Diwali festival: Minto hospital prepares to ensure 24x7 emergency treatment
Bengaluru, October 27: As the Diwali festival is fast approaching, the Minto hospital is preparing to ensure 24x7 emergency treatment for the victims who suffer injuries in cracker burst, with a slogan that ‘Precaution Is Better than the Cure’.
Speaking to reporters here on Saturday, Minto Hospital director Dr. Sujatha Rathod said that during every Diwali festival, hundreds of persons including children lose their eye sights while bursting crackers. They have also been treating many patients. In view of this, all doctors and non-medical staff of the hospital would work round-the-clock to treat the injured, she said.
The hospital has kept all medicines and other required materials ready and kept two separate male and female wards. If any untoward incidents happened while bursting crackers, people could give a call to- 080 26707176 or 9481740137 and get information, she said.
The bursting of crackers would not only damage the eyes and skin, but also ears. The chemical smoke emanating from the crackers would cause Asthma among many irrespective of age group. This would also affect the birds and animals. The celebration of festival of lights should be healthy and environment-friendly. Awareness programmes should be conducted in schools and colleges to sensitise the students, she added.
The methods of bursting crackers should be changed. In the last four years, more than 20 per cent people have lost their eye sights and 38 per cent were injured. Around 40 per cent of children below 14 years of age would admit to the hospitals. In 2017, total 45 incidents were reported. Every year, boys between 10 and 14 years of age were being affected from crackers, she said.
Precautionary measures
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When eyes are damaged, visit the doctors immediately.
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Children should burst crackers under the supervision of elders.
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Low decibel crackers should be burst in open space.
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Wear helmets or eye glasses or other safety measures.
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Don’t rub the eyes when get damaged or don’t wash in water.
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No self medication.
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Use insensticks to light the crackers.
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Don’t reuse crackers.
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Don’t keep crackers near fire.
Wisdom School student Inchara who won in a essay competition on ‘Safe Diwali’ organized by the Minto Hospital for the school children was felicitated on the occasion.
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Gurugram Police arrest BJP Yuva Morcha member for spreading fake murder story on social media
New Delhi: Gurugram Police have arrested BJP Yuva Morcha member Hariom Mishra, for allegedly spreading a fabricated and communally sensitive story on social media about the murder of a college student in Gurugram.
Mishra who is also known as Shaurya Mishra had shared a collage of four photographs on his X handle earlier this month. He claimed that a 24-year-old college student, identified as Nikita Agarwal, had been murdered by her classmate Arif Khan in Gurugram. In the post, he alleged that the woman was blackmailed, forced into prostitution, gangraped, and eventually killed. He also claimed that Arif dumped her body in a forest. The claims were presented as being based on police sources.
The post went viral and garnering over 1.5 lakh views, and was amplified by several right-wing social media handles across X, Facebook and Instagram. A verification of the claims revealed that no such incident had taken place in Gurugram. A search of credible news reports showed no record of any such murder. The police said this news would have inevitably attracted media attention if it were true.
On December 11, Gurugram Police publicly refuted the claims through their official X handle. They stated that the information which was being circulated was completely false. The police warned that legal action would be taken against those spreading misinformation. Despite the warning, Mishra neither deleted the post nor issued any clarification.
Police in Gurugram confirmed Mishra's arrest on December 16. The police said a FIR was filed after he continued to spread false information about the alleged murder of a Hindu woman by Muslim man. Police said Mishra, a resident of Uttar Pradesh's Kaushambi district, is now being investigated.
Gurugram Police spokesperson Sandeep Singh told The Print that the accused had deliberately misrepresented facts and used objectionable content to spread hatred along religious lines. “Such posts can create serious disturbances in society, and the police take these matters very seriously,” he said.
A reverse image search conducted by fact-checkers at Alt News, revealed that the photographs used in the viral post were unrelated to the claims, while two of the images were traced to a Pinterest account belonging to influencer Maulik Chopra and another image was sourced from an Instagram post by influencer Shivam Thakur featuring a woman named Deepanshi Rawat. The fourth image was found on an unrelated Instagram page. The images depicted different individuals and had no connection to any crime.
Police said they are also investigating Mishra’s motive behind sharing the false and provocative content.
