MGM FLOODS
Regd. No. MH/MR/South-160/2012-14 RNI Regn. No. 43675/1985 MUMBAI TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013 32 PAGES `3 Website: www.afternoondc.in
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By Shwetha Kannan
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wo days of heavy rains brought activities at Mahatma Gandhi Memorial (MGM) Hospital in Parel to a halt on June 17. More than hundred patients were evacuated from the hospital as there was no electricity, no food and most importantly, there was danger to their lives. Speaking about the situation, Dr. Nimish Shah, Medical Superintendent of MGM Hospital, said, “Since the nightof Sunday, June 16, there had been
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water logging in the hospital premises. There were tients to the ESIC-run hospital at Worli because he had leakages in the wards, the intensive care unit and the already anticipated an impending monsoon disaster. operation theatre. When water entered the electric “The construction that has been going on for the meter room, the BEST was contacted. The BEST staff last three years has played havoc with the drainage said that this was a fire hazard situation and removed system of the hospital. The drainage lines are choked the fuses, leading to power cut in the hospital. Equip- with debris. Many portions of the hospital are open ments like the X-ray machines are submerged under and unsafe. Last year too, we faced a similar situation. water. The kitchen too isn’t functional. Under such cir- I hoped that this year, with some progress in the concumstances, it would have been risky for us to con- struction, we wouldn’t have troubles, but when I saw tinue keeping patients in the hospital.” Continued on pg 8 « As a matter of fact, Dr. Shah was about to shift pa-
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he hopes of 6 lakh candidates across the state, who had given the State Eligibility Test (SET) on February 17 this year, have been crushed as the University Grants Commissions (UGC) is yet to declare their results. The academic year in colleges has already begun, and Continued on pg 8 «
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lmost a week after the Bandra Magistrate’s court cancelled the warrant issued against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray in a case registered against him for violence during the 2008 Railway Recruitment Board examinations, the Bombay High Court on Monday issued a notice to Thackeray over a petition filed by an advocate, seeking contempt action against him for his comments against the judiciary last year. According to the petition filed by advocate Ejaz Naqvi, after being refused permission by the Bombay High Court in February 2012 to conduct a po-
It will be recalled that the Bombay High Court had rejected the petition for permission, on the ground that the venue fell under the silence zone. “The aforesaid remark scandalised the High Court and tends to lower its authority and dignity. The remark cast an unwarranted aspersion of partiality against the Bombay High Court,” the petition said. After hearing the petition, the division bench comprising of Justice P. V. Hardas and Justice Mridula Bhatkar issued notices to Raj Thackeray and other respondents and dilitical rally at Shivaji Park, Raj rected them to file an affidavit had called the decision as ‘par- in the matter within four tisan.’ weeks.
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