CM orders action against 2 officials for blocking Indira Canteen work

DHNS

July 22, 2017

Bengaluru, Jul 22: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday directed the suspension of Bengaluru South tahsildar S M Shivakumar and ordered issue of show-cause notice to Bengaluru regional commissioner M V Jayanthi for obstructing the construction of the state government’s flagship programme Indira Canteen at one of the locations in the city. Siddaramaiah4414

Siddaramaiah was reviewing the Indira Canteen project that offers meals and tiffin at subsidised rates to the urban poor. The government had set a deadline of August 15 to kick-start the canteens in all the 198 wards. However, the project has been facing numerous challenges, especially in obtaining land.

Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) officials apprised the chief minister that they had identified a location near PES College but Jayanthi and Shivakumar were obstructing it. It is learnt that the revenue department wanted to have its building on the piece of land. About two years ago, Bengaluru Urban district authorities had cleared encroachment from the land.

Sources said Siddaramaiah called the principal secretary in the revenue department Ramana Reddy and directed him to suspend Shivakumar and serve a show-cause notice on Jayanthi.

Palike officials apprised the chief minister that they have identified 182 sites to set up Indira Canteens while the search is on for the remaining 16 locations. Construction work has started at 72 places. They said by August 15, they will be able to set up only 125 canteens. The rest will be ready by October 2.

Officers informed the chief minister that 87 locations identified for the canteens belong to the 23 government departments. So far, 36 sites have been transferred to the BBMP while the remaining 51 sites will be handed over to the BBMP by Monday.

The Palike officers told the chief minister that preliminary work has started on 91 sites while construction is in full swing at 72 locations.

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Apoorva Diagnostic and Healthcare gets ICMR nod for covid-19 testing

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June 15,2020

Mumbai, Jun 15: Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has approved Apoorva Diagnostic and Healthcare (ADHC) located at Bhaktivedanta Hospital, Mira Road to test suspected coronavirus infections in the region. The lab is equipped to process 500 tests on a per day basis and can be scaled up to 1000 and follows the pricing as per ICMR guidelines. ADHC will be closely working with local hospitals and Mira Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC) to test suspected coronavirus infections in the region.

The municipal corporations who will benefit from this facility would be Palghar, Virar Vasai and Mira Bhayander. The run time for the patients’ blood collection samples will reduce significantly. The corporation earlier is known for becoming the first civic body to rope in private hospitals for coronavirus testing.

ADHC is the only lab operational for 24/7 thus supporting all the hospital and nursing homes in the Western region of Mumbai. ADHC is the only lab in this region equipped with fully automated frozen section, Immunohistochemistry (IHC) and complete Oncopathology services. Laboratory maintains the highest level of international standards and is the only lab in the state to introduce Artificial Intelligence in clinical pathology. One of the other unique feature of the lab is that it has the DNA film array technology for infectious panels and fully automated Microbiology lab which results in fast turnaround time to reduce hospitalization of the patient which helps reduce antibiotics harassment.

Dr. Ajay Sankhe, Director, Bhaktivedanta Hospital says, “We stand by our commitment to make the facility available for all the patients of Mumbai and will provide unconditional service in fighting the deadly disease We are always ready to serve the nation and our vision is to be a trusted healthcare partner enabling healthier lives.”

Kabir Das, Managing Director, ADHS, quips, “Current priority is to get over the crisis. The lab is a 24 X 7 high-tech diagnostic centre catering to all classes of society and meeting multifarious diagnostic needs with high precision and accuracy. Indian Council of Medical Research has approved our lab to test COVID-19 and we will surely extend all support needed.”

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Class 10 student of Siddaganga Mutt tests covid positive

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June 20,2020

Tumakuru, Jun 20: An SSLC student of Siddaganga Mutt here was admitted to the isolation ward of the district hospital on Saturday after he showed Covid-19 symptoms.

Health officials said that the student, a native of the Kurnool in Andhra Pradesh, had returned to the Mutt via Raichur on June 15 for writing the SSLC examination scheduled to begin on June 25.

After he was admitted to the hospital the Health Department Officials kept three of his roommates under quarantine. Throat swab sample of the student has also been sent for testing.

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