AJ Hospital to hold cancer screening camp from Feb 4-9
Mangaluru, Jan 31: On account of World Cancer Day (4th February), the AJ Hospital is organizing a cancer screening camp on its premises from Monday, February 4 to 9.
Dr. Prashanth Marla, Medical Director & Transplant Surgeon at AJ HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CENTRE, in a release, said "people are suffering from lump in the breast or mass in the abdomen, post-menopausal bleeding, and white discharge, recurrent cough, hoarseness of voice, difficulty in swallowing, Ulcer/growth in cheek/tongue or swelling in the neck can take benefit of this opportunity."
He further said the people who have complaints of indigestion, altered bowel habits, loss of appetite and rapid loss of weight, bleeding/mass per rectum, severe anemia, recurrent infection, bone pain, bleeding tendencies; could visit the hospital during the above said period.
"AJ Hospital has state of the art, Comprehensive Cancer Care Centre with all the specialties such as Medical Oncology, Radiation Oncology, Surgical Oncology, Cancer Pain Management, Nuclear Medicine including PET-CT, which is first of its kind in the entire district of Dakshina Kannada," he added.
The hospital will be offering free registration, consultation, head & neck and oral examination. Besides, the camp participants will be getting 25% discount on OP investigations and further treatment at a Concessional rate.
For further information, call on 0824-6613635 or email: ajccentre@gmail.com between 9.00am and 5.00pm.
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BMTC collects over Rs 19 lakh as fine from those travelling without tickets, occupying ladies seat
Bengaluru (PTI): The Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) has collected over Rs 19 lakh as a penalty from 10,069 passengers who were penalised for travelling without tickets and occupying seats exclusively reserved for ladies in the last three months, officials said on Thursday.
The checking staff of BMTC have intensified checking of buses operated in and around Bengaluru City to detect ticketless travelling by passengers, they said.
According to BMTC, during the months of August, September and October, the checking staff checked 57,219 trips and penalised 8,891 ticketless passengers by collecting Rs 17,96,030 as penalty and 5,268 cases were booked against conductors for their dereliction of duty.
During the same period, they have also penalised 1,178 male passengers for occupying seats exclusively reserved for lady passengers and imposed fines by collecting Rs 1,17,800 in accordance with the KMV (Karnataka Motor Vehicle) Rules of the MV Act of 1988.
"In total, during the months of August, September and October, 10,069 passengers were penalised and Rs 19,13,830 was collected," the BTMC officials stated.
