The Canadian Parvasi - Issue 27

The International News Weekly India
January 05, 2018 | Toronto
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India uses robots in coronary surgery first time outside US
Agencies
AHMEDABAD: Ahmedabad-based,
internationally-reputed
cardiologist Tejas
Patel on Thursday said
he has introduced here vascular
robotic technology
for the first time anywhere
outside the US to perform
coronary angioplasty and
stenting.
Patel told reporters
here that the new technology,
which he had implemented
on 57 patients in a
month, would make India a
frontrunner in the modern
healthcare system with almost
zero failure rate in angioplasty
and stenting.
He introduced the technology
at the Apex Heart
Institute here, making the
state of the art cardiology
centre a "global centre of
excellence" outside the US.
Patel said the first robot
was installed at the institute
on December 7 and in
less than a month he and
his team had carried out 57
surgeries with the robotics
technology.
"The Apex Heart Institute,
Ahmedabad, is the
first institute in the world
outside the US to have the
robotics technology for angioplasty
and stenting," he
claimed.
In the USA too, the technology
was available only
at eight centres and was introduced
just about a year
ago. "India is much ahead
of any other country, including
the European countries
to introduce this," he
said.
He said though robotics
technology for other parts
of the body arrived many
years ago, it took longer
for the scientists to perfect
the technique for heart as it
was the only "moving" part
in the body.
According to Patel,
the new technology could
achieve "near cent per cent
success rate and almost
zero per cent failure rate"
which was the ultimate
objective of the healthcare
system besides keeping
both the doctors, nurses
and other hospital staff outside
the radiation impact.
He said the robotics
system could secure nearly
five to 10 times more accuracy
than the manual
system and would help the
country achieve the ultimate
goal of super speciality
healthcare facilities to
remote villages as robotics
system would soon be able
to perform such surgeries
from distance.
Patel stated that costwise
the new technology
would be about Rs 50,000 to
Rs 1.5 lakh more expensive
than the traditional manual
system, but added that
the higher expenses would
be acceptable given its success
rate.
Indian capital gets first
automated vehicle
fitness centre
By Nikhil M. Babu
Why silence on mass cow
deaths in MP, Congress asks PM
NEW DELHI: Delhi's first automated commercial vehicle
fitness testing centre will be opened during the current
month, Delhi Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot
said. All commercial vehicles, including buses, taxis, autorickshaws,
heavy and light commercial vehicle, among
others, have to undergo testing and get a fitness certificate.
The testing centre at Jhuljhuli of west Delhi would be
better compared to visual inspection currently done at
the testing facility in Burari of North Delhi, according to
officials. New commercial vehicles have to be tested and
also every year after the first two years, for the vehicle's
overall performance and its condition.
"For the past one month, we have been doing fitness
testing of school buses and AITP (All India Tourist Permit)
buses at the Jhuljhuli centre on a pilot basis," Delhi
Transport Department Special Commissioner K.K. Dahiya
told IANS.
The testing of different parts of a vehicle like brakes
and headlights will be done by machines and a test result
would be generated. Dahiya said that the new centre
would take pressure off the only vehicle fitness testing
centre in Burari. The Jhuljhuli centre, set up in three
acres of land, is a joint venture between the Union Ministry
of Road Transport and Highways and the Delhi
government. Dahiya said that the Burari centre will continue
to function and they plan to automate the centre by
the end of the current year.
Agencies
BHOPAL: The Congress
in Madhya Pradesh
on Thursday questioned
the silence of Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and
Rashtriya Swayamsevak
Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat
over the deaths of hundreds
of cows in a shelter in
the state.
Leader of Opposition
Ajay Singh said he wrote
to Modi and Bhagwat demanding
that the deaths of
cows in the country's biggest
shelter in Agar Malwa
district's Salariya village
be probed and guilty be
booked for murder.
State Congress chief
Arun Yadav asked why
are the people who give a
free hand to cow vigilantes,
who kill people caught with
a single cow, silent on the
deaths of so many cows.
Ajay Singh said he visited
the shelter with Yadav
on Tuesday and saw that
many cows were in a bad
condition. "The cows who
had died had not been buried
properly and dogs were
feasting on the carcasses...
It was a shameful sight."
"To get votes, these
people (in the Bharatiya
Janata Party) do not shy
away from calling the cow
'gau mata' (cow mother)
and even 'rashtra mata'
(mother of the nation) but
once the votes are in, they
forget everything." The two
Congress leaders said that
in the past three months,
more than 400 cows have
died at the shelter but the
administration is accepting
only 117 deaths.
The letter was sent to
Bhagwat in Ujjain where
the RSS chief is currently
camping with some
Bharatiya Janata Party
members.
Bhagwat and Chief
Minister Shivraj Singh
Chouhan were both present
at the foundation laying
ceremony of this shelter,
the letter said, adding
Chouhan had even said the
spot will be made a pilgrimage
place of cows.
No leak of Aadhaar data, as UIDAI denies Tribune report
Indo-Asian News Service
NEW DELHI: Unique
Identification Authority
of India (UIDAI) on Thursday
said its search facility
for grievance redressal
may have been misused
but denied any breach or
leak of Aadhaar data after
a Tribune reported it
bought unrestricted access
to details of over one
billion Aadhaar numbers
-- for just Rs 500 and in 10
minutes.
The authority that collects
and maintains biometric
and other details
for the unique ID holders
called The Tribune report
"a case of misreporting".
But the newspaper stood
by its story, saying the
UIDAI claiming no breach
of Aadhaar data "flies in
the face of that".
"UIDAI assures that
there has not been any
Aadhaar data breach...
The Aadhaar data including
biometric information
is fully safe and secure,"
an UIDAI statement said,
adding that the data was
secure with a "robust uncompromised
security".
The authority said it
had given search facility
for the purpose of grievance
redressal to designated
personnel and state government
officials to help
residents. The search facility,
the statement said,
"gives only limited access
to name and other details
and has no access to biometric
details.
"The reported case appears
to be instance of
misuse of the grievance
redressal search facility.
As UIDAI maintains complete
log and traceability
of the facility, the legal action
including lodging of
FIR against the persons involved
in the instant case
is being done."
The Tribune report,
widely shared on social
media, claimed that it took
just Rs 500 and 10 minutes
for the newspaper to get access
through an "agent" to
every detail of any individual
submitted to the UIDAI
including name, address,
postal code (PIN), photo,
phone number and email.
The newspaper said
it paid another Rs 300, for
which the "agent" provided
a software to facilitate the
printing of the Aadhaar
card after entering the
Aadhaar number of any individual.
In its point-by-point
response to UIDAI's denial,
the newspaper said
UIDAI's admission that the
search facility on its website
had been "misused"
did not change the fact that
the theft had taken taken
place.
"Aadhaar data has been
accessed by unauthorised
people. The fact is that it
has been misused to steal
data - personal information
such as name, date of
birth, address, PIN, photo,
phone number, e-mail - at
will, for any Aadhaar number."
The UIDAI said an Aadhaar
number was not a secret
number and needed to
be shared with authorised
agencies to avail certain
service or benefit of government
welfare schemes
or other services and the
proper use of Aadhaar
number posed no security
and financial threat as for
a successful authentication
fingerprint or iris of
individual was required.