Vikas Vaidya

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis Shailesh Joglekar Dr Anand Pathak By Vikas Vaidya IN society many people lose their near and dear ones because of various reasons. The two young boys, who are close friends, also lost their close relatives — one his father while the other lost his wife — long back. The cause of death in both the cases was cancer. Both of them tried hard to save their near ones. During the ordeal, they saw not only the plight of their own people but also of others. After witnessing such sufferings, people express their feelings and say that ‘Somebody need to do something.’ But these young boys did not think like that. The feeling of sadness or zeal to do something big for the people so that they would not suffer, triggered these young minds and after 25 years, the dream got fulfilled and National Cancer Institute (NCI) came into being. Devendra Fadnavis, now Chief Minister of Maharashtra lost his father Gangadharrao d

Seaplane at Air India MRO at Nagpur along with the officials, Chhotu Borikar and others. By Vikas Vaidya Three months ago Union Minister Nitin Gadkari had announced that Seaplane would take off from Ambajhari lake soon. This was first reported by The Hitavada. Now Gadkari while talking to The Hitavada said that the trial of ambitious seaplane would be held in the month of November. It is his dream project. The Kodiak seaplane designed by Quest Aircraft company of USA had been to Nagpur eight days ago. It had landed at Air India’s MRO unit. The officers of the company had brought this 8-seater plane to Nagpur. Former Mayor of Nagpur Praveen Datke, General Secretary of BJP South-West Unit Chhotu Borikar and Vivek Dhakras were present. The trio had a look of the plane from inside. The project will be an outcome of collaboration of SpiceJet with Kodiak. It can fly using the fuel which is half the quantity that required for Mercedes Benz to run almost the same distance. Chhotu B

Stop TB Partnership, an UN organisation giving award to Dr Sunil Khaparde, Deputy Director General (TB), Ministry of Health for best TB programme at Mexico By Vikas Vaidya The Daily Regimen for Tuber Culosis (TB) treatment was initiated for HIV-TB patients, all across country. It was started in five states of Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, and Sikkim from February 2017. Now, it is being expanded to entire country. There are so many factors behind the marked success in TB, the one significant amongst those is Nagpur’s Dr Sunil Khaparde, Deputy Director General Central TB Division (CTD), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. The success in TB treatment is recognised at international level when Dr Khaparde received award by ‘Stop TB Partnership’, a United Nations organisation at Mexico for implementing TB programme successfully. Dr Khaparde is in city to deliver lecture during the State conference of Indian Medical Association (IMA) that b

By Vikas Vaidya Accepting the proposal of Dental Council of India (DCI) in principle for allowing bridge course for students of Batchelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) to do three year MBBS, Medical Council of India (MCI) has constituted Joint Study Group (JSG) to specify the guidelines to run the course. The Committee under the Chairmanship of Dr Vedprakash Mishra, Chairman of Academic Committee of MCI has chalked out the modalities on which the work is to be done. Dr Dibyendu Mazumdar, DCI President informed that DCI had brought out a regulation of allowing a student to go for a three years’ condensed course of MBBS after BDS. This will qualify them to also practice general medicine. He was in Nagpur for 42nd Annual Congress of Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons of India and Scientifically Sponsored Meeting by EACMFS being held at Empress Palace. When contacted Dr Vedprakash Mishra about the development of bridge course, he said, “DCI had sent a draft regulation to MCI.