Articles by Gaurav Saigal
Health risk @ 8 quacks a day
THE HEALTH Department official survey reported just 224 quacks in the city back in 2004. But, now their number has increased to at least 6000. Well, that means Lucknow approximately gets eight quacks every day. By, the time the Health Department wakes up to curb quack population, the city would have more quackery to deal with. The Health Department had lodged FIRs against 66 out of 224 in 2004. But, after sometime health sleuths? drive lost the sting. The statewide survey by the health department identified 27,252 quacks working in UP but action was mooted only against 1993.
Published on Apr 14, 2006 12:18 AM IST
None | Gaurav Saigal
?Drop-In Centres? waiting for funds
THE FATE of three ?Drop-In Centres? run by the people living with HIV and AIDS hangs in balance due to fund crunch. These centres were opened in February in Allahabd, Kanpur and Maharajganj.
Published on Apr 10, 2006 12:55 AM IST
None | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow
Prove-?em-mad, a deeper racket!
PSYCHIATRISTS PLAYING foul to mint money and help customers get legal hold over property by proving the owner insane, is just a tip of the iceberg. There could be many angles to the crazy story, which smells of a deeper nexus than what Wasiha-Amrina case throws up.
Published on Apr 10, 2006 12:09 AM IST
None | Gaurav Saigal
Make no bones about it!
HOW MANY bones does your body have? If you say ?205?, you are one short of the magic figure of 206, considered standard for most adults. As for the missing bone, you can blame it on the ?Craniovertebral Junction Anomaly.? It is a rare congenital deformity among humans who live absolutely normal lives, even though the first bone in their vertebrae is absent. They rarely come to know about the missing bone.
Published on Apr 07, 2006 01:04 AM IST
None | Gaurav Saigal
Hope for the terminally ill
THERE?S HOPE now for terminally ill children. The KGMU is going to gift them Stem Cell Banking (SCB) this Diwali, the first of its kind in the public sector, in the state.
Published on Apr 06, 2006 12:16 AM IST
None | Gaurav Saigal
Poor contraceptive supply hits FP
IF FIGURES were facts, the family planning programme in the State would be going nowhere. Though, the State received a record number of condoms and Copper-Ts, it failed to distribute them timely, affecting the family-planing programme.
Published on Mar 24, 2006 01:13 AM IST
None | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow
Female sex ratio declining
THE DIFFERENCE of population data of past two censuses tells us, Lucknow?s population grew by 9,47,797. Male population grew by 4,80,785 and female by 4,66,832.
Published on Mar 08, 2006 12:41 AM IST
None | Gaurav Saigal
Blood transfusion unrecorded!
IT?S HARD to believe. ?Blood transfusion? in the city hospitals goes unrecorded. Visit blood bank of any government hospital and one will find nothing is documented while blood transfusion is under process.
Published on Mar 08, 2006 12:41 AM IST
None | Gaurav Saigal
HAL-smoked citizens cry out
HEAVY SMOKE in Vishwas Khand area on Saturday night made residents gasp for breath and those with asthma had to leave their homes and rush to other places.
Published on Mar 05, 2006 01:39 AM IST
None | Gaurav Saigal/Anupam Srivastava, Lucknow
Bird flu: No ducking this
WANT TO keep off chicken after the bird flu outbreak in Maharashtra? Wait till you hear about domestic ducks. They are silent reservoirs of a highly ?pathogenic? or lethal virus. Worse, they show no signs of illness themselves, but transmit the virus to other birds. All this puts a spanner in efforts to control any outbreak.
Published on Feb 21, 2006 01:08 AM IST
None | Gaurav Saigal
The Smile Train: Hope for kids with cleft lips
THE SMILE Train (TST) is set to embrace few more stations. The non-profit project aimed at providing free surgeries to children with cleft lips, wants to add more partners and develop specialty centres, in the country.
Published on Feb 16, 2006 01:22 AM IST
None | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow
Scientists develop carbon?s ?copy?
CARBON HAS deformed itself to extend life of metals. Sixth most common element in universe found in food, clothing and cosmetics is helping human being in its amorphous form.
Published on Feb 14, 2006 01:30 AM IST
None | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow
SGPGI plugs into satellite for GI Week
TO PROVIDE a better hospitality and share knowledge conveniently, the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences has decided to break the 15-year-old tradition.
Published on Feb 13, 2006 12:28 AM IST
None | Gaurav Saigal
Prick ?em out of their lethargy
GET READY for the ?mosquito menace? round the corner. In a few days from now, as summer sets in, mosquitoes will be ?arriving? in hordes. In fact, you may already be witnessing the signs of what is to come.
Published on Feb 12, 2006 12:44 AM IST
None | Gaurav Saigal
MU docs prove ?atithi devo bhav?
THAT?S COMBINING HOSPITALITY with hospital! This has happened never before in the history of KGMU. But, when it happened, it went unnoticed. KGMU doctors know how to promote medical tourism.
Published on Feb 09, 2006 12:18 AM IST
None | Gaurav Saigal
And now, anti-Munnabhai brigade
ENCOURAGED BY the stringent action taken by KGMU administration against Munnabhais, a self-styled Anti-Munnabhai Front (AMF) has come up to sneak upon more Munnabhais of the past years.
Published on Jan 31, 2006 12:56 AM IST
None | Gaurav Saigal
Students miss precious classes
KGMU UNDERGRADUATE students have lost seven precious days of studies. They need to complete their final exams before March 31 to sit in the PGME-2007 exams. ?Students need to take 800 hours of study in Anatomy in the first year and similarly 400 hours are to be spent attending lectures in Biochemistry and Physiology,? said a senior faculty member.
Published on Jan 20, 2006 01:05 AM IST
None | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow
SGPGI invites departed genius!
THE SANJAY Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences wants a dead genius to attend the Institute Body meeting scheduled on January 21. The invitee is Prof Balasubramaniam Ramamurthi, the first neurosurgeon of the country, who established neurosurgical unit back in 1950s. He was also the honorary surgeon to the President of India and honorary consultant in neurosurgery to the Armed Forces of the country.
Published on Jan 14, 2006 12:27 AM IST
None | Gaurav Saigal
Beware! You may take winter to heart
WEAK HEARTS can barely fight cold, as a fresh chilly winter breath may really prove fatal to them! Senior cardiologist of King George?s Medical University Prof RK Saran says there is a close connection between cold and your heart?s health. ?It has been observed that more heart attacks occur during winter months and specially in the mornings. This is because clotting mechanism in the body goes up during winter,? says Dr Saran.
Published on Jan 10, 2006 12:33 AM IST
PTI | Gaurav Saigal
IDH is yet to get that ?freedom?!
FREE MEDICINES at KGMU?s Infectious Disease Hospital (IDH) would still take time to become a reality. This is because the grant that was to reach KGMU went to the Chief Medical Officer (CMO).
Published on Jan 09, 2006 01:08 AM IST
PTI | Gaurav Saigal
Forget filaria, it?s time to sleep
WHEN DOCTORS reached Harduiya village in Gangaganj development block at 9 pm, closed doors and reluctance greeted them. The place is just 30 km from the city. Though anxious eyes peeped out of windows, they were unwilling to leave cozy huts, even for their own benefit. Villagers preferred to sleep instead of participating in ?night blood sampling? to get their microfilaria level checked. The Health Department is conducting sampling of blood as part of Mass Drug Administration (MDA) programme against filaria, scheduled on January 8.
Published on Jan 09, 2006 12:49 AM IST
PTI | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow
Forget filaria, it?s time to sleep
WHEN DOCTORS reached Harduiya village in Gangaganj development block at 9 pm, closed doors and reluctance greeted them. The place is just 30 km from the city.
Published on Jan 08, 2006 12:57 AM IST
PTI | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow
Bones: Ayurveda has it!
AYURVEDA AND bones go together. This has been happening since ages and there is no ?bone? of contention among those practising or profiting from it. Animal bones, blood and flesh have been a part of Ayurveda therapy along with gold, silver, iron, zinc herbs and plant extracts.
Published on Jan 05, 2006 01:15 AM IST
PTI | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow
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