Maternal deaths: CM Siddaramaiah announces Rs five lakh ex gradia to victim families
Ballari (PTI): Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Sunday announced Rs five lakh compensation to next of the kin of women who died following child birth complications in Ballari Medical College and Research Centre.
At least five maternal deaths have been reported in the past one month in the BMCRC.
Taking a serious view of it, the CM ordered suspension of the Karnataka Drug Controller Umesh S.
It has also decided to prosecute the West Bengal based firm which is accused of supplying substandard Ringer’s lactate.
Ringer Lactate solution is administered intravenously to restore hydration and fluid balance in the body.
“Five women have died in Ballari Hospital. I conducted a meeting and it appears that substandard medicines were given. I had announced an ex gratia of Rs two lakh but the relatives are asking for more. So I announce giving Rs five lakh to them,” Siddaramaiah said at the ‘Jana Kalyana Samavesha’ (Public Welfare Convention) at Sandur in Ballari district.
The event was a thanks giving ceremony for the people of Sandur for electing the Congress candidate Annapoorna Tukaram in the recent assembly bypolls.
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BJP's main agenda is to keep minorities in fear, alleges Stalin
Chennai (PTI): DMK President M K Stalin has alleged that the BJP's main agenda is to keep the minorities in fear, and everyone is aware of what is happening in the states governed by the saffron party.
Stalin further alleged that Muslims continued to be subjected to attacks.
"Now, a situation has arisen where even Christmas could not be celebrated peacefully. Christians are being targeted. The entire country is a witness to what is happening in Manipur. The BJP's plan of action is that a state of insecurity for minorities should spread like a wildfire across the country," he told PTI in an interview.
That was why it first enacted the CAA, and the next was an amendment to the Waqf law, and now it is "desperate" to amend the FCRA, he alleged, and lashed out at AIADMK chief Edappadi K Palaniswami.
"Palaniswami, who supports all these three amendments and has formed an alliance with the BJP, does not have any concern for the welfare of minorities. However, the DMK is always firm in its commitment to ensure that India must always be a secular state; that people belonging to all religions must be equally respected and that the Constitutional safeguards conferred on minorities must be upheld. If any of these is threatened, the DMK will be the first party to raise its voice against it," he said.
Denying that the BJP made the minorities feel insecure, BJP state vice president M Chakravarthy said the chief minister was making the allegation due to the "fear that the Christian and Dalit votes would go to Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam led by actor-politician Vijay."
He was depicting the BJP as a bogeyman in an attempt to create unnecessary apprehension among the minorities, the BJP leader told PTI.
On FCRA, Chakravarthy asked, "What's wrong with ensuring accountability in the use of funds?"
