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Seafarer's health not attended to during voyage; Lies critical in M'lore hospital

[email protected] (Abrar Ahmed Khan)
June 13, 2012

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Mangalore, June 13: In one of the rooms of the city's Colaco Hospital, Purushottam Nayar and Jalaja Kumari from Cochin are found sitting wearing a worrisome look, courtesy the critical condition of their son Arun P Nair, a seafarer who fell ill during his voyage. Currently, he lies unconscious in the ICU of the city's hospital.


According to Mr. Arun's relative Sunil, he joined the voyage in the ship 'M T Pratibha Cauvery' from Kolkata on May 31. Mr. Arun fell ill during the course of the journey and although his health condition was deteriorating, he was not paid attention to, his family members grouse.

Speaking to Coastaldigest.com, Mr. and Mrs. Nair alleged that ship's captain had not paid attention to the deteriorating health of their 21 year old son while on voyage.

The primary grouse of Mr. Arun's relatives is that he could have been dropped in Cochin, his hometown. “The ship was on its way from Chennai to Cochin when we received a call from his colleagues that he is ill. His colleagues had requested the ship captain to drop him at Cochin but the ship captain did not pay heed. He did not even inform the shipping company. When we called up the shipping company back then, they said they have no information. Arun was ill for the past ten days and could not eat and drink properly. Considering his deteriorating health condition, the ship authorities could have taken early action but they delayed things without giving him proper medical attention and today his condition has worsened”, says Ms. Baby, the sea farer's aunt.

The young seafarer was holding the rank D/GRSR (Oiler) in the ship. He has a contract with the Pratibha Shipping Company, Mumbai. He had left to Mumbai three months ago and later on was sent to Calcutta by his company where he joined the voyage.

Mr. Arun was in a pitiable state when he was dropped at Mangalore, say his relatives. “There was neither a single drop of water in his body, nor urine. He was so weak that he could not talk to his parents who received him at the Mangalore Port. They had not even arranged an ambulance for him and he could not sit in the car”, says Ms. Baby.

Mr. Arun was admitted to the city's hospital on Monday noon. He continues to lie unconscious and is reportedly suffering from the life threatening Septicemia infection besides Typhoid and ulcers in the throat.

The seafarer's relatives also say that they have not received his CDC, (the license given by the government for sea farers to enter ships) and his passport. “We have filed complaints with the Mercantile Marine Departments of Mangalore and Cochin. We have also filed a complaint with the Delhi branch of the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF)”, said Manoj, another relative of Mr. Arun.
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Arun's parents and aunt



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January 11,2020

Bengaluru, Jan 11: The Chief Justice of India Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde on Saturday inaugurated the phase-1 of the new building of the Karnataka Judicial Academy on Crescent Road in Bengaluru.

The new building has three floors, besides, the ground floor and two basement floors.

While Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa inaugurated the 319-seater multi-purpose auditorium, at which Chief Justice of the High Court of Karnataka Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka felicitated Justice Bobde.

Justice Ravi Malimath, President of the Karnataka Judicial Academy and Judge of the High Court of Karnataka, in his welcome address said that the academy has so far trained as many as 4000 judicial officers and striving for excellence in the field of judiciary.

The building, built in the first phase, has parking in the lower and the upper basement, which can accommodate 44 cars and 124 two-wheelers, the ground floor consists of a 319-seater multi-purpose air-conditioned auditorium, a lecture hall with 84 seats, two lecture halls with 40 seats each and a VIP lounge. The First Floor has a lecture hall with 84 seats, two lecture halls with 40 seats each, a VIP lounge, two discussion rooms and an administrative office for the staff of the academy.

The second phase, to be built has a parking facility for 36 four-wheelers and 22 two-wheelers in the lower basement and 32 four-wheelers and 30 two-wheelers in the upper basement.

The total cost of the project, including Phase-1 and Phase-2, to be executed by the Public Works Department in the sprawling 2.2 acres plot of the Karnataka Judicial Academy is around Rs 96.02 Crore.

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Mangaluru, Apr 18: Food kits were distributed to as many as 100 needy Beary poets, writers and artistes’ on behalf of the Karnataka Beary Sahitya Academy at a simple ceremony held at the Academy office here on Friday.
 
The service initiative during the Lockdown was taken up as per the guidance of Minister for Kannada and Culture C T Ravi.
 
Dakshina Kannada District in-charge Minister Kota Srinivas Poojary distributed the kits to the beneficiaries.

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May 25,2020

Udupi, May 25: In an early morning robbery, two miscreants snatched around 1.2 kilo grams of gold jewelleries from a jeweller and ran away in Udupi.

The incident took place at around 5:30 am near Beedinagudde junction when jeweller Vijay was carrying the gold for lapidary work from his house at Bannanje to his store at Sri Laxmi Towar in Beedinagudde. 

They bumped into him when he going to the second floor of the Sri Laxmi Towar.

According to him, the miscreants who were wearing helmets threatened him with a knife then robbed jewelleries worth around Rs 50 lakh.

While decamping, the robbers also snatched his mobile phone and threw down from building.

Udupi town police conducted the spot investigation and registered a case. Further investigations are on.

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