P C Verma of cheating, criminal conspiracy, forgery among other charges under Prevention of Corruption Act, they said.

The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court had on July 27 directed the CBI to probe the murders of the two CMOs and also irregularities in implementation of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) within three months.

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Monday, July 11, 2011

TAMILNADU: TN govt introduces new medical insurance scheme!

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TN govt introduces new medical insurance scheme

Scrapping yet another initiative of the erstwhile DMK regime, Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa on Monday announced an improved medical insurance cover under which a family can derive a maximum benefit of 4 lakhs for four years.
The new scheme would cover 950 types of medical treatment as against the previous government’s scheme of 642 types, Jayalalithaa said, as she hit out at DMK, saying its scheme had benefited only private insurance firms and private hospitals.
“Under the new scheme, a family can avail medical benefits of upto 4 lakhs for four years while it was1 lakh for four years according to the previous scheme,” she said.


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Monday, May 16, 2011

Medicine borrows lessons, devices from IT!

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Ramya Kannan


Devices like iPod Touch help doctors in surgeries
Class X student invents device for heart patients


CHENNAI: Necessity may be the mother of invention, but it is creativity that brought information technology into medicine. While some advances such as telemedicine, and electronic medical records are now used widely, it is still the gadget-friendly specialists who have slowly brought these devices by the hand into medicine, realising the enormous advantage they have for the patient.

Some weeks ago, surgeons in Chennai and Mumbai used what you and I use to listen to music, and maybe browse the web, to conduct high-precision hip and knee replacements. In Chennai, Vijay C. Bose, an orthopaedic surgeon, who did the hip and knee replacements using the iPod Touch, explained that a specialised software developed by the company that provides the prosthesis had enabled the iPod to perform like a computer navigating for the surgeon. Once the co-ordinates are fed into the software, it zeroes in on a three dimensional location of the joint to be replaced, and indicates the point of fitting in the prosthesis.

Convergence of Advanced Type!

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