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Absence of Sense of Urgency in Government Hospitals Vasanth - 23-JAN-2014
One of our relative, just 48 yrs of age, who was suspected to have cancer living in a small town 'Sagar Katte' near famous KRS Dam, after many preliminary investigations in various hospitals of Mysore like KR Hospital, JSS Hospital could not come to a conclusion. Some doctors suspected cancer is in 1st stage, some said it is not a cancer. |
murali772 - 31-JUL-2013
Duty calls, but they decided to hold the state on ransom to make their woes heard, by evading duty calls. Hundreds of drivers and paramedical staff of Arogya Kavacha (108 ambulance services) gathered at Freedom Park to press for their demands for job security and wage hikes on Sunday. |
Solid Waste Management - Vision Statement 2030 to BBMP Vasanthkumar Mysoremath - 27-JUL-2013
The following VISION STATEMENT 2030 for SWM was forwarded to email ID swmbbmp.xc@gmail.com of BBMP on 6-7-2013 in response to its call for public opinion. This is for info of Prajas. How to educate citizens and actions to be initiated are also dealt with. |
Bangalore future with no landfills murali772 - 12-JUN-2013
Came upon this ad in the ToI today. Thereafter, I browsed through |
murali772 - 25-APR-2013
There is, for instance, this Srinivagilu village road (which is an ideal link to the Intermediate Ring Road for Koramangala S T Bed layout residents, heading towards Indiranagar side), where, at any time of the day or night, you'll come upon herds of cattle, particularly buffaloes, moving about all over; in fact living on the public roads itself. |
Active burial ground in the midst of a residential locality murali772 - 25-APR-2013
At the end of the 8th cross, 1st main, S T Bed layout, Koramangala, almost adjoining the army property beyond, is this burial ground, right in the midst of densely populated high-rise residential complexes (It is the vacant land within the 'elbow' in the road facing "Tranquility Apartments" in the map accessible |
abidpqa - 12-FEB-2013
In India, private insurance promise to provide a certain amount of money in case of medical condition. This is not the purpose of health insurance. Health insurers have to provide guarantee that we will get treatment. We dont have to know how much money they have paid to hospitals or doctors.. If the insurer, has paid x amount to doctor, do we have any benefit? |
PechaKucha Night Bangalore 2013, Friday, 15th Feb, 7PM, Jaaga murali772 - 11-FEB-2013
The first PKN (Volume 11) in Bangalore this year will be Trash Talk. Bangalore has begun to fight its garbage problem, but weren't we all already? |
“Genetic Roulette: The Gamble of Our Lives” - film screening, and debate thereof murali772 - 7-FEB-2013
INDIA FOR SAFE FOOD, a citizens’ movement to uphold the right of every Indian to safe food, is organizing a film screening of “Genetic Roulette: The Gamble of Our Lives”, a film made in the USA by Institute for Responsible Technology (only important parts of the film will be shown due to paucity of time), |
murali772 - 6-FEB-2013
I had the privilege of attending what was termed as a 'Power Nashta' session of 'opinion makers' yesterday morning at the "Wake up, Clean up Bengaluru" week-long workshop, currently in progress at the Freedom Park (the facebook wall of the workshop may be accessed |