‘Right to Health Bill’ fumes docs, statewide one-day strike held

RURAL HEALTH STATISTICS ’20-’21

There is a big human resource problem at the public health centre (PHC), community health centre (CHC) and sub-centre level and long waiting time at the District Hospital level.

Shortage of 207 auxiliary nurse midwives in the sub-centres and PHCs in the state’s rural areas.

Shortage of 29 doctors at PHCs and 1,877 specialists (surgeons, obstetrician-gynecologists, physicians and paediatricians) at CHCs.

Some 1,526 posts of pharmacists are vacant, while there is a requirement of 622 more laboratory technicians at CHCs and PHCs in the state’s rural areas.

Jaipur (ANI): The opposition to State Government’s proposed

Right to Health Bill has intensified across the state as the Doctors took to the streets to protest against the proposed bill in Rajasthan on Saturday and declared a strike of one day. The medical and emergency operations are to be on hold for 24 hours starting at 8 AM on Saturday.

Taking to social media Indian Medical As-

New Delhi (ANI):

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested another accused from Rajasthan’s Jaipur in continuation with its operations against Popular Front of India (PFI) cadres involved in conspiracies to commit violent and unlawful acts, the agency said on Saturday.

The suspect, identified as Mohammad Sohail, was arrested from Jaipur on Friday during a search operation conducted by the NIA sleuths in close coordination with state police forces.

Sohail is accused of having been actively involved in PFI’s criminal conspiracy to disturb the peace and spread communal hatred and enmity, said the antiterror agency.

Leopard mauls toddler to death in Jaipur; mother chases wild cat for 1 km

Jaipur (FIB): A oneand-a-half-year-old boy has been killed by a leopard in the Jamwaramgarh area of Jaipur district, a forest official said on Saturday.

The animal grabbed the child in Basna village of Jamwaramgarh tehsil on Friday evening when he was playing outside his home, forest ranger Ramkaran Meena said.

To save the child, the mother ran after the leopard for nearly 1 km. As soon as she reached the forest, her son, Karthik was lying unconscious. later, the villagers also came and took the child to the hospital, where the toddler succumbed to his injuries. The wildcat was in search of food when it attacked the kid, he said. In the last four months, at least four times leopards have been sighted in the residential areas in Jaipur. Leopards were seen in Jaipur’s SEZ, Jaisinghpura Khor, Jhalana and Jamdoli areas.

JAIPUR MEDICAL ASSOCIATION’S CONTENTION z Obscurity on who will pay for emergency care at private hospitals, which may lead to delayed treatment z Repetition of provisions already made under the Medi- sociation tweeted on Saturday said that they have demanded some amendments in the Bill the IMA stands with members.

“Dr. Sharad Agarwal, N.P, IMA visited Kota cal Council of India and the National Medical Commission z Lack of a legal recourse if a patients’ family wants to approach the court about a medical procedure or treatment on 10th Feb and held a press conference on the issue of the proposed “Right to Health Bill” by Rajasthan Government. He demanded amendment in the said Bill. He reassured the

IMA members that the IMA stands with them, always.”

The protesting doctors, after the meeting with the Select Committee, said that the government is not ready to listen to them.

The doctors in the protest are determined that the government can bring the bill without them but they will not tolerate it.

Gehlot declared on Republic Day this year that the state government will bring the Right to Health Bill to the state.

“We have a public welfare government in Rajasthan. We will now be bringing the Right to Health Bill. The BJP is

First India Bureau Udaipur: The AntiCorruption Bureau (ACB) on Saturday produced the suspended DSP, Sub-Inspector and two other accused before the court in the land case. The court has sent all the accused to three-day police custody.

The ACB sleuths reached the magistrate’s house in the Pratap Nagar area along with the four accused and produced them before the court. The ACB team will now interrogate DSP Jitendra Anchalia, Sub-Inspector Roshan Lal and two middlemen wherein the accused allegedly took Rs. 1.80 crore as a bribe from an NRI in a land deal. The complainant also alleged that the land deal was forcibly done by reducing the fixed price of the land.

Accused DSP Anchalia produced before court.

The ACB officials have also called Dalpat Singh, the then SHO of Sukher, for questioning. Earlier, DSP Anchalia was suspended in the Kanhaiyalal murder case. Although, later he got a clean cheat.

First India Bureau Jaipur: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi praised the Rajasthan Government and termed the State budget ‘excellent’. He welcomed many schemes and announcements, including the Chiranjeevi scheme. He also cornered the Central Government regarding the budget of Rajasthan.

“There is nothing in the Central Budget. The issues of youth, farmers, women, employment, and inflation are missing,” he said. Comparing Rajasthan Budget with the Central Budget, Rahul Gandhi said that the Centre did not event mention the issue of inflation and unemployment in the Budget.