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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NATO, others turn down US call for help in Hormuz: Trump
Washington (PTI): President Donald Trump on Tuesday said NATO and most of US' other allies have rejected his calls to help secure the Strait of Hormuz as the war with Iran entered the third week.
In a social media post, Trump asserted that Iran’s military has been “decimated” and he no longer felt the need for assistance from NATO countries or anyone else.
Last week, Trump had sought help from European nations and others who depend on oil supplies transiting from the Hormuz Strait to safeguard the critical waterway.
“The United States has been informed by most of our NATO “Allies” that they don’t want to get involved with our Military Operation against the Terrorist Regime of Iran, in the Middle East, this, despite the fact that almost every Country strongly agreed with what we are doing, and that Iran cannot, in any way, shape, or form, be allowed to have a Nuclear Weapon,” the US President said in a post on Truth Social.
Iran's attacks on Gulf nations and its grip on the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world's oil is transported, have sparked increasing concerns of a global energy crisis and are unnerving the world economy.
“I am not surprised by their action, however, because I always considered NATO, where we spend Hundreds of Billions of Dollars per year protecting these same Countries, to be a one-way street — We will protect them, but they will do nothing for us, in particular, in a time of need,” Trump said.
He said Australia, Japan and South Korea too have turned down his call for help.
“Fortunately, we have decimated Iran’s Military – Their Navy is gone, their Air Force is gone, their Anti-Aircraft and Radar is gone and perhaps, most importantly, their Leaders, at virtually every level, are gone, never to threaten us, our Middle Eastern Allies, or the World, again,” Trump said.
He said that given the scale of recent military successes, the US no longer "need" or desires assistance from NATO countries, adding that it never relied on such support in the first place.
Speaking as President of the United States, the "most powerful" country in the world, "we do not need" help from anyone, Trump said.
The West Asia conflict began on February 28 when the US-Israeli combine conducted airstrikes on Iran.
The Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway that connects the Persian Gulf to the open ocean, has effectively been shut following the US and Israel attack on Iran and Tehran's sweeping retaliation.
However, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi had said that from Tehran's "perspective", the strait is "open". "It is only closed to Iran's enemies, to those who carried out unjust aggression against our country and to their allies.”
Earlier in the day, a second Indian-flagged LPG tanker, Nanda Devi, reached the country after safely sailing from the war-hit Strait of Hormuz. On Monday, the first ship, Shivalik, reached Mundra port in Gujarat.
As of now, 22 Indian vessels remain on the west side and two on the east side of the strait.
Indian authorities are in constant touch with all the relevant stakeholders in the region to secure the safe passage of the remaining ships, officials said.
