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Can Govt escape responsibility? GB Panth deaths 5/22/2012 12:10:38 AM Early Times Report Srinagar, May 21: No doctor can kill his patient willfully. This is what most of the medicos in GB Panth Hospital have to say in response to the death of infants in the hospital. According to them, the government must accept responsibility for the deaths. "The vital equipment needed in a childrens' hospital has been made available now. Had the government provided the equipment earlier, many a death could be prevented. If the hospital lacks equipment, the blame must lie somewhere else", said a doctor preferring anonymity. The GB Panth hospital is currently in news for increased mortality rate. As per media reports more than 360 infants have died in the hospital during the recent past. The administration took a serious note of the media reports and effected some changes in the hospital. The superintendent was sacked and a few ventilators were rushed to the hospital. The leader of opposition and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president, Mahbooba Mufti while expressing shock over the deaths held the government responsible for the mess in the hospital. "The stat...   READ MORE

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New Superintendent speaks 5/22/2012 12:10:26 AM The New Superintendent of the GB Panth Hospital, Dr Muneer Masoodi brought some solace to the medicos by admitting lack of facilities in the hospital. "A mafia runs in the hospital and we lack the basic facilities", he said while addressing a press conference in the summer capital today. He further said that the infant mortality rate in Jammu Kashmir was much less than other parts of the country. ...   READ MORE   G.B. Pant hospital mess must end before it messes peace 5/22/2012 12:10:18 AM early times report Srinagar, May 21: The alarming number of neonatal mortalities in G.B.Pant hospital has stirred up a public debate in addition to shock and anger in the Valley. What added fuel to fire were the remarks made by R.S. Chib, Minister for Medical Education in reply to a question about these deaths. The minister while accepting that 45 deaths had taken place in the hospital from May 1 to May 14 said there was nothing abnormal about the infant mortality rate of the hospital where 368 children had died from January 1 to May 15. Perhaps the minister had been advised by his specialist doctors that the rate of mortality was 'normal' otherwise he would have thought thrice before m...   READ MORE   Omar Sahib is pained over infant deaths! 5/22/2012 12:10:08 AM early times report Srinagar, May 21: When National Conference spokesman, Tanvir Sadiq issued a statement on GB Panth hospital deaths, some quarters smiled sarcastically. Urging politicians to refrain from playing politics over the infant deaths, Sadiq said, "Omar Sahib was pained and shares the grief of the aggrieved families." Omar ‘Sahib’ was also pained over the killing of 120 persons, mostly school going children in 2010. He said: "My heart aches for 120 martyrs." Omar's pain, however, did not get them justice. Wamiq Farooq's father is still moving from pillar to post for justice. Omar ‘Sahib’ was also pained over the `custodial' death of Haji Yusuf. The family has nobody to...   READ MORE   VHP chalks out strategy to start parallel yatra BSP warns against curtailment of pilgrimage period 5/22/2012 12:09:54 AM early times report JAMMU, May 21: To discuss arrangements for starting the holy Amarnath yatra on Jesht Purnima falling on June 4, the VHP held a series of meetings here today. The meetings besides the VHP and Bajrang Dal (BD) office beaers were also attended by activists of various social and religious organizations. According to sources meeting decided the arrangements for Boarding and lodging of about 50,000 Bajrangis reaching here from different parts of the country on June 2 to participate in the yatra next day. The VHP international spokesman Dr Surinder Jain who was in the town yesterday has issued directives to the cadres of his organization and BD activists to ensure the tumultuo...   READ MORE   Initiator of protests over smaller issues, Gupta's silence 'intriguing'…….? Denial of jobs to Jammu youth in J&K Bank 5/22/2012 12:09:38 AM Early Times Report Jammu, May 21: From mundane matters which concern the very basic survival of human beings like scarcity of drinking water supply , collapsed power supply to the larger issues which shake the pillars of political corridors with bold and brazen outcry over neglect and discrimination with Jammu region, Shiv Sena leader Ashok Gupta has certainly become the epitome of protests, demonstrations, bold slogan-eering against the government or any political party which at times does with a 'no holds barred' approach. No denying the fact that he and his followers, no matter a handful often initiate the protests on roads which sometimes snowball into major controversies, forcing ...   READ MORE   Bashing by Azad, Cong criticism leaves NC fuming…. Strains in alliance partners ties….? 5/22/2012 12:09:23 AM early times report Jammu, May 21: Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown…..no one else than the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah knows it better in the present coalition dispensation where the allies of late have intensified veiled and direct attacks against each other. Post Congress delegate convention the allies NC and Congress are once again stretching apart with ties having become fragile and grouse louder. The ties have assumed all time low and strenuous to the extent that normal rapport and coordination in routine works of governance has been impacted. Sources within the ruling National Conference said party high command has taken serious note of the criticism against NC and its...   READ MORE   Jammu-based activists condemned India in Mirpur Right To Self-Determination 5/22/2012 12:09:09 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, May 21: Two Jammu-based so-called intellectuals and peace activists have unleashed a hate-India campaign in Pakistan-occupied-Jammu& Kashmir. They are disliked in Jammu and Ladakh for their perverted views on Jammu and Kashmir and for their hobnobbing with Kashmiri separatists and their mentor Pakistan. One of them holds the Washington-based Pakistani agent of Kashmir origin Ghulam Nabi Fai in high esteem and appreciates his efforts for internationalizing the Kashmir issue and influencing the international opinion on Jammu and Kashmir. The other is heading a party which is non-functional, Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Conference. He is none other than Krishan Dev S...   READ MORE   After man deposed to having murdered, buried his wife's 2nd husband, police exhumes body 5/22/2012 12:08:55 AM early times report JAMMU, May 21: A man, who allegedly killed and buried the second husband of his wife about nine months back at Kot, 10 km from here near the Kot-Bhalwal central jail, today confessed before police to the crime. He took cops to the spot where he had allegedly buried the body which was later exhumed in the presence of SP (rural) Rajesh Sharma. The accused was identified as Mohammad Younas Khan, son of Faiz Ahmad of Mendhar, Poonch, and the victim as Ghulam Rasool, son of Imam Din of Rehan in Koteranka, Rajouri. Rasool had married Younas's wife Zeenat after the couple had separated following a divorce between them. However, after some time of their marriage, Zeenat dev...   READ MORE   Governor opposed Prof Hari Om for his book on Amarnath land row? 5/22/2012 12:08:47 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, May 21: Governor, N N Vohra was not "happy with Prof Hari Om" whom the University of Jammu offered the prestigious Maharaja Gulab Singh Chair in October 2007 recognizing his "academic attainment and contribution". This is what sources in the University of Jammu reveal on condition of anonymity. The credit for establishing Maharaja Gulab Singh Chair goes to Dr Karan Singh, former Governor Lt Gen (Retd) S K Sinha, former Vice-Chancellor of Jammu University Prof R R Sharma and Secretary Maharaja Gulab Singh Memorial Trust Brigadier J S Rajput. Earlier, Prof Hari Om had held several positions in the University of Jammu, including Head of Department, Dean Faculty of So...   READ MORE

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