Uttar Pradesh admits National Rural Health Mission Problems

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Uttar Pradesh admits National Rural Health Mission Problems Posted: 27 Apr 2011 09:41 PM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Admitting large-scale financial irregularities in the execution of National Rural Health Mission - schemes in Uttar Pradesh, the state government on Tuesday announced a system of multiple checks and balances to curb pilferage. 'We have decided to bring the entire NRHM operation under the scanner whereby every rupee spent is accounted for through a system of multiple checks and balances,' state Cabinet Secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh told a press conference here. He conceded that it was the rampant corruption at various levels in the execution of the Rs.3,000 crore NRHM schemes that led to the murder of two successive chief medical officers for family welfare in Lucknow. Vinod Kumar Arya was hot dead Oct 27, 2010, while B.P. Singh was killed April 2. The government was determined not only to bring all malpractices to an end but also to bring to book those who were guilty in the murder of B.P. Singh, the official said. He said: 'Under the new arrangement, we will have both internal and external audit of all expenses related to the NRHM funds across the state.' 'Just as Dr. Arya was killed shortly after he began to undertake inspections of community health centres and primary health centres in the rural areas, Dr. Singh too became the target when he started following the same course,' the cabinet secretary added. 'Significantly, both had detected large-scale financial irregularities, which included fake payments in the name of hiring of manpower and vehicles, supply of medicines and equipment,' the official said. Disclosing that the NRHM programme would henceforth be supervised by the chief secretary, he said the new checks and balances would ensure cleaner functioning and curb malpractices. Two men were arrested over the killing of Vinod Arya. The investigations into B.P. singh's murder had led to the arrest of two doctors and two junior officials of the CMO's office. However, the killers were still at large. http://www.rxpgnews.com

BIDMC's Peter Weller, M.D., receives NIH MERIT Award Posted: 27 Apr 2011 05:00 AM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) BOSTON -- Peter Weller, MD, Chief of both the Division of Allergy and Inflammation and the Division of Infectious Diseases at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), is the recipient of an NIH MERIT award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. A Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Weller received the award for his longstanding grant, Human Eosinophils: Mechanisms of Functioning. An acronym for the Method to Extend Research in Time, MERIT Awards are intended to provide long-term research grant support to scientists who have demonstrated a stellar record of research accomplishment. Rather than being awarded through an application process, MERIT awards are given at the discretion of the NIH, with fewer than five percent of investigators selected as MERIT recipients. This is particularly rewarding because this was the first grant my laboratory received when I joined the former Beth Israel Hospital 27 years ago, says Weller. Over nearly three decades, our studies and those of others have peeled away the onion skin surrounding eosinophils to show that they are not so simple as once thought. This MERIT award will assure the funding to continue this work. Eosinophils are one of five major types of white blood cells. Eosinophils serve roles in the body's immune system, but the functions of eosinophils are still poorly understood. Higher-than-normal levels of eosinophils ecome problematic, explains Weller. This can occur when too many of the cells are recruited to a disease site or when the bone marrow overproduces eosinophils. Parasitic diseases, asthma and allergic reactions are among the more common causes of eosinophilia, the term used to describe high levels of eosinophils. Weller's laboratory, in collaboration with the laboratory of Ann Dvorak, MD, a scientist in BIDMC's Department of Pathology, has greatly expanded the understanding of these white blood cells. In particular, their... http://www.rxpgnews.com

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