Kerala Guv, opposition leader praise doctors who performed life-saving procedure on road
Kochi (PTI): The recent brave act of three doctors, who performed an emergency procedure on the roadside at Udayamperoor to save the life of a critically injured man in an accident, won the praise of Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar and Leader of Opposition V D Satheesan on Tuesday.
In a statement issued by Lok Bhavan, the Governor praised the efforts of doctor couple- Thomas Peter and Didhiya K Thomas and B Manoop for their unique medical intervention which saved the life of Linu Dennis of Kollam.
The Governor personally spoke to the doctors and congratulated them, it said.
"Such humanitarian gesture embodies the highest marks of ethics in medical profession, which is to be emulated by all," the Governor said.
Arlekar also invited the doctors to Lok Bhavan, the statement added.
In a Facebook post, Satheesan also lavished praises on the doctor couple, belonging to Ernakulam Indira Gandhi Co-operative Hospital and Manoop, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Kottayam Medical College, for their gesture.
Satheesan said the doctors tried to save the life of the injured man in a cinematic manner.
"Saving a life... holding someone by the hand and bringing them back to life. That is an act bearing the imprint of God's own hand," he said in a FB post.
Detailing the incident, the LoP said the doctor couple were on their way to church when they noticed two people lying on the road, bleeding after a road accident at Udayamperoor. Dr Manoop also happened to be present at the spot at that time, he said. One of the injured persons was in a critical condition.
With no time to lose, the doctors carried out an emergency life-saving procedure on the spot, using the light from mobile phones, he further said in the FB post.
"Using the light from mobile phones, an emergency surgical procedure was performed right in the middle of the road. Local residents and the police extended assistance," he said.
Within four minutes, the doctors ensured that the person would survive, Satheesan said.
The Congress leader said he was amazed when he came to know about the incident, and so he called the doctors personally and conveyed his happiness and appreciation.
"They deserve every bit of praise. Dear ones, no amount of gratitude would ever be enough for you," Satheesan added in the social media post.
However, the injured man Linu Dennis, who had been under treatment at a private hospital here since Sunday night, succumbed to his wounds on Tuesday afternoon.
His body was shifted to the government general hospital here where the postmortem would be carried out on Wednesday, authorities said.
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Trump says he's inviting Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan to next year's G20 summit in Miami
West Palm Beach (AP): President Donald Trump said he will be extending invitations to next year's US-hosted Group of 20 summit to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan as the Republican administration looks to deepen its relationship with the Central Asian nations.
Trump announced the plan on Tuesday after holding separate phone calls with Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
Neither country is a member of the G20, but the host country of the annual leaders' gathering of major economies often invites non-members to attend the summit. The 2026 gathering is planned for Trump's golf club in Doral, Florida, near Miami.
“The relationship with both Countries is spectacular,” Trump said in a social media post about the calls. Trump is currently on vacation at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
The Kazakh and Uzbek leaders visited Washington last month along with the leaders of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan for talks with Trump.
The administration is giving greater attention to Central Asia, which holds deep reserves of minerals and produces roughly half the world's uranium, as it intensifies the hunt for rare earth metals needed for high-tech devices, including smartphones, electric vehicles and fighter jets.
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Central Asia's critical mineral exports have long tilted toward China and Russia.
During last month's visit, Tokayev announced that his Muslim-majority country will join the Abraham Accords, the Trump administration effort to strengthen ties between Israel and Arab and Muslim majority countries.
The largely symbolic move came as the administration is trying to revive an initiative that was the signature foreign policy achievement of Trump's first term, when his administration forged diplomatic and commercial ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco.
Trump last month announced that he is barring South Africa from participating in next year's summit at his Miami-area club and will stop all payments and subsidies to the country over its treatment of a US government representative at this year's meeting.
Trump chose not to have an American government delegation attend this year's summit hosted by South Africa, saying he did so because its white Afrikaners were being violently persecuted. It is a claim that South Africa, which was mired for decades in racial apartheid, has rejected as baseless.
