World Thalassemia Day: Blood disorder cannot be cured, and other myths busted
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World Thalassemia Day: Blood disorder cannot be cured, and other myths bustedBy Abhay Bhave, ET CONTRIBUTORS
Last Updated: May 08, 2021, 01:11 PM IST
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Thalassemia syndrome is an inherited blood disorder that causes the body to have less haemoglobin than normal. There are two types of thalassemia - Alpha and Beta - in which children inherited the condition from parents who carry the mutated thalassemia.
People with thalassemia trait have normal life expectancy. However, beta thalassemia major along with heart ailments can make the condition fatal before 30 years of age.
Obstructing oxygen tankers amounts to endangering human lives, says Delhi HC
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Last Updated: Apr 26, 2021, 08:33 PM IST
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The court was hearing various petitions by Maharaja Agrasen Hospital, Jaipur Golden Hospital, Batra Hospital, Shanti Mukund Hospital and Saroj Super Speciality Hospital here among others over shortage of oxygen for treating seriously-ill COVID patients.
A fresh plea has been seeking direction to control black marketing of COVID-19 medicines and to ensure their availability and procurement in a time bound and transparent manner. The high court said it will hear it on Tuesday.
Obstructing cryogenic tankers carrying medical oxygen for COVID-19 patients will tantamount to endangering human lives, the Delhi High Court said on Monday, pointing out that the Rajasthan government must honour the orders not to cause any hindrance in transportation of the gas to other states. Acting tough on black marketing in oxygen cylinders, reportedly being sol
Just bring us oxygen : North Delhi hospitals plead for help
As coronavirus infections surge, hospitals across the capital are struggling for want of adequate oxygen supply.
26 Apr, 2021
Private hospitals in North Delhi s Rohini are struggling to keep Covid patients alive due to the shortage of medical oxygen in the city. Some have asked relatives of the patients admitted there to arrange oxygen cylinders on their own, a few have reached out to the local administration for help. If you can help us, just bring oxygen for us, Dr Mayur Rathod, his voice trembling, pleaded. Heâs the nodal officer at Saroj Superspeciality Hospital in Rohini.
Delhi HC Says It Will Hang Anyone Obstructing Oxygen Supplies to Hospitals
The court was hearing a petition filed by various private hospitals of Delhi over escalating oxygen crisis.
The Delhi high court. Photo: PTI
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New Delhi: Taking a serious note of reports that oxygen tankers are being stopped from reaching Delhi, the Delhi high court on Saturday warned that it will “hang” any person who tries to obstruct oxygen supplies to hospitals.
“You [be] rest assured that we will hang that man. We will not spare anyone,” a bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli said during a special three-hour-long hearing on a holiday on the issue of escalating oxygen crisis in various hospitals in Delhi. The petition was moved by a group of private hospitals from the national capital amidst the shortage of oxygen supplies.