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• Rajkot fire tragedy: 30 ICU beds prepared in AIIMS Rajkot for treatment of injured, informs Health Minister Mandaviya

  ​Gujarat Director General of Police has instructed the Commissioners of Police and District Superintendents of Police to inspect all the game zones in the state and to close the game zones running without fire safety permission. The director general of police has told to carry out this procedure in coordination with the fire officers of the municipalities and municipalities and the local system.

  

• RML Hospital doctor-company nexus case: How CBI found out what was going on

  According to information from sources cited by TOI, the recent Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) operation at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital was launched following technical surveillance starting from March. Furthermore, it is said that the CBI utilized decoy patients to confirm the intelligence they had collected before taking action.

  

• New Delhi: Drugs close to expiry dates helped boost profits at sham hosp

  Investigation reveals accused procured near-expiry medicines for profits at Agarwal Medical Centre. Police scrutinising purchase receipts for evidence. Seized sub-standard equipment, including rusty scissors and outdated blood sample preservation. Operation theatre described as filthy and of substandard quality. Congested and unkept beds arrangement. 414 prescription slips with only doctors' signatures found. Six people arrested, including proprietor, lab technician, fake surgery notes preparer, medical representative, and middleman quack.

  

• Mob vandalises hospital, attacks on-duty doctor in Tripura

  According to police, a group of people stormed the hospital with two dead bodies and three people who got injured in a road accident in the locality. As the condition of the injured people was serious, the doctor referred them to the district hospital in Kailasahar but the ambulance was not in order to transport the patient, which irked the people.

  

• HC sees red as only 50% of nursing colleges in the state fit to operate

  The court noted that a significant number of the inspected nursing colleges did not meet the requirements and specifications provided under the 2018 Rules, despite having been given retrospective affiliation, and the link was about to be opened to provide enrolment numbers to the so-called students for the academic session 2020-21. The court called it an "uncanny state of affairs" at the level of the Medical Science University.

  

• HC orders CBI to probe all 364 nursing colleges in Madhya Pradesh

  The state government has handed over to CBI a list of all the nursing colleges that were granted affiliation in the last few years. A chart was also prepared before the divisional bench at Gwalior high court to demonstrate the number of colleges that were granted renewal. Of the 25 colleges inspected by the CBI following HC orders of September 27 and 28, 2022, 11 are on the list of 364 colleges due for detailed investigation.

  

• Forced virginity test is unconstitutional, rules Delhi high court

  The Delhi high court on Tuesday held that forced virginity test on persons in police or judicial custody is unconstitutional stating that srangely, though the word “virginity” may not have a definite scientific and medical definition, it has become a mark of purity of a woman. The court further stated that it is not impressed with the argument of the law enforcement agency that the virginity test was necessary to uphold the laws since this argument itself flouts basic principles that a person’s dignity even in custody has to be upheld.

  

• 'Not convinced' Covid-19 developed naturally, says Dr Fauci

  Fauci said that he is not convinced that the virus developed naturally and that investigation on what went on in China should continue.

  

• Origins of Covid-19 need to be investigated further, leading scientists say

  More investigation is still needed to determine the origin of the pandemic, stated 18 scientists, including Ravindra Gupta, a clinical microbiologist at the University of Cambridge and Jesse Bloom, who studies the evolution of viruses at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

  

• World Health Organization literally a pipe organ for China: Trump

  Trump has launched an investigation into the WHO's role in the spread of coronavirus and have accused it of siding with China during the pandemic. Pending an investigation, the President has stopped US aid to the WHO.

  

• China orders investigation after scientist claims first gene-edited babies

  He Jiankui defended what he claimed to have achieved, saying he had performed the gene editing to help protect the babies from future infection with the AIDS virus.