Sand mafia: Lorry driver arrested for moving down village accountant
Raichur, December 23: Manvi police on Sunday arrested a lorry driver on charges of moving down a village accountant for stopping the lorry carrying sand illegally.
The arrested has been identified as Rangappa. On Saturday, village accountant Saheb Patel (45) was killed after moving him down.
After registering the case, police have intensified the operation. Based on the Complaint registered by Irfan Ali against the driver of the lorry belonging to Sharanaiah Gouda, police have arrested the accused.
About incident
It is said every day, hundreds of loads of sand was being transported to Hyderabad and Bangalore by lifting the sand from Tunga bhadra river bed at Cheekalaparvi village in Manvi taluk in Raichur district. In Saturday, when Village accountant Saheb Patel stopped the lorry carrying sand near Buddinni in the taluk to check it, the lorry driver moved him down and killed, it is said.
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Substandard ringer lactate solution might be behind maternal deaths in Ballari: K'taka govt
Bengaluru (PTI): Karnataka Health Department on Friday said the recent maternal deaths in Ballari are suspected to be due to the use of substandard ringer lactate solution that is administered intravenously to restore hydration and fluid balance in the body.
According to a statement, the solution was supplied by Paschim Banga Pharmaceutical Ltd to Karnataka State Medical Supplies Corporation Ltd.
The health department's officials said a sudden spurt in maternal deaths was reported from the Ballari district hospital between November 9 and 11. The deaths were reported to have occurred following caesarean operations at the hospital.
Of the 34 caesarean operations performed in those three days, seven cases developed complications.
In a statement, the health department said that out of the seven patients who developed complications such as acute kidney injury requiring haemodialysis and multi-organ dysfunction, four died.
Two have been discharged from the hospital and one patient is recovering at Vijayanagar Institute of Medical Sciences (VIMS), Ballari, it stated.
"There was a confidential review of the maternal deaths conducted by a team of specialists doctors constituted by the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences at the behest of the principal secretary of health and Family Welfare.
"On perusal of the report, it is evident that there has been no negligence or dereliction of duty by the team at District Hospital, Ballari," the statement said.
Citing the report, the officials said necessary protocols and guidelines for patient care, caesarean section procedure, recognition of complications and management were satisfactorily performed.
Despite the best team effort at the post-operative ward, ICU and dialysis unit of the District Hospital and VIMS Ballari, four patients could not be saved, they said.
"The onset of complications following caesarean operations is being suspected to the ringer lactate solution supplied by Paschim Banga Pharmaceutical Ltd to Karnataka State Medical Supplies Corporation Ltd (KSMSCL). Earlier, all 192 batches supplied by the said company were temporarily frozen by KSMSCL, even though two batches were declared not of standard quality on March 18, 2024, by the Drugs Control Department," a statement said.
"Later, following the certificate of standard quality by Central Drug Laboratories, the usage of ringer lactate of 84 batches was permitted by
KSMSCL on August 13, 2024," it said.
The statement added that currently, the ringer lactate solution batch has been withdrawn across the State and the fluids supplied to the Ballari district hospital have been sent for testing.
