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Monday, March 14, 2011
Tomorrow:The Battle of Wisconsin video conference
Rani Mukerjee joins the World Stroke Campaign
Ludhiana:: Dr Jeyaraj D Pandian, Professor of Neurology and Stroke Neurologist from Christian Medical College, Ludhiana in a press conference announced that Ms Rani Mukerjee, Indian film actress and Bollywood celebrity, has joined the “1 in 6” campaign as goodwill ambassador of the Indian Stroke Association and the World Stroke Organization.
Stroke or Brain attack is the second leading cause of death for people above 60 years and a leading cause of disability throughout the world. Every six seconds, regardless of age or gender someone somewhere will die from stroke. In fact, stroke is responsible for more deaths every year than those attributed to HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria put together.
Ms Rani Mukerjee was officially announced as an Indian Stroke Ambassador in a press conference held by the Indian Stroke Association in Mumbai on February 23. She has committed the next three years to being the voice for stroke in India. As a first step in pledging her support and in contributing towards awareness and treatment of stroke across India, the actress has established the Rani Mukerjee Stroke Treatment Fund in collaboration with the Indian Stroke Association. The actress’ charity fund will initially be used to treat 25 stroke survivors who are unable to afford the necessary clot bursting drug (rtPA) treatment.
The actress cited two of her close family members’ recent stroke attacks as an impetus for her to join the cause. “In our country stroke is the third largest killer and is also, the leading cause of adult disability. It will be my privilege to support the Indian Stroke Association and in its pioneering efforts towards awareness, diagnosis and appropriate management of the condition,” underscores Mukerjee.
Dr Pandian, who is also a Board of Director to World Stroke Organization from Southeast Asia says that in India 40% of the stroke patients die within 1 month after stroke. There are two types of stroke; ischemic when there is blockage of arteries due to a clot, and hemorrhagic (brain hemorrhage) when the artery ruptures. Majority of the patients reach the hospital very late. If they reach within 4 ½ hours patients can receive the clot bursting drug called rtPA. So far over the last 2 years in the CMC Stroke Unit 33 patients have received this drug which is the highest for this period in Northwest India.
Dr Pandian said that stroke patients present with a variety of symptoms. They are sudden weakness of one side of face, arm and leg; sudden trouble speaking; sudden trouble understanding; sudden numbness in one side; sudden imbalance; sudden loss of vision; sudden headache and giddiness. If someone experiences these symptoms they should rush to CMC or call CMC Ambulance number: 98148 29301. Dr Pandian also said that the common causes of stroke are hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, smoking, overweight and unhealthy lifestyle. He also mentioned that stroke is preventable.
Mrs Ruma Singh, Mrs Dilpreet Kaur and Ms Arshi Mangat, Dieticians of CMC stated that stroke can be prevented by consuming healthy food, adapting regular exercise and also by reducing weight. After a stroke, patient needs a coordinated multidisciplinary rehabilitation says Dr Santosh Mathangi who is a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physician in CMC. The other therapists who contribute to the multidisciplinary stroke rehabilitation are Ms Rajni Arora (Neurophysiotherapist), Ms Gagan Toor (Physiotherapist), Ms Dimple (Occupational therapist) and Mr Sanjeev Kumar (Speech Therapist). The stroke rehabilitation team is also involved in many research projects and randomized controlled trials.
Dr Kanwal Masih, Medical Superindent lauded the efforts of Stroke Unit in CMC in giving quality care and also raising the public awareness of stroke.Shalu Arora & Sheeba Singh
March 14th: Sikh Environment Day
Gurdwaras will take part by:
*Singing shabads and reciting katha focused on the environment
*Holding ceremonial tree plantings
*Children's reflections on Sikhi and the environment
*Creating environmental notice boards
Gurdwaras are also coming up with creative ways to celebrate the day, including children's environmental art displays, nagar kirtans with environmental themes, and reducing energy and water use.
Location of this even is every Gurdwara ofthe world and time Monday, March 14 · 12:00am - 11:30pm. Event is created and announced by EcoSikh Lehar. for more detail you may also visit www.ecosikh.org to learn more about Sikhi's contribution to a sustainable future.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Gates Calls for Mideast Reform, Recaps Message to NATO
By Karen Parrish American Forces Press Service ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT, March 12, 2011 - En route to Washington after leaving Bahrain today, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said while Bahrain's rulers are serious about coming to terms with the opposition, governments across the region must understand that reforms must come, and quickly.
Flying stateside after a weeklong series of visits to Afghanistan, Germany, Belgium and Bahrain, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates offered reporters traveling with him his perspective on a week that also witnessed horrific damage to Japan following an earthquake and tsunami. The secretary said he had good conversations while in Bahrain with King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa and Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa. Gates said he is confident they are ready to engage in meaningful discussions with the opposition and establish necessary reforms. "I am convinced they both are serious about real reform," the secretary said. "I think that the concern now is that it's important that they have somebody to talk to, and that the opposition be willing to sit down with the government and carry this process forward." Given Bahraini rulers' willingness to engage with the opposition, Gates said, he believes they can serve as a model for the entire region. The challenge for Middle East and North African governments faced with civil unrest in recent months, he said, is to maintain stability and continuity while instituting positive reforms. Gates said he told Bahrain's king and crown prince that citizens' desire for governmental change and reform across the region was real and irreversible. "That across the region, I did not believe there could be a return to the status quo ante. That there was change; and it could be led, or it could be imposed," Gates said he told the Bahraini leaders. Governments leading reform and being responsive, Gates said, is what the United States would like to see in the region. Gates said the meetings in Bahrain included much talk of Iran. "We [have] no evidence that Iran started any of these popular revolutions, or demonstrations," the secretary said. What is clear, he added, is that Iran will exploit any opportunities popular unrest offers. In a media session following his meetings with Gates, the crown prince was vocal about the need for opposing parties to seek common ground. "There is ... [a] point of view in the country that a significant portion of the electoral base feels that their voice is unheard, and they want the respect due to them," the crown prince said. "At the end of the day," he added, "we are all going to have to live in the same country together and talk to one another." Gates said he sees no threat to the security of the Navy's 5th Fleet based in Manama, Bahrain, or to other U.S. assets, but noted the U.S. has the capacity to respond as needed to events in the region. "One of the issues under discussion with respect to Libya, obviously, is a no-fly zone," he said. While that would involve considerable resources, the secretary said, "If we are directed to impose a no-fly zone, we have the resources to do it." The question is not whether the United States and its allies have the ability to establish a no-fly zone in Libya, Gates said. "The question is whether it's a wise thing to do," the secretary said. "That's the discussion that's going on at a political level." Turning to the recent earthquake and tsunami natural disasters in Japan, the secretary said the United States has ships and helicopters in and converging on the area to offer any rescue, humanitarian or disaster relief assistance Japan requests. "We're working very closely with the government of Japan and with our embassy, and we'll be responsive," Gates said. Asked about remarks he made yesterday at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, urging International Security Assistance Force contributing nations to maintain their commitment to the mission in Afghanistan, Gates said he had tried to send a clear message. The secretary said his comments were intended to prevent "a stampede for the exits, using whatever drawdowns we begin with in July as a pretext." Gates said his message to NATO was cautionary. "Let's not get ahead of ourselves here," he said. "We've still got to [get to] 2014, and we've still got a lot of work to do." | ||
| Biographies: Robert M. Gates Related Sites: Special Report: Travels With Gates State Department Background Note on Bahrain NATO International Security Assistance Force Related Articles: Gates Visits Bahrain to Urge Reform Dialogue Gates Sees 'Very Encouraging' Progress in Afghanistan | ||
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Arlington Burial Planned for Last 'Doughboy'
By Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, March 11, 2011 - America will pay its respects to its last World War I veteran March 15, as former Army Cpl. Frank Buckles is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
He will lie in honor at Arlington's Memorial Amphitheater Chapel from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 15 for the public to pay its last respects. The interment will be at 4 p.m., and the corporal will be buried near the site where General of the Armies John "Black Jack" Pershing, the commander of the American Expeditionary Force, is buried. The Pentagon Channel will carry the service. Buckles was born in Missouri in 1901. He enlisted in the Army in 1917, shortly after the United States declared war on Germany and its allies. He served as an ambulance driver on the Western Front. In 1941, Buckles was in the Philippines, working in Manila, when Japan invaded the island nation. The Japanese captured him and confined him at the Los Banos prison with 2,200 other American civilians. U.S. forces liberated the camp in 1945. President Barack Obama has ordered that U.S. flags be flown at half staff in Buckles' honor March 15. Two men in Great Britain are believed to be World War I's last living veterans. Both are 110 years old. | ||
| Related Sites: Photo Essay: World War I Exhibit Unveiled Related Articles: Last American WWI Veteran Dies World War I Vet Welcomes Celebrity of His Generation Pentagon Honors WWI Veteran, Unveils Exhibit | ||
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Release Prisoner of Conscience--Amnesty International
Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:16 PM
London : Amnesty International today called on Cuban authorities to release an activist on hunger strike who was detained for his human rights work three months ago and faces trial at the end of March.
Néstor Rodríguez Lobaina, the president and co-founder of the Cuban Youth Movement for Democracy, was arrested last December in relation to a meeting he organized at his home in August 2010 and for anti-government banners he displayed outside his home.
Néstor, his brother Rolando Rodríguez Lobaina and three other members of the Cuban Youth Movement for Democracy - Enyor Díaz Allen, Roberto González Pelegrín and Francisco Manzanet - have been charged with public order offenses relating to an attack on his home by a mob opposed to the meeting. The five men were arrested in August 2010 and released the following month. Only Rodriguez Lobaina was arrested again.
“Néstor Rodríguez Lobaina has spent more than three months in prison for expressing his opinions, defending democracy and promoting human rights in Cuba. Amnesty International considers him a prisoner of conscience jailed solely for exercising his right to freedom of expression and is calling on the Cuban authorities to release him immediately and unconditionally, or bear the responsibility of the impact of the hunger strike on Néstor’s physical integrity,” said Gerardo Ducos of Amnesty International. "Néstor imprisonment is yet another example of the suppression of the rights to freedom of expression and association in Cuba."
Held at Combinado de Guantánamo prison, Rodríguez Lobaina started his hunger strike on February 15. The next day he was transferred to an isolation cell and denied water for eight days. Rodríguez Lobaina’s health deteriorated during his hunger strike and on February 28 he was transferred to a health post in the prison. He was then transferred to Augustino Neto Provincial Hospital on March 1.
Rodríguez Lobaina was arrested again by state security agents in Guantanamo on December 9, 2010. He was pepper sprayed and pushed roughly into a police car in front of his 10-year-old daughter who was left alone in the street as her father was taken into custody. While in detention Néstor says he has suffered beatings and threats from other inmates.
Amnesty International is a Nobel Peace Prize-winning grassroots activist organization with more than 3 million supporters, activists and volunteers in more than 150 countries campaigning for human rights worldwide. The organization investigates and exposes abuses, educates and mobilizes the public, and works to protect people wherever justice, freedom, truth and dignity are denied. (Issued on--March 12, 2011)
Néstor Rodríguez Lobaina, the president and co-founder of the Cuban Youth Movement for Democracy, was arrested last December in relation to a meeting he organized at his home in August 2010 and for anti-government banners he displayed outside his home.
Néstor, his brother Rolando Rodríguez Lobaina and three other members of the Cuban Youth Movement for Democracy - Enyor Díaz Allen, Roberto González Pelegrín and Francisco Manzanet - have been charged with public order offenses relating to an attack on his home by a mob opposed to the meeting. The five men were arrested in August 2010 and released the following month. Only Rodriguez Lobaina was arrested again.
“Néstor Rodríguez Lobaina has spent more than three months in prison for expressing his opinions, defending democracy and promoting human rights in Cuba. Amnesty International considers him a prisoner of conscience jailed solely for exercising his right to freedom of expression and is calling on the Cuban authorities to release him immediately and unconditionally, or bear the responsibility of the impact of the hunger strike on Néstor’s physical integrity,” said Gerardo Ducos of Amnesty International. "Néstor imprisonment is yet another example of the suppression of the rights to freedom of expression and association in Cuba."
Held at Combinado de Guantánamo prison, Rodríguez Lobaina started his hunger strike on February 15. The next day he was transferred to an isolation cell and denied water for eight days. Rodríguez Lobaina’s health deteriorated during his hunger strike and on February 28 he was transferred to a health post in the prison. He was then transferred to Augustino Neto Provincial Hospital on March 1.
Rodríguez Lobaina was arrested again by state security agents in Guantanamo on December 9, 2010. He was pepper sprayed and pushed roughly into a police car in front of his 10-year-old daughter who was left alone in the street as her father was taken into custody. While in detention Néstor says he has suffered beatings and threats from other inmates.
Amnesty International is a Nobel Peace Prize-winning grassroots activist organization with more than 3 million supporters, activists and volunteers in more than 150 countries campaigning for human rights worldwide. The organization investigates and exposes abuses, educates and mobilizes the public, and works to protect people wherever justice, freedom, truth and dignity are denied. (Issued on--March 12, 2011)
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Saturday, March 12, 2011
Appeal for Rajkumar
Ludhiana :Rajkumar, Hospital Unit No- C 7166555, from Ludhiana is diagnosed to have chronic renal failure with end stage renal disease. He was working as a auto-driver but presently in view of his disease he is without a job.
He has a wife with 2 children, one is 10 years and the other is 11 years. He needs help for continuing his maintenance haemodialysis. He requires atleast Rs. 20 -25,000/- per month. In view of the fact that he is the sole bread winner with his family dependent on him .
We would appreciate if contribution could be done towards his treatment. He also is not a condition to support his family including his wife & children.
Good Samaritans desirous of helping him are requested to contact the Medical Superintendent, CMC Ludhiana. Cheques can be drawn in favour of Christian Medical College Ludhiana mentioning “Treatment for Rajkumar Unit No. C7166555” at the back of the Cheque. Shalu Arora//Rector Kathuria
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