Luxury buses entry into Mangaluru city restricted: Commissioner Suresh
Phone-in programme
Mangaluru: The hours-together parking of luxury buses at various places in the city is causing trouble for pedestrians, public and other vehicles. Following this, Mangaluru city police commissioner TR Suresh has instructed that the luxury buses should not enter the city from 8 am to 8 pm.
He was speaking at a phone-in programme held at Commissioner office to listen to public grievances.
One can find several luxury buses parked for hours-together near Milagris. Due to this, city/service buses do not get the proper place to park, following which they are forced to stop between the roads. Based on the complaint that pedestrians, public and other vehicles facing the problem; the commissioner took this decision. If the luxury buses prevented access to the city during the daytime, then this problem will not arise. Following which, the commissioner directed the traffic police officers to take the action.
It was the 93rd police phone-in program that received a total of 20 calls.
DCP (L&O) Hanumantharaya, DCP (C&T) Uma Prashanth, ACP Traffic Manjunath Shetty, Canara Bus Owners' Association President Rajavarma Ballal, D.K District Bus Owner's Association President Dilraj Alva, Inspector Amanullah A., H. Shivaprakash, PSI Kamala, P.Yogeshwar, Head Constable Purushotham were present.
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'Low-quality' catheters supplied to West Bengal govt hospitals at high price, probe ordered
Kolkata (PTI): The West Bengal health department has launched a probe into the supplies of allegedly low-quality and locally made catheters at a high price to several government hospitals, posing a risk to the lives of patients undergoing treatment in these facilities, officials said.
Such central venous catheters (CVCs) were allegedly supplied to at least five medical colleges and hospitals in the state, defying allocation of international standard-compliant CVCs, they said.
The distribution company, which has been accused of supplying these catheters to government hospitals, admitted to the fault but placed the blame on its employees.
"We started checking stocks some time back and found these locally made CVCs in my hospital store. These catheters are of low quality as compared to those allocated by the state. We have informed the state health department," a senior official of the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital told PTI.
Low-quality catheters were also found in the stores of other hospitals, which indicates "possible involvement of insiders in the scam", a health department official said.
The low-quality CVCs were supplied by a distributor in the Hatibagan area in the northern part of Kolkata for the last three to four months, he said.
"Such kinds of local CVCs are priced around Rs 1,500 but the distributor took Rs 4,177 for each device," the official said.
A CVC is a thin and flexible tube that is inserted into a vein to allow for the administration of fluids, blood, and other treatment. It's also clinically called a central line catheter.
"An initial probe revealed that the distribution company Prakash Surgical had supplied the low-quality and locally manufactured catheters to several government hospitals instead of the CVCs of the government-designated international company.
"All the units will be tested and a proper investigation is on to find out who benefited from these supplies," the health department official said.
The distribution company blamed its employees for the supply of inferior quality catheters.
"I was sick for a few months. Some employees of the organisation made this mistake. We are taking back all those units that have gone to the hospitals. It's all about misunderstanding," an official of the distribution company told PTI.
According to another state health department official, a complaint was lodged with the police in this connection.
Asked about how many patients were affected by the usage of such low-quality CVCs, the official said, "The probe would also try to find that out".
According to sources in the health department, some of the staff of the hospitals' equipment receiving departments and some local officials of international organisations might be involved in the alleged irregularities.
