George Clooney, wife Amal donate $100,000 to migrant kids
Los Angeles , June 21: Hollywood actor George Clooney and his barrister-wife Amal Clooney are donating USD 100,000 to help migrant children, who were separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border.
"At some point in the future, our children will ask us: 'Is it true, did our country really take babies from their parents and put them in detention centres?' And when we answer yes, they'll ask us what we did about it. What we said. Where we stood. We can't change this administration's policy but we can help defend the victims of it," the Hollywood Reporter quoted the couple, as saying of their donation, in a statement.
The A-list couple welcomed their own twins Alexander and Ella in June 2017.
The statement added, "Today, the Clooney Foundation for Justice will donate $100,000 to the Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights."
Nearly 2,000 children were taken away from their parents in a six-week period in April and May under the new Trump administration policy, according to several media reports.
Mexico's foreign minister has called the US policy, "cruel and inhuman".
Meanwhile, United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order to "keep families together," reversing his administration's policy.
According to the report, the Young Center's executive director, Maria Woltjen, expressed her gratitude to the couple saying, "We are doing everything we can to advocate on behalf of the thousands of children who are separated and alone, and we are grateful for the generous support of George and Amal Clooney and the Clooney Foundation for Justice - it could not be more vital at this time."
On that note, in February, the celebrity power couple donated around USD 500,000 in the name of their eight-month-old twins, Ella and Alexander, to a march calling for stricter gun laws in the United States.
courtesy : aninews.in
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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.
