CHENNAI: The Greater Chennai Corporation will set up 1 640 camps in the city to administer polio drops to children aged five and below on March 11. This is the second round of polio vaccination after January 28. The camps will be set up in corporation government and private hospitals bus termini and railway stations. As many as 6 700 government and contracted staffers will be engaged to work in these camps. A statement from the city corporation said though India had been declared free of polio by WHO administering the drops becomes imperative as polio is prevalent in neighbouring countries. It is not an alternative to the regular polio drops given to children but it is an addition the statement said. The corporation covered 7.5 lakh children in the earlier camp. In the last two years the corporation has achieved an average coverage of 105% in these camps.
CHENNAI: Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board has warned the public that it would initiate action against consumers who don t pay the second half-year taxes and charges to the water agency before March 31. In a statement the board said it would disconnect water and sewer connections of defaulting consumers if the dues are not paid. Consumers including those in added areas can pay their taxes and charges at Metrowater s head office in Chinthatharipet and at area and depot offices. Consumers can also pay their dues online on the agency s website www.chennaimetrowater.tn.nic.in.
CHENNAI: Hyderabad-based Pulsus Group on Friday announced its investment in DLF IT Park SEZ to focus on two areas - multi-lingual online scientific journals and pharmacovigilance. The company intends to generate over 2 000 jobs in Chennai and Gurgaon for Pharma and life sciences Graduates. Srinubabu Gedela CEO PULSUS said Our immediate plans are to build Pulsus into a go-to destination for premium scientific content and drug safety studies in Chennai and other parts of the world. We believe there is tremendous potential to grow in this field as there is huge demand in waiting to consume scientific and healthcare content in not just in English but also in regional languages as people will begin to search for content in regional words. Our ambition is to accelerate scientific progress and to turn what is discovered into benefits for all. An essential part of this is to ensure that scientific findings are rapidly accessible and easily discoverable for others to use and build upon. What is equally important is research findings are currently made available through journals in native languages including Tamil Hindi Gujarati Telugu and Malayalam to meet the aspirations of academic scientific and healthcare community he said. Commerce and industry minister Suresh Prabhu formally inaugurated the Chennai facility through a video conference and said Pulsus type of new ventures and innovations are essential to India healthcare and agriculture information updates. Gedela acquired Canada-based Pulsus Group last year. With offices in London Ontario Singapore Hyderabad Chennai and Gurgaon the company plans to open another facility in Visakhapatnam this fiscal year to add 2 000 more employees to its growing workforce in India. The company aims at investing Rs 1000 crore over the next five years to achieve its target of a 10 000 strong workforce that will produce health information services to pharma and market reports. All Pulsus facilities would be located in Special Economic Zones the company said.
NEW DELHI: Two Qatar Airways aircraft with about 500 passengers on board came dangerously close to each other while flying over Chennai airspace triggering the automated collision avoidance system that helped pull the planes away to safety. The near miss or aircraft proximity incident on February 17 involved a Boeing 777 flying from Doha to Bali and an Airbus 330 operating from Bangkok to the Qatar capital. A pilot of the Boeing 777 operating as QTR 956 sought the Chennai air traffic control s permission to climb to 39 000 feet from 37 000 feet and got the go-ahead. As the plane started climbing it came as close as 300 feet from QTR 825 the Airbus 330 that was flying on the opposite direction at 38 000 feet. This triggered the traffic collision avoidance system on both aircraft which sent a resolution advisory where computers take over controls of the aircraft and by asking one aircraft to climb and the other to descent to ensure that they do not hit each other. Qatar Airways didn t respond until press time Wednesday to an email seeking comment. There could be a lot of scenarios behind the incident and only an inquiry could bring out the facts an aviation expert said. An aircraft normally climbs at a rate of about 1 000 feet per minute but that climb rate is substantially reduced at an altitude of 37 000 feet. An air traffic controller would normally calculate the time taken to climb and would have allowed the aircraft to climb only after calculating the distance between the two aircraft said Shakti Lumba a former pilot and head of operations at IndiGo and Air India. One needs to see whether there was a lag between the permission given to climb and the actual climb he said. Even a relatively short lag between the approval and the actual climb has the potential to bring the aircraft closer to each other. Only a detailed inquiry would reveal the real reason for it he added. A government official said the incident was a serious one and that the authorities had discussed it at the top level. An inquiry is being carried out by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation on the incident said the official who did not want to be named. DGCA deputy director-general Lalit Gupta didn t respond until Wednesday press time to an SMS seeking comment.
CHENNAI: Under-privileged children undergoing treatment at Adyar Cancer Institute have something to cheer about. Cuddles Foundation an NGO that provides holistic nutritional support to underprivileged children affected by cancer has tied up with AnandRathi Wealth Services that aims to raise funds to provide food and nutrition to over 100 malnourished children undergoing treatment for cancer. Launching the first ever fund-raising event in Chennai AnandRathi aims to support Cuddles Foundation in providing food and nutrition to 100 malnourished children diagnosed with cancer. The initiative will enable the foundation to start their services in two more hospitals Christian Medical College Vellore and Meenakshi Mission Hospital and Research Centre Madurai. Cuddles Foundation founder and CEO Purnota Dutta Bahl said The chances of survival for underprivileged kids are 90% to 92% but most of the kids end up having incomplete treatment because of malnutrition. Even the government thinks there is a need for it. Dr R Venkat Raman an oncologist at the Cancer Institute said Cuddles Foundation has been supporting the malnourished children at the institute for a year. They have provided food and nutrition for 300 children. Cuddles have also provided easy tubes which the children are using because it is less painful he added.
ALSO READ ED attaches 158 properties valued at Rs 37.79 crore under PMLA in TN Govt eyes to make PMLA more effective Govt to bring corporate frauds under PMLA ambit Enforcement Directorate probing money laundering in PNB fraud case - source ED attaches Abhijeet Group s assets worth Rs. 38.07 cr span.p-content div id = div-gpt line-height:0;font-size:0 The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday attached nine immovable properties worth Rs 27 crore of three people under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).R. Devadoss Reddy of M/s Shriram Enterprises his wife Bhanumathi and his late son Vinoth Kumar of Vallur village in Chennai are accused of cheating impersonation forgery and selling of vacant lands according to the ED s official statement. The state police have registered three FIRs against Reddy Bhanumathi and late Vinoth Kumar under sections 419 (punishment for cheating by impersonation) 420 (cheating) 465 (forgery) 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) 471 (both related to forgery) and 120 B (punishment of criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).The ED has also registered a money laundering case against Reddy and others as the sections 120B 419 and 420 of IPC are covered under the scheduled offences of PMLA 2002.During the investigation it was revealed that Reddy has acquired nine immovable properties out of the proceeds of crime.Earlier a total of 46 properties worth Rs. 41.48 crore bought from the proceeds of crime was provisionally attached. A prosecution complaint has already been filed in the case. Total attachment in the case now is Rs 68.48 crore.Further investigation is in progress.(This story has not been edited by Business Standard staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
CHENNAI: In the wake of a surge in messages soliciting organs in social media the state health department has warned that those found circulating such information will be penalized. In the last six months doctors and transplant experts say there has been an increase in the number of messages that offer kidneys for a sum and those who offer to donate organs of their deceased kin. Some of these messages are old ones that are re-circulated. The origin of most of these messages has been traced to outside the state said a senior official in the health department. Either way it is misinformation. No organ donation can happen until it receives authorization from the state he said. The government the official said will crackdown on the circulation of such messages. We will ask the cybercrime cell to trace the origin and take necessary action. The public should desist from sending these messages. If they want to do good they should encourage people to register as donors he said. Organ donation in the state is governed by the Transplantation of Human Organs (amendment) Act 2011 and the Transplantation of Organs and Tissue Rules 2014. The Act allows medical experts to certify a patient http://kkdigital.myblog.de/ as brain dead by following due process harvest organs and tissues from living donor and cadavers and forming a regulatory and advisory bodies for monitoring transplantation activity. Tamil Nadu has an online transplant registry (TRANSTAN) with records of patients waiting for kidney liver or heart transplants in the state. The registry also maintains data on hospitals registered to conduct transplant surgeries and updates on the number of surgeries conducted in the state every day. A preliminary search online reveals a host of websites that offer organs for a price. On social networking forums and private sites with message boards there are hundreds of people interested in selling and buying kidneys. Transplant authorities in the state said they had lodged at least three complaints in the last four months against some of these groups in the cyber-crime cell. Dr Sunil Shroff of MOHAN Foundation an NGO that promotes organ donation said they receive several emails from people wanting to sell their kidneys. We even lodged a police complaint in Mumbai when a message started doing the rounds that our organization would buy kidneys said Dr Shroff. Online forums should be moderated and websites should be careful about the kinds of comments that are posted on them he said.
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