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- Pregnant women beaten, abused in Madhya Pradesh district
- In rare case, woman delivers after ovarian tumour surgery
- A 'memory lane' for body donors at Chandigarh institute
- 'Bombshell' explodes myths of female terrorist motivation
- Protecting the sustainability of UK wheat production
- Health of citizens is wealth of nation: Court
- The Catholic mission in the Inca Empire lacked responsible Church leadership
| Pregnant women beaten, abused in Madhya Pradesh district Posted: 22 Feb 2011 08:30 PM PST ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Bhopal, Feb 22 - Barwani district of Madhya Pradesh saw 26 maternal deaths in nine months of 2010. Not only were the pregnant women routinely turned away from community health centres of their villages, they were even beaten and abused by nurses and health staff of the district hospital, a report released here Tuesday said. Situated over 300 km from state capital Bhopal, Barwani hit the headlines recently for maternal deaths and the poor state of its healthcare system. Activists of local NGO Jagrit Adivasi Dalit Sangathan - were thrashed by the police when they demonstrated outside the collectorate office to highlight the issue. After a lot of protests, a team comprising Dr. Shubha Sri, a local obstetrician and gynaecologist, and health activists Sarojini N. and Renu Khanna visited the district Jan 21-22 and met the families of the victims in eight villages. They held a press conference here Tuesday, and spoke about the dire situation of maternal healthcare in Barwani. They gave the example of Balta Bai, 20, a resident of Ubadgad village of the district. On June 6 last year, she experienced sudden labour pains and was taken to the community health centre - of Pati block in a cloth sling by her family. However, no doctor was present as it was a Sunday. A nurse did her check-up and sent her to the district hospital in an ambulance. At the hospital, a nurse hit her for screaming in pain, and told her to go to either Indore or Ashagram -. The nurse even told Balta's father-in-law: 'Take her to Ashagram, otherwise we will lodge a complaint against you.' When Balta was finally taken to Ashagram, doctors declared that her child was dead and needed to be taken out immediately. The hospital charged Rs.10,000 for the operation and kept her hospitalised for eight days. The night she was discharged, she once again complained of pain on reaching home. Her family took her to the district hospital, where a nurse called her 'a whore', and... http://www.rxpgnews.com    |
| In rare case, woman delivers after ovarian tumour surgery Posted: 22 Feb 2011 02:14 PM PST ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Mumbai, Feb 22 - In what doctors call a first for India, a Mumbai-based woman who had undergone a critical laparoscopic ovarian tumour surgery delivered a healthy girl child and both the mother and daughter are doing fine, her doctor said here Tuesday. Akhtari Ansari, 25, underwent a laparoscopic ovarian tumour surgery in the Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital in September last year. She was five months pregnant then. 'Hers was the first ever case of its kind in India which has enabled us to save the life of the unborn child,' Niranjan Chavan, head of obstetrics and gynaecology at Sion Hospital here, told IANS. Ansari, through normal delivery Feb 13, gave birth to a girl who weighed 2.8 kg and is healthy. 'It is a matter of two-fold happiness that the girl child is healthy and safe, especially after her mother went through a complicated surgery in the third trimester of her pregnancy,' Chavan said. Lauding Chavan's efforts, Ansari thanked him and his team for saving her child and also putting her through minimal risk during her pregnancy. 'Chavan is a highly reliable doctor and I am glad he not only saved my baby, but also put me through the least possible pain,' Ansari said. 'Ten days after my girl is born, we are both healthy and safe and back home,' she added. Ansari had in August last year approached Chavan, complaining of severe abdominal pain. She was put through various tests and detailed investigations revealed a seven-month-old large and solid tumour in the left ovary. The patient was already in her fourth month of pregnancy. 'As the pregnancy would have developed, the huge tumour would have pressed the foetus and led to either a miscarriage or a stillborn delivery with the possibility of other health complications,' explained Chavan. Chavan and his team counselled the woman for removal of the tumour as it posed a risk to the pregnancy. The benign tumour extended four fingers above the umbilicus in the... http://www.rxpgnews.com   |
| A 'memory lane' for body donors at Chandigarh institute Posted: 22 Feb 2011 09:04 AM PST ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Chandigarh, Feb 22 - An Asian Games gold medallist, a leading Punjabi litterateur and a top ranking bureaucrat. These three personalities may not have had anything common in their entire life or even met each other, but in their death one thing has unified them - body donation. Asian gold medallist Ajmer Singh, Punjabi literature legend Santokh Singh Dhir and Haryana's first chief secretary Saroop Krishen are among the nearly 40 people who have donated their bodies to the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research - for research. The Department of Anatomy at PGIMER, to honour the memory of these donors, set up a 'memory lane' called 'Teachers Forever' as a tribute to these body donors. The lane is a corridor with photographs of the donors. 'These people are immortal. Many generations of students here will get the opportunity to acquire a practical understanding of the subject from their bodies,' Daisy Saini, head of the department of anatomy, told IANS here. Scarcity of bodies for medical research purposes has become a major concern at most of the medical institutes in the region. However, the team of doctors at PGIMER has not failed to recognize the remarkable contribution made by these people who donated their bodies to the hospital. Inaugurating the memory lane here Saturday, PGIMER dean Amod Gupta, said: 'In a country like ours where surgeons have been facing huge scarcity of organs for transplant, these legends have donated whole of their bodies. I salute them for their contribution towards society.' Saini said, 'Cadaver donation - is still a very rare practice in India as the families believe in cremating the body of the deceased in accordance with their religious rituals. 'We have observed that people who have crossed 60 years of age volunteer for cadaver donation. However, their families oppose it as they fear criticism from society. They need to understand that religion teaches us to serve others,' she... http://www.rxpgnews.com   |
| 'Bombshell' explodes myths of female terrorist motivation Posted: 22 Feb 2011 05:00 AM PST ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Often portrayed as pawns of male-dominated terrorist organizations, female terrorists are actually motivated by more complicated and diverse reasons, according to a Penn State researcher. It's true that some women are coerced, but the truth is that motivations vary from terrorist group to terrorist group, said Mia Bloom, fellow, International Center for the Study of Terrorism. For example, of the women in the provincial Irish Republican Army group that I talked to, not one was coerced; they were enthusiastic about their roles. Bloom, who examined female participation in the world's most recognized terrorist groups in her book, Bombshell: The Many Faces of Female Terrorists (Viking Canada 2011), said there are five main reasons why females resort to acts of terrorism and suicide bombings--revenge, redemption, relationship, respect and rape. Relationship, the third R, is particularly crucial in understanding how women are mobilized, Bloom writes. The best single predictor that a woman will engage in terrorist violence is her relationship with a known insurgent or jihadi. According to Bloom, leaders of terrorist groups encourage female participation in their organizations for several reasons. Women are more effective at attracting media attention. They are also held up as an example to goad males into joining with or increasing their participation in terrorist movements. Groups have found it very effective to use women as propaganda tools, especially to appeal to men, Bloom said. The message is if you don't step up, you're not a man. Bloom also said the level of participation in a terrorist group changes from culture to culture and from group to group. In some terrorist organizations, women assume leadership positions and take part in all aspects of operations. For example, Ah-lam al-Tamimi, a member of Hamas, planned one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in the history of Israel. Some terrorist groups go as far as addressing... http://www.rxpgnews.com   |
| Protecting the sustainability of UK wheat production Posted: 22 Feb 2011 05:00 AM PST ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Scientists at The University of Nottingham are to play a key role in a new seven million pound research programme to help maintain the world's production of wheat - by increasing the diversity of traits available in wheat via a comprehensive pre-breeding programme. It will be the first study of its kind in the UK for 20 years. At a time when the world is facing a growing global population and environmental change the project will be important to ensure the sustainability of wheat production in the UK and beyond. To meet this challenge the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) has brought together a consortium of the UK's leading scientists in wheat genetics and trait analysis to underpin and enhance wheat breeding activities here in the UK and internationally. The foundation of the programme is based upon three areas of research to generate new diverse genetic variation. Experts in the School of Biosciences will form part of this nationwide consortium involving the John Innes Centre, the University of Bristol, the National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) and Rothamsted Research. Wheat breeders in the UK and throughout the world are working on new varieties that can meet the challenges of food production in the 21stt century. However, due to modern breeding practises there is not sufficient genetic variation in modern wheat varieties to obtain the increases in yield required to meet demand, climate change or environmental requirements - such as heat and drought tolerance, water use efficiency and nutrient use efficiency. The introduction of new genetic variation into wheat, for breeders to exploit, is therefore of critical importance for global food production. Ian King, Professor of Cereal Genomics in the Department of Plant and Crop Sciences, said: The world's population is set to increase from seven to nine billion by 2040 to 2050 and it is predicted that we will have to produce 70 per cent... http://www.rxpgnews.com   |
| Health of citizens is wealth of nation: Court Posted: 21 Feb 2011 07:11 PM PST ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) New Delhi, Feb 21 - 'The health of the citizens is the wealth of the nation' and it cannot be allowed to be jeopardized, the Delhi High Court said Monday while slamming an anti-quota stir at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences - in 2006. The division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna said: 'The doctors, residents, interns, the para-medical staff or any other person connected with AIIMS could not have gone on strike..., therefore, their said action is declared illegal.' The court was hearing a public interest litigation filed by the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Medical Association against the anti-quota strike in 2006. Concerned over the public interest involved in the issue, the court said: 'All concerned with the AIIMS must dedicate and devote themselves for its excellence keeping in mind that the health of the citizens is the wealth of the nation and the same cannot be allowed to be jeopardized.' The petitioner's counsel Prashant Bhushan earlier sought action against AIIMS management for allegedly supporting the strike and not taking action against agitating doctors. Bhushan argued that defying the Supreme Court ruling, the doctors had gone on strike repeatedly in July 2006 protesting the government's decision to reserve 27 percent seats in higher educational institutions for students of other backward classes. Seeking identification of the doctors who had struck work, the lawyer said the apex court, while dealing with a petition on AIIMS doctors strike in May 2006, had said the strike by doctors was illegal. The AIIMS counsel submitted that the then AIIMS director had not maintained any record about the striking doctors and many of them have already left the institute. Rapping the AIIMS, Chief Justice Misra said: 'The authorities of AIIMS cannot get away by taking a specious plea or a mercurial stand that though there was a strike, yet they are not aware who were actually... http://www.rxpgnews.com   |
| The Catholic mission in the Inca Empire lacked responsible Church leadership Posted: 21 Feb 2011 05:00 AM PST ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) The Catholic mission in the former Inca Empire lacked responsible and effective Church leadership. The image of the missionaries as having been principally responsible for the failure of the Catholic mission in Peru in the 16th and 17th centuries is incorrect. The Church leadership also bore a large part of the responsibility, a new thesis in history from the University of Gothenburg shows. The personal reputation and religious zeal of a few ecclesiastical leaders might have been excellent, but the ability of the leadership as a whole to lead the gigantic missionary project in the former Inca Empire proved inadequate. Researchers have traditionally depicted the mission in Peru as a matter between missionaries and the indigenous population. The priests in the field have generally been portrayed as being solely responsible for the mission's problems, while the indigenous population has been depicted as rather passive objects of the care and mission of the Spanish State. The role of the Church leadership has in general not been scrutinised. However, in my view the Church, i.e. its leaders, had a crucial bearing on the results of the mission, says the author of the thesis, Bertil K. Lundberg. It is easy to gain the impression that the Church was one with its representatives out in the field, in the active work of the mission. Christianising the indigenous inhabitants of Peru was the Church's project, and the Church as an institution decided on strategies, controlled economic and personal resources and consequently decided how the mission developed. The missionaries were the tools for the implementation of decisions taken by their bishops and prelates. While the missionaries' assignment was formulated and dictated by the Church, the same Church criticised its own missionaries when the poor performance of the missionary project was debated. The leadership simply distanced itself from the way the missionaries accomplished their... http://www.rxpgnews.com   |
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