New Delhi (October 2006 )

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Plea for elimination of `destructive' emotions
http://www.hindu.com/2006/10/09/stories/2006100918650300.htm

TEACHINGS RELEVANT: Spiritual leader Dalai Lama addressing devotees at the international festival of Buddhist music and rituals to commemorate 2550th year of Mahaparinirvana of Sakyamuni Buddha at the Buddha Jayanti Park in New Delhi on Sunday. Pho to: R.V. Moorthy

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Exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama on Sunday appealed to the followers of Buddhism to eliminate their "destructive emotions" by practising the teachings of Buddha.


Addressing a three-day festival of Buddhist music and rituals here, he said the teachings of Buddha have a lot of relevance in the present time, when the level of violence in society has gone up significantly.


"There has been a lot of development in science and technology. At the same time, the level of violence has increased because the destructive emotions are very active among the people.



The teachings of Buddha have a lot of relevance now which can help to eliminate the destructive or negative emotions," he said. "Buddha means elimination of negatives.



It means all positives potentials should develop in life," he said.

The Dalai Lama favoured on implementing the teaching of Buddha in everyday life.


By leading "ethical" life, one can eliminate the negatives, he said.

He explained the stages and paths for achieving Buddhism.


"Correct livelihood and ethical life can help everybody to get rid of the destructive emotions," he felt.



The festival is being organised by Tibet House in association with Ministry of Culture to commemorate the 2550th year of Mahanirvana of Buddha. PTI

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Re: New Delhi (October 2006 )

Dengue toll 22, CM says worst over
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2122731.cms

NEW DELHI: Even as dengue claimed one more life in the Capital on Sunday evening, taking the toll to 22, chief minister Sheila Dik**** feels that the number of cases are decreasing "day by day". The statement came after she visited DDU Hospital in Hari Nagar, with senior health officials.

Dik**** said: "There is no cause for panic. There is enough blood and platelets to meet the demand and all Delhi government hospitals are well-equipped to deal with the disease. These hospitals are also catering to patients from the NCR region. The important thing is for the people to take precautions and prevent mosquito breeding."

Meanwhile, Navin Chand, a 23-year-old patient, who was admitted to AIIMS on October 5, died around 6.30 pm on Sunday. The institute has had 28 new dengue admissions since Saturday afternoon, of which three are from within the campus. Two MPs, Rajiv Ranjan and Virender Malik, were also admitted on Sunday and their condition is said to be stable.

The total number of cases reported to MCD is 886 with 61 more cases coming in the last 24 hours. Among these, 538 patients are from within Delhi. Even though as per MCD figures, the present dengue outbreak has come with a fatality rate of above 2.3% ? in 2003, the last outbreak year, the fatality rate was slightly above 1.5% ? physicians say the outbreak this time is less virulent. They cite under reporting of cases as the major reason for the apparent statistical fallacy in fatality rate.

According to Dr Anoop Misra, senior consultant, internal medicine, Fortis Hospitals: "Though as per MCD figures the fatality rate is higher, going by the cases we have seen so far, there would be 3,000-4,000 cases in the city and the fatality rate would be much lower. This year, there have been less number of patients than 2003, who have gone into dengue shock."
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Re: New Delhi (October 2006 )

Dengue under control: Dik****
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1816931,001302520000.htm

Amitabh Shukla

New Delhi, October 9, 2006

All thanks to The Hidustantimes to share Public Health Informations

<TR><TD class=sttxt valign="top" align="left">The Delhi government on Monday decided to drain artificial water bodies such as fountains immediately to stop the spread of dengue.

Health minister Yoganand Shastri took the decision following reports that the Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes might be breeding in such places.

"Fountains and other such water bodies would be closed only till the dengue threat persists," said Shastri after he chaired a meeting to review the dengue position in the Capital. The water in these fountains would be drained out to prevent mosquito breeding.

Chief Minister Sheila Dik****, meanwhile, claimed that the dengue outbreak was now "under control". Emerging from a Cabinet meeting on the disease, the Dik**** said there was no dearth of platelets in government hospitals.

The government has also decided to lend a helping hand to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi.

Shastri has instructed nine deputy commissioners, responsible for district administration, to monitor the dengue control programme on a priority basis.

The minister pledged all financial support to the MCD for the purchase of equipment like fogging machines to control the outbreak.

The state government also gave an area wise break-up of the dengue cases reported in different civic zones of the city. According to the figures, the Central Zone has reported the highest number of cases (110) followed by Najafgarh (72), Shahdara North (70), Shahdara South (46), Civil Lines (33), Rohini (36), City (6), Karol Bagh (48), West Zone (45), South Zone (37) and Narela (10). Health department officials said 23 cases have also been reported in NDMC areas also.

Interestingly, the government is yet to compile the figures of dengue patients admitted in private hospitals. "We would be able to get the figures soon as the primary focus of the department is treatment rather than compiling statistics," said an official who attended the meeting chaired by the health minister.

10 more cases in Ghaziabad
Assistant chief medical officer of Ghaziabad AK Dhawan said 10 confirmed dengue cases were reported on Monday, taking the total figure to 108 confirmed cases in the district. A private hospital has also reported suspected cases of chikungunya. Dr S Chakarvorty of Metro Hospital said, "Two suspected chikanguniya cases have been reported this week.
Though last week, a sample was sent to National Institute of Communicable Disease (NICD) but it could not be tested. Another suspected chikanguniya case has been reported on Monday. About 30 suspected dengue cases were reported today." ESI Hospital authorities said they had postponed surgeries to tackle the dengue outbreak.
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Re: New Delhi (October 2006 )

Vector Control Officers for all districts
http://www.hindu.com/2006/10/12/stories/2006101219700100.htm

NEW DELHI: The Centre has agreed to provide financial support to Kerala to appoint Vector Control Officers in each of the 14 districts of the State.

This was announced here on Wednesday by Kerala Health Minister P. K. Sreemathy after a meeting with Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss.

According to Ms. Sreemathy, the State Government would decide on the job profile of the Vector Control Officers and mandate the minimum qualifications. The Centre would foot their salary bill. Such a post in each district, she said, was being considered as vector control was the best way to deal with diseases such as chikungunya and dengue.

In the capital to attend the meeting of Health Ministers from chikungunya-affected States - convened by the Centre - Ms. Sreemathy sought to steer clear from all controversies that have arisen over whether the deaths in the State were caused by chikungunya.

Briefing mediapersons, she refused to field questions on whether the deaths were caused by chikungunya as has been claimed by Chief Minister V. S. Achuthanandan. Likewise, she refused to comment on Dr. Ramadoss' statement that chikungunya does not cause death.

Submits memorandum


At her meeting with Dr. Ramadoss, the Kerala Health Minister also submitted a memorandum listing the requirements of the State to deal with the public health situation.

Besides special central assistance to the tune of Rs.30 crore, the Kerala Government has sought a special allocation of Rs.5 crore for Alappuzha district which has reported the maximum number of deaths.

Also, Ms. Sreemathy said the Centre had agreed to give 25 test kits with a capacity to test 100 samples each to the State. Besides, an emergency package of Rs.2.2 crore had been sanctioned. Half the amount would be used for a public awareness campaign and the remaining portion for acquiring fogging machines and undertaking other vector control measures.

 

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Re: New Delhi (October 2006 )

Chikungunya cases confirmed in Delhi
http://www.hindu.com/2006/10/12/stories/2006101214740100.htm

Staff Reporter

39 new dengue cases admitted to AIIMS; total up to 1,101

# Union Health Minister Ramadoss visits AIIMS
# Hundreds screened for dengue

NEW DELHI: With dengue yet to loosen its grip on Delhi, the Capital now has another vector-borne disease to reckon with: chikungunya.

According to figures released by the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme on Wednesday, over 20 chikungunya cases have been confirmed in the city so far.

Meanwhile, the number of dengue cases continued to rise on Wednesday with 39 new ones admitted to the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here. With this, the total so far has shot up to 1,101. The disease has killed 23 people so far.

AIIMS spokesperson Shakti Gupta said: "Forty-two patients were discharged from the Institute, 170 dengue patients are currently under treatment in the hospital, and we have screened 945 patients for dengue."

To review the management of dengue patients and medical infrastructure at AIIMS, Union Health Minister and AIIMS president Anbumani Ramadoss visited the Institute on Wednesday morning. He went round the wards and enquired about the condition of medical students and resident doctors from AIIMS being treated for dengue. The Minister interacted with the AIIMS Director and senior faculty and enquired about the availability of blood and medicines. Dr. Ramadoss also enquired about the Institute's preparedness to manage chikungunya cases.

According to figures released by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, of the 1,101 cases registered in the Capital, 709 are from the city, while the remaining 392 are from other States. Also, 636 are from the MCD area and 25 from the NDMC (New Delhi Municipal Council) area.

The Song and Drama Division of the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has deployed its artistes and registered parties to hold a five-day "Public Awareness Programme" here on dengue and chikungunya.

The programme will focus on cleanliness, measures to stop mosquito breeding, protection from mosquito bites and medical consultation. The programme will be held in coordination with the Delhi Health Department from Wednesday to Sunday.

 

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Re: New Delhi (October 2006 )

Hospitals continue to be deluged with patients, toll 28
Tribune News Service
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20061015/delhi.htm#1
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New Delhi, October 14
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With 95 fresh cases of dengue reported from various areas of the Capital during the last 24 hours, the total number of patients rose to 1,373 today. The death toll climbed to 28 as the disease claimed one more life in the city.

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The latest victim of the mosquito-borne disease is 25-year-old Farhana, a resident of Hauz Rani, who succumbed to the viral disease at AIIMS today.


Various hospitals in the Capital continued to be deluged with the patients with dengue symptoms, a senior official of the MCD said.

The official said that of the total cases till this morning, 892 were from Delhi and the rest from the neighbouring states.


Despite the intensive fogging and fumigation drive, several parts of the Central Zone, Najafgarh, Shahdra (North) zones and areas mostly along the banks of Yamuna river, continued to report a high number of dengue cases.


?A large-scale construction activity is being carried out in various parts of the Central Zone, which has led to open sewers that are fertile breeding grounds for the mosquito,? said the Municipal Health Officer, who visited the area.


Another problem being faced in the area is irregular water supply at unauthorised construction sites that leads to storage of water for various purposes.


The Delhi Health Secretary said that a team of medical experts toured the trans Yamuna area where they found mosquito breeding at various places.


Additional manpower was deployed in the area for fogging and fumigation.

At AIIMS, which is facing a dengue deluge, 39 new patients were admitted in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of patients undergoing treatment for the viral disease to 165.


Thirty-four patients were discharged from the institute during the period.


More than 15,500 patients had been screened at the AIIMS emergency OPD since October 3, doctors said. An average of 1,000 people are being screened daily at the emergency OPD.


The hospital is conducting about 1,600 platelet-counting tests daily with the help of four separator machines, functioning round-the-clock.


However, an official at the institute rued, ?The AIIMS, a super specialty institute, has been reduced to a hospital which is only dealing with dengue. Our resources have been stretched to the limits.?


Only emergency and dengue patients are being admitted to the hospital.


?We have been told only to admit dengue and emergency patients. People have been waiting for their renal, heart or liver surgeries for years are being turned away,? he pointed out.

 

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Re: New Delhi (October 2006 )

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]A 36-hour shift fuelled by Maggi at the hospital cafe
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=205847

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</td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td colspan="3"> [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]New Delhi, October 18:[/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Long queues of patients outside government hospitals and anxious relatives complaining about lack of treatment have been the most visible images of the dengue outbreak. The doctors who struggle through the unending inflow of patients have remained unseen ? and unsung. Newsline follows a doctor at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). [/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]On October 1, Dr Anil Sharma was made one of the two nodal officers in charge of dengue patient care at the hospital. For the first five days, he could not visit his home in Ghaziabad. On October 6, he took permission to go home for his three-year-old son?s birthday. He returned to the hospital the next day.

[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]8 am: Begins his rounds of the dengue screening OPD and casualty. He first checks on the doctors on duty, speaks to patients and jots down their complaints, then meets the nurses to find out if they have enough supplies for the day. He also asks about the number of blood samples processed the previous night. He then moves to the new emergency ward. After carrying out similar checks, he proceeds to the control room where he briefs the duty office.

[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]10:30 am: He meets the medical superintendent, reviews the figures for the last 24 hour ? the number of deaths, new admissions, discharges. He then continues with his rounds. He goes to the private wards, speaks to the dieticians, and visits the blood bank to find out the stock of platelets.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]2.30 pm: Sharma takes his lunch break with the other nodal office[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]r, Dr Vinod Patra. Their lunch is basic ? Maggi at the hospital cafe.

[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]3.30 pm: Goes to the MS office for a meeting on clinical care, attended by heads of all departments. They discuss treatment strategies and change in duties. Sharma helps prepare a press statement for the 4 pm press conference. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]5 pm: Begins his evening rounds of the hospital, visits the ICU and lab. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]11.30 pm: Finally his rounds are over. He settles down to eat dinner ? Maggi at the hospital cafe once again. ?Eating home food is a luxury nowadays. Since the mess timings and my meal timings don?t match, I end up eating Maggi most of the time,? he says. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]12 midnight: He meets patients and relatives who are spending the night on the footpath outside, tells security guards not to disturb them.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]2 am: Finally, Sharma catches up on some sleep on a couch in the doctors? room. But he is woken up frequently, as patients and their relatives call up on his cellphone with their complaints ? the hospital?s notice boards display his phone number for grievance redressal. Some problems are solved on the phone. Others require more calls to the concerned departments.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]6 am: He wakes up, and heads straight to the control room to get an update. For the next 14 hours, he follows the same schedule as the previous day ? rounds of OPD, screening wards, ICU, and meetings to review the situation.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]8 pm: He finally leaves for his home. He will have to return to work the next day, at 2 pm. ?My wife is disgusted with my work schedule, my son also sulks when I go home,? he says. [/FONT]

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Re: New Delhi (October 2006 )

Dengue kills 5 more in city
20 Oct, 2006 0054hrs IST

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<TR><TD class=story colspan="2">NEW DELHI: Five more people died of dengue in the Capital early on Thursday morning, taking the toll to 42. In addition, 89 fresh cases have been reported to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi in the last 24 hours.

So far, 1,820 people in Delhi have been struck by dengue, of which 1,144 are from within the city.

All five deaths in the last 24 hours have been reported from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). Riyaz, a 65-year-old resident of Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, died at the institute in the wee hours of Thursday. He had been admitted to the institute 10 days back and succumbed to dengue shock syndrome.

His death was followed by that of Yashpal Singh, a 32-year-old resident of Mahavir Enclave, Palam. He too died of dengue shock syndrome, one day after he was brought to AIIMS. Later on Thursday afternoon, three other patients, two from Delhi and one from UP succumbed to dengue.

Meanwhile, the number of patients at AIIMS' special fever screening OPD showed a downward trend, with 750 people reporting at the department in the last 24 hours ? the lowest since the beginning of this month when the dengue scare first caught hold of Delhi. Of them, 53 dengue patients have been admitted to the hospital while 49 others have been discharged.

At present, 180 patients are admitted to the dengue wards of the hospital and 150 others are under observation in the new private ward that has recently been designated especially for dengue patients.

Since August 15, the microbiology department of the institute has done the IgM Mac Elisa test ? the confirmatory test for dengue ? on 739 blood samples, of which 428 have tested positive.

The microbiology test is not important for treatment and is only important from the epidemiological point of view as dengue is a notifiable disease.The usual treatment for dengue is to give the patient paracetamol, advise rest and give lots of fluids as the disease has a tendency of leaving the patient dehydrated.

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Re: New Delhi (October 2006 )

Dengue cases on downslide for 2nd day
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=206389

ON THE RISE: HOPES THAT THE WORST ATTACK MIGHT BE OVER AND CONCERN AS FRESH POLIO CASES RESURFACE IN CAPITAL

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]New Delhi, October 23: [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]For the second consecutive day, the count of fresh dengue cases reported in the Capital was lower than that of last week, raising hopes that the worst was indeed over. [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Fifty-three fresh dengue cases were reported in the last 24 hours. At the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), which has been reporting the highest number of dengue cases, there have been no deaths caused by the disease in the last three days. [/FONT]

<TR valign="top"><TD colspan="3">[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]While doctors attributed the decline in dengue cases to the fall in temperature, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) was quick to point out that the precautionary measures it undertook had a bigger role to play. [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]?It will take at least another five to six days for the weather to cause a fall in the number of dengue cases. The temperature began to fall only two days back. While the weather could be one of the factors for the reducing number of cases, the primary reason for the fall, we feel, is the extensive precautionary measures, including fogging and fumigation, undertaken by the MCD. It is also the result of increased awareness among the public created by the media,? said Dr N.K. Yadav, Municipal Health Officer, MCD. [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]At AIIMS, only 398 patients turned up at the dengue screening OPD in the last 24 hours compared to a daily average of 800 patients last week. [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Additional arrangements, which were made to accommodate the rush of patients, will gradually be removed, said spokesperson of the hospital Dr Shakti Gupta. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]?We plan to revert to the normal set-up by Thursday. Patients and relatives who are currently on the footpath will be accommodated in the waiting hall, which had been converted into the dengue OPD,? Dr Gupta added. [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Forty-one patients diagnosed with dengue hacve been admitted to the hospital in the last 24 hours, Dr Gupta said . [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]There are about 190 dengue-affected patients admitted at the hospital. [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The total number of dengue cases reported so far in the Capital, meanwhile, touched 2,104 on Monday, according to MCD. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]State Health Minister Yoganand Shastri today directed the MCD and NDMC to ensure that swimming pools, run by them, are kept dry.The move is aimed at checking the spread of dengue. [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The swimming pools are shut down for winter around this time every year. [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Dengue: last 10 yrs
Year : Cases (deaths)[/FONT]
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1996 : 10,252 (423)
1997 : 335 (1)
1998 : 316 (1)
1999 : 184 (Nil)
2000 : 177 (1)
2001 : 284 (3)
2002 : 45 (Nil)
2003 : 2853 (34)
2004 : 606 (3)
2005 : 1023 (9)
2006* 2104 (40) [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]*As of October 22 (Source: MCD)[/FONT]

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