Fight for the Right to Health!
By IBNlive.com
New Delhi: After dominating the Indian psyche for over 30 years, the slogan Hum Do Hamare Dois finally going to fade out.
The Government on Tuesday approached the Supreme Court saying it didn’t want to penalise mothers who become pregnant with a third child.
Until now, the Government provided a one-time assistance of Rs 500 to expecting mothers who had conceived their first or second child. But now they want this two-children cap to be removed.
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By Ellen Catalinotto
Published Oct 4, 2007 1:14 AM
A vigil in memory of those who have died due to denial of health care was held on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at sunset on Sept. 28. Vigils were also held in Chicago, Kansas City, Mo., and Louisville, Ky.
SiCKO cast members carry health care WW photo: Deirdre Griswold |
Members of the cast of Michael Moore’s movie “SiCKO” organized the vigils as part of a campaign for universal, single-payer health care. Donna Smith opened the one in D.C., calling for just and compassionate health care for all as part of the vision of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who spoke from the same steps to denounce racism many years ago.
LIMA.— The work of Cuban doctors treating earthquake victims in Peru was highlighted Monday in the national media, two months after the tragedy that left almost 600 dead.
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The 77 doctors and other healthcare workers, who arrived in Pisco just days after the disaster, are working work in the Ernesto Che Guevara and Antonio Maceo field hospitals that they brought with them and have treated 61,000 patients to date.
According to members of the Cuban medical brigade, of this total 41.7% were treated at some distance from the hospital facilities, in field work that has extended into the interior of Pisco and Ica.
Mumbai/ Chennai, (Indian Express): With the arrest of a Chennai-based nephrologist, the Mumbai Police claimed to have unearthed a kidney transplant racket that lured poor people from across India and at least three other countries to donate their kidneys on the promise of large sums of money.
Apart from Dr Palani Ravichandran (42), who police say is the mastermind behind the racket, four of his accomplices have also been arrested. Dr Ravichandran was arrested in Chennai on Tuesday and brought to Mumbai, where a court remanded him to police custody for seven days.
“Dr Ravichandran had agents working for him in Mumbai, Gujarat, MP, Rajasthan, Delhi and other places in the country and also in Nepal, Sri Lanka and Myanmar. They lured poor, uneducated people to sell their kidneys for around Rs 3 to 4 lakh. However, once the kidneys were surgically removed, the accused would pay the donors only Rs 25,000 to 60,000 and also threatened them against lodging any complaint,” said Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Rakesh Maria. “Last year the accused sold kidneys of almost 100 people from Mumbai itself,” he said.
According to Maria, the donors were taken to two hospitals in Chennai — Bharathi Raja Hospital and New Bharathi Raja Hospital— where the kidneys were removed and transplanted.
