CUT'TING DISREGARD

State govt under Modi ignored Centre's 2009 advisory to set up rape crisis centres in each district. Now Modi-led Centre plans to cut down RCCs to one in each state

Rape cases instate spike by over 70 pcin 5 years, yet Centre shows…

Two rapes occur every hour in India, reveals National Crime Records Bureau data. Statistics also show an 837% increase in rape cases in the country the last five decades. In Gujarat, which is considered a safe haven for women, rape cases have spiked by 70 per cent over past five years.

TAINTED TRANSFUSION

Sunita Mishra, a21-year-old student from Ahmedabad, met with a car accident in 2012 on her wayto grandparents' home in Vadodara. She was admitted to a private hospital in acritical condition. She was discharged a few days later. However, every month,her parents have to go to civil hospital to collect her medicines. Reason: Sunita had been infected with HIV after being administered tainted blood during treatment.

While Gujarat is peddling med ical tourism to the world, as many as 2,500 people in the state have contracted HIV through blood transfusion in six years. In reply to an application filed under the Right to Information Act, the Union ministry of health and welfare revealed that the state stood highest with 271 cases of HIV infections caused by blood transfusion. The shocker is that Gujarat has continuously recorded the highest number of cases in past six years. Experts attribute infections to medical negligence and rampant malpractice among blood banks.

IF ONLY THEY BUILT A SKIN BANK - 80 PER CENT OF BURNS VICTIMS COULD HAVE BEEN SAVED AT CIVIL

 Civil Hospital and BJMedical College fail to build a skin bank though they signed an MoU with aEuropean firm during the 2011 Vibrant summit; this despite that fact that abouthalf of the burns patients die following infection due to lack of skintransplant
One patient dies in the burns department of Civil Hospital almost every day. Nearly 80 per cent of these people can be saved if they received skin transplant in time. But Civil Hospital and BJ Medical College, have failed to set up a skin bank despite signing a memorandum of understanding with Euro Skin Bank in 2011, two Vibrant summits ago.

MIRROR EXPOSÉ of govt docs practising in pvt - health dept acts, only selectively

The file with the department containsnames of more than 100 govt doctors who are flouting service rules but only 7of them have been transferred

After months of wait, the health department acted against government doctors who practise in private, but transferred only seven of the 105 of them.

In a sweeping order, the health department on Tuesday, transferred 80 government doctors to various GMERS (Gujarat Medical Education and Research Society) hospitals in the state to fill the vacancies there. However, the list includes only seven such doc tors who had earlier filed an affidavit in Gujarat High Court defending pri vate practice. The fact that 98 others who had filed similar