Vikas Vaidya

By Vikas Vaidya  It is the rude behaviour of Resident Doctors’ with the patients and their relatives while in casualty which is the main reason behind the attack on doctors. If this situation continues then the attack on doctors would also continue despite of laws being brought to resist the same. Taking serious cognizance of the same, Maharashtra Government has issued a circular wherein it has asked Deans of Government Medical Colleges (GMCs) of the state to conduct 6-monthly workshops to do the counseling of the Resident Doctors. Medical Education Minister Girish Mahajan expects the Resident Doctors to be courteous, polite with the patients and their relatives. The Minister also wants that the Deans of the respective GMCs should endeavor to make their college the ‘Zero Conflict Institute’. These are usual complaints against the Resident Doctors of not talking to the relatives. Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER) has tried to sort out those. DMER tried to f...

By Vikas Vaidya Schools in Maharashtra did not get over Rs 600 crore as a reimbursement amount against the admissions done under Right To Education (RTE) Act since 2012. Founder President of Maharashtra English School Trustees Association (MESTA) Sanjayrao Tayade Patil has warned School Education department that it would not cooperate if the pending amount is not paid by December 31 this year. He further said that the schools will not participate in the RTE admission process. After the RTE act becoming effective, it became mandatory for the schools to admit students under it in 25% quota. It was decided that schools would keep 25 per cent seats for the admissions to be done under RTE. Government will pay Rs 14,000 for every student to schools. This amount was raised to Rs 18,000 per year per student. According to MESTA, Government has paid some 65% amount of the total amount to some schools that too of the academic year 2012-13 and 2013-14. Not a single penny against the admiss...

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....

By Vikas Vaidya The Central Project Unit of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has created a module to build student-teacher relation in technical institutions of the country. This module will not only help in building this relationship but it will also become a guiding force for the institutions to enhance the quality of teaching, this is what AICTE feels. The technical institutions in the country are facing so many problems. They include rising vacancy, degradation of quality, student-faculty ratio, method of teaching. Considering all these aspect into consideration, AICTE has taken this step. This module will try to inculcate human values among students. The Central Project Unit of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) headed by its Advisor Dr P M Khodke has prepared modules. They started imparting training to teachers of technical institutions with a view that these teachers would pass it on to students. There are several problems from teacher as well...

By Vikas Vaidya The speculations reign supreme as to who will head the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) in Maharashtra. The interviews for the post of Director of Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) were conducted on Tuesday and the names are sealed in the envelope. The name will be declared very soon. Meanwhile the names of Dr S K Mahajan and Dr Abhay Wagh. The interviews for the post of Director of DTE conducted on Tuesday and the panel led by Dr Bhalchandra Chopne, former Vice-Chancellor of Nagpur University and ex-Director of DTE shortlisted seven names. The names include Dr S K Mahajan, Joint Director of DTE (Dr Mahajan has handled the charge of Director of  DTE for 8 years in a successful manner), Dr Abhay Wagh, Deputy Secertary of Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education (MSBTE), Dr Borikar, Dr G K Awari, Principal of Tulsiram Gaikwad Patil College, Nagpur; Dr Gulhane, Principal of Government Polytechnic, Murtizapur; Dr R P Mogre, Principal of Gov...

By Vikas Vaidya The issue of scholarship is haunting Maharashtra. To add to woes of beneficiaries the portal through which the procedure of scholarship conducted is not functioning since April 30. The website was being handled by MASTEK company whose contract came to an end on April 30 and since then the website is not functioning. With over Rs 100 crore pending with Government against the scholarship to be paid to students of reserved category, the educational institutes especially engineering colleges are facing financial crunch. Most of the colleges are unable to pay the salaries of their employees. The reliable sources told ‘The Hitavada’. The stoppage of website through which procedure of on-line scholarship gets operated, has brought everything related to scholarship to standstill.” It is learnt that MASTEK discontinued as the money was not paid to it. It was requested to TCS to run the website but that too did not work. The website does whole work of scholarship. It is t...

By Vikas Vaidya In the wake of deaths taken place due to spraying of insecticide, the issue of poison control centre has come up. ‘The Hitavada’ came to know the shocking information-- Maharashtra donot have Poison Control Centre. Poison Control Centre is a medical facility that is able to provide immediate, free, and expert treatment advice and assistance over the telephone in case of exposure to poisonous or hazardous substances. This is only one small part of the advantage of this centre. There are several other things that could have helped in preventing deaths that have taken place now, had the centre existed. One senior expert in Forensic Science told ‘The Hitavada’, “During the tenure of Thomas Benjamin as a Medical Education Secretary, it was proposed that such centre will be set-up in each medical college but that did not work out. The centre is meant to provide every information about poison, including its type. The centre is supposed to possess the information abou...

The perspective view of London street. By Vikas Vaidya Considering the increasing number of hospitals, clinics in Ramdaspeth and Dhantoli areas, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari had mooted an idea to shift the hospitals on London street or asked new ones to come or asked existing hospitals to do the expansion there. The project was gathering dust. But suddenly it has started taking momentum. The reason is it comes in the constituency of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis (South-West) who desperately wants to get it completed. The total area is 32 hectare starting from near Hotel Radisson Blu with length of 5.5 km that ends at Jaitala with average width of 70 meter. This was originally railway track and land was acquired by Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) from railway. The plot has an excellent location on South of the city. It runs parallel to the Ring Road and in close proximately to the Airport. Initially it was planned to set up 5-Star hotel, auditorium, cultura...

By Vikas Vaidya No matter the fact that India was declared ‘Leprosy-Free’ as long back as 2005, the demeaning disease seems to be assuming menacing proportions in the country, if the statistical details available from Nagpur District alone are to be taken as a measure. Government teams have found out as part of their work under National Leprosy Eradication Programme that the district has approximaterly 800 identified Leprosy patients, and the number is still growing, ‘The Hitavada’ has learnt authentically. If this is the case of only one district, then the figure of identified leprosy patients across the country is bound to be mind-boggling, experts suspect. In sharp contrast, the experts state that at this juncture, the whole of China has only 600 persons identified as afflicted by leprosy, thanks to the aggressive efforts of the Chinese authorities in the past some years. As part of the National Leprosy Eradication Programme, the Leprosy Unit of the Department of Public ...

By Vikas Vaidya With over Rs 100 crore pending with Government against the scholarship to be paid to students of reserved category, the educational institutes especially engineering colleges are facing financial crunch. Most of the colleges are unable to pay the salaries of their employees. This fact has been admitted by Education Minister Vinod Tawde. The issue has become bigger and if not resolved in time, it would have long term repercussions, warned experts. The Social Welfare department distribute the scholarship amount of about 1.54 lakh students of Nagpur district every year. This year it could distribute the scholarship worth Rs 90 crore of 89,000 students for the year 2016-17. The scholarship of 64,000 students amounting to Rs 70 crore is pending. Some Rs 40 crore of the year 2015-16 is yet not distributed. It means that about Rs 110 crore is yet not distributed. Over one lakh applications have been submitted by the colleges in Nagpur division to Social Welfare Departmen...

By Vikas Vaidya Remember? When Sanjay Dutt in ‘Munnabhai MBBS’ asks doctor to treat seriously injured patient, he asks to fill up the form. Dutt being hero of the movie forces the doctor to take the patient. But practically speaking no doctor could dare to treat the person of medico-legal case due to the fear of visiting court frequently. Now, Dr Vedprakash Mishra committee has come out with the proforma, filling which doctors need not visit court, plus they would happily treat such patients. Doctors heaved a sigh of relief after the passage of 11 years when Supreme Court delivered the judgement in Parmanand Katara verses Union of India. It may be noted that in the case of Pt. Parmanand Katara v. Union of India, the Medical Council of India (MCI) has submitted and that has been recorded in the judgment of the Supreme Court as under: “It is further submitted that it is for the Government of India to take necessary and immediate steps to amend various provisions of law which come i...

By Vikas Vaidya The website of Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) crashed on Thursday putting the students aspiring to get admission to law and engineering courses in a fix. The provisional merit list of the students aspiring to get admission to five year law course was to be displayed today. But when students tried to search the website they could not find the link leaving them clueless. In this technological era, when everything on-line is being promoted such glitches are unexpected. So students who have applied for five year law course are confused over their next couse of action. With schedule is disturbed the students are likely to suffer further in the process. Common Entrance Test (CET) was conducted for the admission to law. Many had thought that this examination would bring some peace to law applicants but it has done exactly the opposite. The probable date for the new academic session of 2017 to start is fixed at September 20. But with these glitches in earlier...

By Vikas Vaidya Most of the parents expressed anger over the new rule of admission process of bifocal courses of Class XI. When the on-line phase of Centralised Admission Process (CAP) for Class XI began, the parents suddenly realised the problem they would be facing. As per new rule the students willing to take admission to bifocal courses will have to take admission to General Science in a college allotted to them and that particular college would give them admission to bifocal course if it is available there. If they don’t get the admission to bifocal course, then they don’t have a choice than to take admission to General Science in the same college. The information booklets distributed to students have password, user ID. The students will go to their respective schools and centres to fill  the form. But the students of other than State Board will have to carry their documents which will be verified by the prescribed centres where they go. In on-line phase they would en...

By Vikas Vaidya  With reduction in temperature there are chances that the cases of swine flu may get increased. Earlier Nagpur had to send samples to National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune. Now the Microbiology department at Indira Gandhi Government Medical College and Hospital (IGGMCH) is conducting the tests for swine flu. Maharashtra Government recently authorised Dhruv Pathology Laboratory situated at Central Bazar road, in front of  Somalwar High School to conduct tests. Nagpur’s IGGMCH’s Viral Research Diagnostic Laboratory is authorised one. IGGMCH is testing the samples on Reverse Transcripted Polymerase Chain Reaction (RTPCR) machine. It is done as per guidelines. IGGMCH accpets samples of the patients who are being treated at Government hospitals only. Private hospitals have to send it to Mumbai that costs around Rs 3,000 per test which is done in IGGMCH free of cost. Deputy Director of Health of Nagpur Division Dr Sanjay Jaiswal said, “Government has aut...

By Vikas Vaidya With starting of Approach Control Service for arriving and departing aircraft based on Radar (Surveillance sensor) at Nagpur’s Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Aiport, the parallel taxiway can add to the efficiency of traffic management. With reduction in time, if flights are increased then additional taxiway can be a great boon as far as operations are concerned. The surveillance based approach control services could have been more efficient and fuel saving, had there been parallel taxiway/Rapid Exit Taxiway system at Nagpur airport. Many Passengers transiting through Airport, must have felt that aircraft take lot of taxi time on the runway including backtrack time due to lack of parallel taxiway/Rapid Exit Taxiway infrastructure at Nagpur airport. With the present state of available taxiway infrastructure at Nagpur Airport subsequent arrivals cannot be brought closer than 15 Nautical Miles (28Km) resulting in loss of time to subsequent arrivals and departur...

By Vikas Vaidya With the increasing need of healthcare facilities in India, Government is mooting out various ideas through which hospitals and doctors can be available in ample number. With this thought, now Government is creating Port hospitals on all shores in the country. This is the brainchild of our own Nagpurian Nitin Gadkari who happens to be the Minister of Shipping too. These hospitals are being created on Public Private Partnership (PPP) basis. The report in this regard was prepared by another Nagpurian Dr Vedprakash Mishra, Chairman of Academic Committe of Medical Council of India (MCI) and was submitted. This PPP model will pave way for the hospitals like Daga, Railways to be converted into medical colleges. The Ministry of Shipping, Government of India, may avail the model of starting of a medical college as has been evoked by the Government of Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar where under the concerned State Govt. availing his own District Hospital has start...

By Vikas Vaidya With high level of automation system and surveillance sensors available, it has been decided by Airports Authority of India (AAI) to provide Approach Control Service for arriving and departing aircraft based on Radar (Surveillance sensor) at Nagpur’s Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Aiport. This will not only save the time and fuel but also will help in increasing safety of passangers. With reduction in time, it will pave way for more number of flights to operate at this airport. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Airport, Nagpur presently caters to around 46 scheduled and 5 numbers of flight movements per day. Besides these movements, Nagpur Airport Runway also caters to flight operations to Air India MRO unit situated adjacent to Airport. Often the schedule movements take place in bunches during several periods of any given day. Airports Authority of India provides Air Traffic Control (ATC) and Communication Navigation and Surveillance (CNS) Services at Nagpur Airport...

Family members of Vinayak Deshkar                                               Organs being taken to airport from OCHRI                                            Team of doctors led by Dr Anup Marar By Vikas Vaidya CITY’S Deshkar family showed tremendous courage and a sense of philanthropy by donating organs of 67-year-old Vinayak Ramrao Deshkar, who was declared brain dead by doctors. What followed was a unique act of social commitment, urgency, and wonderful co-ordination between agencies as the organs were transported to airport through Nagpur’s first Green Corridor, on Saturday. Deshkar, aged 67, a resident of Plot No 36, Madhuban Layout, Narendra Nagar, had gone to Panchmarhi with his family where he collapsed on June 16. He was admitted to...

                               Dr Sameer Paltewar, Dr Parikshit Janai, Dr Gaurav Agrawal with the patient. By Vikas Vaidya IN A record of sorts, a team of doctors in city’s Meditrina Hospital has successfuly restored speech of a patient by implanting trachea reconstructed from the body part of the patient himself. This is probably the first of its kind surgery performed in India. The surgery was performed in four parts. The most difficult job was to implant the reconstructed trachea. It took 13 long hours but in the end the patient went home fit, fine and happy. Girish, a city resident, had met with a road accident in May 2015. He was in a critical condition after sustaining polytrauma. He required long term intubation, tracheostomy and ventilatory support. After recovering from the injuries he developed tracheal stenosis, which is a known complication of long term intubation. As a result, he...