MCI under fire for not having anti-ragging cells
A
Supreme Court-appointed committee has pulled up the Medical Council of India
(MCI) for not taking adequate measures to check incidents of ragging in medical
colleges.
At
its 17th meeting here recently, the anti-ragging monitoring committee noted
that the medical colleges were the “hot-beds” for ragging of students in the
country but the MCI was yet to set up an anti-ragging cell for receiving
complaints from the students and facilitating their prompt redressal, official
sources told Deccan Herald.
The committee, headed by former chief of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) R K Raghavan, asked the MCI to set up a dedicated anti-ragging cell to deal with complaint of students even as the council insisted that all grievances of students were being taken care of through a grievance redressal cell. The monitoring committee rejected the council’s counter argument over setting up of a dedicated unit to deal with the cases of ragging, noting that there was a huge difference between an anti-ragging cell and a grievance redressal cell.
It took note of reports of a large number of cases of ragging in various medical colleges including the one case of “mass ragging” of students at Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) in Ranchi of Jharkhand in January this year, saying “no concrete action” had been taken by the council in these cases including those reported in the past. “Medical colleges are hot-beds for ragging and the MCI has to set a good example by preventing ragging,” Raghavan told the representatives of the council who attended the meeting.
Though the incidents of ragging have significantly declined over the years, the menace continues to exist in country’s higher educational institutions, particularly in medical and engineering colleges.
As many as 42 cases of ragging were reported from various medical colleges from July to December in 2014 while the 2015 has witnessed 25 such complaints till June so far. One of the worst incidents of ragging was reported from the RIMS, Ranchi in January this year.
Source: www.deccanherald.com
31.07.2015
'Fatty livers' bring down liver transplants by 25-30 percent: Govt
New Delhi: Nearly
30 per cent of all liver for transplantation is rejected because the donors
have 'fatty livers', a disease which is likely to increase in future, the
government today said.
Minister of State for Health Shripad Naik said that the prevalence of
non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is considered to be a known cause of
rejection for liver transplantation because of accumulation of fat in the
liver.
"As
per information received from Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS),
New Delhi, about 25-30 per cent of liver from live donors are rejected as a
result of fatty liver.
"ILBS
has also conveyed that from International studies, it is reported that of all
the livers rejected from cadaver (brain dead) donors, 25-30 per cent were due
to fatty liver," Naik said.
Fatty
liver, or steatosis, is a broad term that describes the buildup of fats in the
liver.
Most
of the liver transplants in the country are living related where portion of
liver used as a new graft is from a live person. The poor quality of liver to
be used for transplant can lead to poor regeneration with an increased risk of
adverse transplant outcome, the minister said.
"It
is also believed that with the increase in obesity, diabetes and metabolic risk
factors, the prevalence of NAFLD is likely to increase which can further add to
increase in rejection rate of organs from live donors," Naik said.
He
said that liver transplants in India have been increasing over the last few
years, and an estimated 1,400 liver transplants were done in the country last
year.
"However,
the number of patients requiring liver transplant in the country is believed to
be much higher," he added.
Source: www.zeenews.india.com
31.07.2015
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to shine like a sun first burn like a sun
A.P.J.Kalam
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