Issue 9

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Volume 16 Issue 9

An IIJNM Publication

THE WEEK THAT WAS Regional

Citizens form a Human Chain against steel flyover Around 500 Bengalureans from six-year-olds to senior citizens gathered together at 9 a.m. on Sunday to protest against the steel flyover. Citizens formed a human chain on one sidewalk of the stretch between Mekhri Circle and Bsaveshwar Circle. Source: The Hindu

National

India-Russia Sign Energy Deal India and Russia signed military and energy deals on Saturday at a summit meeting. The billion dollars deal is expected to comb these nations’ relations which has been tried by shifting global alliances and conflict in the Middle East Source: The New York Times

International

Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize for Literature Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature , becoming the first singer-songwriter to win the honour. The 75-year-old Dylan won for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition,” joins a long line of artists. Source: The Hindu

TEASERS Convictions crashing amidst high crime rates Srirampura, near Majestic railway station has surprisingly convicted merely19 people for 160 crimes reported so far in 2016. The ill will of witnesses and complainants while investigations are the main reasons, says Srirampura police inspector.

BBMP to direct eateries to install CCTVs in kitchens People in Bangalore will now be able to see what goes on behind closed doors in restaurants as BBMP is likely to issue orders to them for installing CCTV cameras in their kitchens.

Music seems to heal PD patients A fresh discovery by NIMHANS researchers finds that there exists a close connection between the cognitive processes of Parkinson’s disease patients and the perceiving elements of rhythm in music.

Men are more educated than women: Census Literacy rate among men continues to be higher than women in Karnataka. Various factors like mental pressure for getting married and no schooling are responsible.

Bengaluru FC enters AFC final Bengaluru Football Club gave an outstanding performance and won the semi-finals defeating Malaysian club Johor Darul Ta’zim by 3-1 in Sri Kanteerava Stadium on Wednesday. The game changed when the team scored two back to back goals.

THURSDAY 20 OCTOBER, 2016

Despite citizen’s protest, steel f lyover Women’s still on government’s top agenda doctors

ation, Vasant Nagar. “The least possible time for reaching was 17-minutes during non-peak hours and the maximum time taken was 31-minutes with maximum traffic.” After taking these calculations Bengaluru: Citizens Against Steel and speed limits into account, Flyover are conducting a door-toDugar said, “The maximum time door public opinion poll after the one could save was 8 to 10 minState Governutes.” ment decision “Even if on Monday to saving 10 go ahead with minutes the construcseemed feation of a consible, one troversial steel would have flyover, deto exceed spite mass the manprotests. dated speed “The Chief – 80 kilomeMinister is ters per hour [only] taking - to save that into consideramuch time, tion the opinincluding ions of 200 the time people who rewasted at sponded to the toll.” Bangalore DeC o n velopment Au- Naresh V Narasimhan, urban activist and TEDx speaker, Prakash cerned citithority’s call for Belawadi, media personality and other protesters at Mekhri Circle. zens this suggestions CASFo said it has conducted week launched a Facebook and Inrather than entire city’s opposition,” stagram campaign featuring supsaid Srinivas Alavilli, an anti-cor- “real-time” tests to calculate the porters taking multilingual videos of ruption activist and a member of the travel-time from the flyovers begin- themselves announcing their name newly-formed Citizens against Steel ning at Chalukya Circle to its desti- and noting, “I do not want the steel nation of Hebbal junction. The Flyover (CASFo). government-backed steel flyover of flyover.” The group campaign follows “Social media is an efficient protests last weekend that saw thou- Rs.1, 719 crores is expected to ease mode of communication today and sands of Bangaloreans form a 4- traffic and reduce travel time, offi- to include large numbers of youngkilometer human chain to protest cials have argued. sters,” said Ajay Alur, a resident of “We took around four trips durthe project. Sadashivnagar who is working on Dinesh Amin Mottu, media ad- ing peak hours and four during non- the campaign. viser to the chief minister of Kar- peak hours to calculate travel-time,” nataka, declined to comment on the said Rajkumar Dugar, general secCONTINUED ON PAGE 2 protest. “We are not against the gov- retary of Residents’ Welfare Associ-

Cherry Agarwal Aishwarya Iyer cherry.a@iijnm.org aishwarya.i@iijnm.org

ernment, we are against this solution,” said Subbaih TS of the Indian Institute of Architects, one of the Sunday morning protester. CASFo says it plans to continue its polling through Sunday and will organise a Rotary Club meeting with urban planners and experts Sunday, October 23.

No delivery in five years in BBMP maternity home: Medical Superintendent By Aarohi Pathak aarohi.p@iijnm.org

BENGALURU: Pobbathi maternity home, located near SajanRao circle,V.V.Puram, hasn’t conducted a single delivery in the past five years, the nurse at Pobbathi said. Jayanagar maternity home does not conduct more than ten ‘normal’ deliveries per month, Ms. Rashmi S., the Junior Health Assistant Female at the maternity home, stated. These BBMP maternity homes do not conduct a lot of deliveries due to lack of equipment and the fact that many people don’t know about them. According to the BBMP website, Jayanagar maternity home can conduct “normal deliveries and medical termination of pregnancy.” “We are not equipped to perform a ‘caesarian’ delivery”, said Ms. Rashmi. Dr. Chitra, Assistant Surgeon at Jayanagar maternity home, said “The mothers usually come here only for follow-ups and immunizations. We refer those cases to General hospital, Jayanagar which we are not able to handle.” Sayma, who visits Jayanagar maternity home thrice every month for her and her seven-month-old daughter’s check-up, said, “One of my relatives advised me to have my delivery at General Hospital, Jayanagar as those doctors can handle complications better.” This year, in September, Jayana-

gar maternity home conducted eight normal deliveries while General Hospital; Jayanagar conducted 307 deliveries which included both normal and caesarian cases, as told by Ms. Rashmi and Medical Records Officer at the hospital, respectively. As stated on BBMP’s website, Pobbathi is equipped to perform caesarian sections, gynecological surgery, tubectomy but still, Pobbathi doesn’t get many patients.

For a long time Pobbathi had a MBBS doctor instead of gynaecologist and he/she wasn’t qualified to perform deliveries

“It’s true that Pobbathi hasn’t conducted a single delivery since five years,” said, Dr. Shobha who is the medical superintendent at Banashankari Referral hospital. “I can’t comment on the reasons behind this issue because I have joined the office quite recently.” Government maternity homes are beneficial for women belonging to lower economic strata. “One of the reasons we don’t have a lot of

women here is because they don’t even know about these maternity homes,” said Ms. Rashmi. The National Urban and Rural Health Management scheme was launched by the Central government in April 2005 of which Accredited Social Health Activist workers (ASHA) form an important part. They spread awareness among the people in their community and bring them to government hospitals and maternity homes. “We have three ASHAs for a population of 4,500. They receive incentives for bringing in patients and other work, like Rs.100 or 200. They don’t wish to work just for incentives. They say that they ought to be given a proper salary,” said Ms. Rashmi. Dr. Shivakumar, ex-medical superintendent at Banashankari Referral Hospital, said, “For a long time Pobbathi had a MBBS doctor instead of a gynecologist and he/she wasn’t qualified to perform deliveries. Now, it has a gynecologist who visits on alternate days.” While explaining the reasons for no deliveries being conducted at Pobbathi, Dr. Shivakumar said, “Pobbathi is surrounded by big hospitals like Dassapa Referral Hospital and H. Siddaiah Road Referral Hospital. So, people prefer to go there. Besides, not a lot of people know about these maternity homes.”

in shortage Supriya Dedgaonkar supriya.d@iijnm.org BENGALURU: Nearly 62 per cent of government hospitals do not have a gynaecologist on duty and some 22 per cent of sub-centres are short of Auxiliary Nurse Midwives, reports a District Level Household Survey of September 2016. The lack of gynaecologists has put a strain on the already few doctors available at government hospitals. The district-level medical sub-centres serve as much as double the number of patients they can handle. Sixty-five per cent of hospitals serve more patients than the government standards require them to. Almost 80 per cent of all public hospitals serve twice the number of patients than the government standards specify, states the survey. India is the country with highest infant mortality rate among the BRICS nations – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, according to government data. According to statistical data provided by The World Factbook – Central Intelligence Agency, infant mortality rate in India for the year 2016 is 40.5 deaths per 1,000 live births. Some 27.5 male deaths occur per 1,000 live births compared to 34.2 female deaths per 1,000 live births. “India needs to do a better job of training its doctors, persuading them to serve in small towns and villages, and even convincing them to stay on in the profession,” stated a 2013 report commissioned by UNICEF India for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. CONTINUED ON PAGE 3

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