Oxygen generators to be installed at KMC Mangaluru, Kasthurba hospital Manipal
Mangaluru, May 24: Two onsite plant oxygen generators will be installed at Kasturba hospital, Manipal and KMC hospital at Attavar here in view of the urgent requirements due to the current COVID-19 pandemic wave.
A 1,500 LPM (litres per minute) onsite plant oxygen generator will be installed at Kasturba Hospital, Manipal and a 500 LPM plant at KMC Hospital here as a stand-by arrangement to cater to emergency situations.
The requirement at the two hospitals has been taken on priority as they are treating more Covid patients, a release from the Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) said.
Manipal Kasturba hospital medical superintendent Avinash Shetty said Due to the sudden spike in Covid cases, the daily consumption of liquid medical oxygen is 2,200 litres per day which otherwise is 1,600 litres per day.
According to KMC hospital medical superintendent John T Rampure, the daily consumption of liquid oxygen at the hospital has increased from 300 litres per day to 600 litres per day with the increase in Covid cases.
The total cost of the oxygen generator projects at the two hospitals is estimated at Rs 3.6 crore and the process will be completed within four to five months.
MAHE has taken the initiative in establishing its own oxygen generators for the hospitals to provide the best care during the pandemic, the release said.
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NEET aspirant from Haryana hangs self in Kota; parents suspect murder, demand fair probe
Kota (Rajasthan), Apr 29: A 20-year-old NEET aspirant was found hanging from the ceiling fan of his hostel room in Kunhari area here, with his parents suspecting he was murdered, police said on Monday.
This is the eighth case of suicide by a coaching student in Kota since January. The number of student suicides in Kota stood at 26 in 2023.
Sumit Panchal, who hailed from Haryana's Rohtak, had been preparing for NEET at a coaching institute here for over a year, the police said.
His parents have demanded the registration of a murder case against unidentified persons and an impartial investigation into the matter.
On demand of the student's parents, a medical board was constituted to perform the autopsy, said Assistant Sub-Inspector Kaptan, who is investigating the case.
The body was handed over to the family after the post-mortem, they said.
The student had allegedly hanged himself around 9 hours before his body was spotted by the hostel staff, the ASI said.
Panchal's body was found hanging from the ceiling fan of his room at the hostel in Landmark City under the Kunhari police station limits on Sunday night, they said.
However, his parents suspected Panchal was murdered, citing that the injury on his neck from the rope was too deep to be caused by hanging, the police said.
A case of unnatural death under section 174 of the Criminal Procedure Code has been lodged for initial investigation in the matter, they said.
No suicide note was recovered from the student's hostel room and the reason behind his extreme step is yet to be ascertained, Arvind Bhardwaj, Circle Inspector (CI) at Kunhari police station, said on Monday.
Panchal was supposed to take the NEET-UG exam next month, the police said.
He allegedly hanged himself sometime on Sunday noon but the matter came to light only around 9.30 pm when the warden spotted the body and informed the police, the CI said.
A police team rushed to the spot and recovered the body and shifted it to the mortuary of MBS Hospital for postmortem, he added.
In gross violation of safety norms, the hostel room did not have an anti-suicide device installed with the ceiling fan, which could have averted the tragedy, the officer added.
Meanwhile, the deceased's father, uncle and grandfather who reached Kota on Monday morning to claim the body suspected foul play and claimed Panchal did not commit suicide but was murdered.
"Sumit was good at studies and would always assure us of securing a rank among the top ten. He cannot commit suicide," his uncle Surendra Panchal told PTI outside the mortuary.
The wound on his neck is so deep that it couldn't have been caused by hanging, he claimed and demanded autopsy by medical board.
The student's family has also demanded the formation of a SIT for investigation in the matter, CI Bhardwaj said.
