Workers clean drainage with bare hand: Allegation
Inhuman act caught at BBMP premise?
Bengaluru,Oct.12: Even after Supreme court's ban on manual scavenging, the practice is still rampant in many parts of the country. But the BBMP which is boasting of adopting strict rules against manual scavenging remained a mute spectator on Friday evening as two workers were seen cleaning the drainage with bare hands.
The officers of BBMP and water authority say that they have created awareness among the safai workers about the manual scavenging.But on Friday workers were seen cleaning the sewage at BBMP premise where thousands of people, officers and representatives commute everyday.
The contractors have not given any equipments to these workers and were left to clean the sewage bare handed.
Ban on Manual scavenging and rehabilitation committee member C.N Anand has filed a case against the ill act at Safai Karmachari commission and urged the authority to take strict action against the guilty officers.
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Daycare chemotherapy centres to be set up in district hospitals, announces Dr. Sharanaparakash Patil
Belagavi: Medical Education Minister Dr. Sharanaparakash Rudrappa Patil on Tuesday said the State government plans to establish day-care chemotherapy centres in all district hospitals across Karnataka to make cancer treatment more accessible.
Replying to a question raised by BJP MLC M.P. Kushalappa during the Question Hour in the Legislative Council, the minister said it was not feasible for cancer patients from various districts to travel repeatedly to Kidwai Memorial Institute in Bengaluru. To address this issue, the government is taking steps to establish cancer care centers in other districts in collaboration with the Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology.
Providing details of cancer treatment at Kidwai, Dr. Patil said that over the past three years, 41,512 cancer patients have received treatment at the institute. Treatment included surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, or a combination of these, depending on the type and stage of cancer.
Between 2022 and 2024, a total of 12,781 patients underwent surgery, 14,423 patients received radiation therapy, and over 28,370 patients were administered chemotherapy, he said.
The minister further noted that more than 110 patients were provided bone marrow transplants, an otherwise expensive procedure, free of cost at the institute during the same period.
The proposed day-care chemotherapy centers, he said, would significantly reduce the burden on patients and improve access to timely cancer treatment at the district level.
