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Time of India
5 days ago
- Health
- Time of India
Govt shielding Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital management in the Bhise death case: Danve
Pune: Shiv Sena (UBT) MLC Ambadas Danve on Friday claimed that state govt was trying to shield the Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital management in the death of Tanisha alias Ishwari Bhise after the health hub allegedly denied her treatment. Danve raised the issue of Bhise's death while discussing the functioning of charitable hospitals in the state in the state legislative council. The Shiv Sena (UBT) MLC cited the Bhise death case and said several charitable hospitals had been denying treatment to patients in the state. "Charitable hospitals are supposed to give treatment to patients irrespective of their financial condition. Over 750 complaints of denial of treatment by charitable hospitals are pending before the State Health Assurance Society despite that clause. These complaints are mostly from cities like Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar. It is sad that the govt is not taking any corrective measures," Danve said. You Can Also Check: Pune AQI | Weather in Pune | Bank Holidays in Pune | Public Holidays in Pune Bhise's death in Pune in March had created a huge row across the state. She was the wife of the personal assistant of BJP MLC Amit Gorkhe. Gorkhe and Bhise's family members had blamed the Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital management and the treating doctor for her death Danve said in the legislative council, "The govt initiated action against the doctor concerned, but the entire management was set free. In reality, the doctor had a very little role. The money was asked by the hospital's management, and therefore, its members should face the action. Some people in the govt are shielding the management of Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital. Therefore, there has been no action against any of the management people of the hospital. " TOI tried to contact Dr Dhananjay Kelkar, the medical director of Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital. But he said he was out of the country. Calls to the state health minister, Prakash Abitkar, went unanswered. The family members of Bhise had alleged that she was pregnant and taken to the hospital in an emergency condition. Instead of providing treatment to her, the hospital allegedly asked her family members to deposit the advance amount, which was in excess of Rs10 lakh. Bhise's relatives said they did not have so much cash and shifted her to another hospital. Bhise died after delivering the child. State govt had constituted various committees to conduct a detailed inquiry into the case, after several political parties, including members from Mahayuti, held demonstrations outside Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital. Pune: Shiv Sena (UBT) MLC Ambadas Danve on Friday claimed that state govt was trying to shield the Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital management in the death of Tanisha alias Ishwari Bhise after the health hub allegedly denied her treatment. Danve raised the issue of Bhise's death while discussing the functioning of charitable hospitals in the state in the state legislative council. The Shiv Sena (UBT) MLC cited the Bhise death case and said several charitable hospitals had been denying treatment to patients in the state. "Charitable hospitals are supposed to give treatment to patients irrespective of their financial condition. Over 750 complaints of denial of treatment by charitable hospitals are pending before the State Health Assurance Society despite that clause. These complaints are mostly from cities like Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar. It is sad that the govt is not taking any corrective measures," Danve said. Bhise's death in Pune in March had created a huge row across the state. She was the wife of the personal assistant of BJP MLC Amit Gorkhe. Gorkhe and Bhise's family members had blamed the Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital management and the treating doctor for her death Danve said in the legislative council, "The govt initiated action against the doctor concerned, but the entire management was set free. In reality, the doctor had a very little role. The money was asked by the hospital's management, and therefore, its members should face the action. Some people in the govt are shielding the management of Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital. Therefore, there has been no action against any of the management people of the hospital. " TOI tried to contact Dr Dhananjay Kelkar, the medical director of Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital. But he said he was out of the country. Calls to the state health minister, Prakash Abitkar, went unanswered. The family members of Bhise had alleged that she was pregnant and taken to the hospital in an emergency condition. Instead of providing treatment to her, the hospital allegedly asked her family members to deposit the advance amount, which was in excess of Rs10 lakh. Bhise's relatives said they did not have so much cash and shifted her to another hospital. Bhise died after delivering the child. State govt had constituted various committees to conduct a detailed inquiry into the case, after several political parties, including members from Mahayuti, held demonstrations outside Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital.
The Hindu
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Hindu
Vikrant Bhise's shades of blue
When Vikrant Bhise, 40, had his first big South Mumbai show, Hum Dekhenge (We Will See), in 2024, he gave the politically somnolent neighbourhood a booster shot of hidden-in-plain-sight history. 'Lots of people from the movement came,' the multi award-winning painter recalls. There was everything from Ambedkari jalsa (anti-caste protest poetry and songs) to Dalit Panther magazine archives that belonged to its co-founder Raja Dhale, and other invocations of Bhim, a rallying cry for Ambedkarites. Residents of Ramabai Ambedkar Nagar chawl in suburban Ghatkopar stood in front of his paintings of the 1997 riot where police fired on those protesting the desecration of a statue of B.R. Ambedkar, and soaked in the portraits of the 10 victims. 'That's my uncle,' one visitor told Bhise. It was an important moment for an artist who is driven to paint the unseen and untold. 'This is my calling,' says Bhise, who witnessed the riot from his uncle's house. 'These are my stories.' His work seems even more urgent at a time when these histories are being deliberately erased and/or co-opted. Some visitors said they didn't know such things had happened in Mumbai and that too 'so recently'. Now you understand why the artist is on a mission to take our 3,000-year history of caste-based oppression to a wider audience and disillusion those who believe the caste system is dead. Pain, people and protest Bhise is prolific. He may set out to make 50 multi-layered works and end up with 120 as it happened with Archival Historicity, inspired by Dalit Panther pamphlets from the 1970s and showcasing their inspiration, the Black Panther Party, founded in California in 1966. (The series is ongoing; Bhise sees it as his 'daily diary'.) Some of these works were acquired and are on permanent display at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. At his first solo show in Noida in 2023, there were some 400 works, including a 16x10 foot mural of the 16-year-long Namantar struggle that centred around renaming a university in Maharashtra's Aurangabad, and the 10-panel 'Quest For Justice' inspired by protests past and present that stretched across 40 feet. 'When I see the works of Renaissance painters, they're mostly about war and fighting, about the depiction of real things,' he says. 'This is our renaissance.' On display at the just-concluded Summer Berlinale were five panels or 20 feet of the Mahad Satyagraha, the 1927 non-violent movement led by Ambedkar for the right to access public water. Change is here, but its pace is not enough for the artist. 'We keep thinking how far we've come,' he says. 'But it's been 100 years and only one community does the waste collection and sanitation work.' From the precarious lives of workers to scholars driven to suicide by casteism, all find representation in Bhise's labyrinthine artworks bursting with pain, people and protest. Bodies are entwined in conflict and change in paintings with shades of blue that range from the palest sky to the deepest indigo. Painting untold histories While Bhise's works have always centred caste, labour, poverty and justice, it was only after the citizenship protests in 2019, the COVID-19 lockdown, and the farmers' protests, that he began painting Ambedkar, a leader who was invoked in all of these moments. 'Wherever there is injustice, there is Ambedkar,' Bhise says. His first portrait in 2021, titled Labour Leader, was of a worker using a rag to wipe a statue of Ambedkar. The man cleans the statue with his right hand as his left hand rests over Ambedkar's eyes. You could say it represents the uncovering of hidden history. 'Who killed Nitin Aage?' Bhise asks this question in the title of a painting about an intercaste love affair that ended in the brutal murder of a teenager. Like Aage, Bhise fell in love with a Maratha woman, Siddhi, who he met in art school, and they married despite family opposition. Now he dodges their four-year-old twins, Abir and Kabir, instructing them to stay away from his materials, as he paints in the midst of his fatherly life, grabbing every chance to work. 'There's no waiting for the right mood,' he says. He also spotlights the everyday joy and inspiration a community relies on in the midst of oppression, whether it's the annual gathering at Mumbai's Chaityabhumi, where Ambedkar was cremated; or humanitarian idols such as Jyotiba and Savitribai Phule; a euphoric indigo representation of a Jayanti; or the red wall of his parents' home. 'I want people to see Ambedkarite lives,' he says. 'Our houses are also different, our food, our literature, our living style, the colour palette…' Recently, his paintings have been displayed at prestigious venues such as Art Dubai and Art Basel. Coming up are Bergen Assembly in Norway and Frieze London, among many others. 'My works were shown in 20 group shows last year,' he says, still slightly incredulous about the growing interest in his art. It was after the Noida show that the art world really embraced Bhise's stories. All the years of working with a courier company until he took a big leap to follow his passion and study art, and then a long stint as an art teacher and tutor, have finally paid off. Now he can devote all his time to painting the histories that nobody told us about. The writer is a Bengaluru-based journalist and the co-founder of India Love Project on Instagram.
Indian Express
01-07-2025
- Business
- Indian Express
How sweet corn cultivation has taken root in Maharashtra, allowing farmers to reap better benefits
Stepping away from his usual kharif crops like beans and cabbage, Deepak Bhise has switched to cultivating sweet corn for the last three years. This farmer from Yedgaon village in Pune's Junnar taluka said economics and an easy market prompted him to shift to corn which was hardly popular in the area until a few years ago. 'An acre produces 4-5 tonnes of sweet corn, popularly known as bhutta, and the cost of production is around Rs 10,000. Traders come to my farm and buy the crop at Rs 14 per kilogram, which translates to Rs 70,000 from an acre. Also, the harvesting is done by the traders themselves,' he said. Bhise, who heads the tomato growers' association in Junnar, said sweet corn is now becoming a major alternative to vegetables and even to cane for farmers in the area. 'Every thing depends on how much we earn. At present, sweet corn is the best thing available for us,' said the farmer who now cultivates only sweet corn across his four-acre land. Grilled sweet corn is a popular snack in Pune and across India during the monsoon. From small roadside vendors who freshly roast it over coal fire to bigger outlets that use it in soup or as part of other elaborate dishes, sweet corn has now become almost a staple in many parts of the country. This has eased the switch for farmers like Bhise. Sweet corn (Zea mays) is a type of maize which is mainly used for human consumption. Maharashtra grows around 8-10 lakh hectares of maize a year. Ground maize is mostly used for starch and in animal feed industries, while sweet corn is used for human consumption. It is estimated that around 20,000-25,000 hectares come under sweet corn cultivation annually. The crop is mainly grown in Pune, Kolhapur, Sangli, and Satara, with traders even signing deals with farmers for export. The crop gets ready in around 90 days, with the deals inked right at the growth stage. Like Bhise, Varun Neharkar from Yedgaon also switched to cultivating sweet corn in a bid to earn more. Neharkar, who used to grow vegetables like beans and okra over five acres of holding, is now focused on cultivating sweet corn alone over the last two years. 'The crop was new. We had not seen it much in our area but when we saw the earning and its benefits, I decided to go for sweet corn,' he said. It has also led to other benefits for him. Earlier, Neharkar would go to the vegetable market in Mumbai but now traders come directly to his field. 'Overall, the popularity of the crop is on the rise,' he said. Partha Sarathi Biwas is an Assistant Editor with The Indian Express with 10+ years of experience in reporting on Agriculture, Commodities and Developmental issues. He has been with The Indian Express since 2011 and earlier worked with DNA. Partha's report about Farmers Producer Companies (FPC) as well long pieces on various agricultural issues have been cited by various academic publications including those published by the Government of India. He is often invited as a visiting faculty to various schools of journalism to talk about development journalism and rural reporting. In his spare time Partha trains for marathons and has participated in multiple marathons and half marathons. ... Read More
Time of India
13-06-2025
- Health
- Time of India
Case against couple for assaulting hospital staff in Mumbai for death of nephew
Mumbai: A couple has been slapped with a case for allegedly assaulting and abusing medical staff at Krantijyoti Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Hospital in Vikhroli following the death of their 15-year-old nephew. The accused, Raju Reddy and his wife, Sarita, residents of Mahatma Phule Nagar in Powai, were booked under the relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Maharashtra Prevention of Violence Against Medical Personnel Act, 2010. The teenager, Yuvraj Bhise from Vikhroli (West), was admitted to the ICU after a suicide attempt by hanging. Despite life-saving measures like oxygen and ventilator support, his condition worsened. Doctors advised the family to shift him to Sion hospital, but before that could happen Bhise's condition deteriorated further. According to the complaint by nurse Shital Sankpal, when Dr Vinod Uduli informed the family that transferring Bhise was no longer viable, Reddy and Sarita stormed into the ICU, abusing and physically attacking the staff. They allegedly pulled off masks, pushed personnel, and disrupted treatment efforts. Hospital staff had to forcibly remove them and secure the ICU. At 5.51 am, Bhise was declared dead, but the couple continued to cause a disturbance outside. Follow more information on Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad here . Get real-time live updates on rescue operations and check full list of passengers onboard AI 171 .
Time of India
24-05-2025
- Health
- Time of India
All charity hospitals in Pune told to implement MJPJAY health scheme
Pune: Charity commissioner, Maharashtra, has instructed all private charity hospitals in the state to become part of the Mahatma Jyotirao Phule Jan Arogya Yojana (MJPJAY) as soon as possible. The instruction comes after the death of Tanisha Bhise in April. It's alleged that Bhise, a resident of Pune, was denied emergency care at Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital where her family were allegedly asked to pay Rs 10 lakh before admission. Bhise, who was pregnant and in need of serious care, would die later at another hospital in the city. In Pune, there are many charity hospitals that are yet to join MJPJAY. During a meeting last week, the hospitals were told to sign up by the charity commissioner. Joint charity commissioner, Pune division, Rajni Kshirsagar, said: "State government has issued a government decision to implement MJPJAY and other schemes. Accordingly, all charitable hospitals in Pune have been directed to implement these schemes. Most of these hospitals have started the process. A review of this is being done through a meeting with the hospitals. " After Bhise's death, an inquiry committee was set up under the chairmanship of Kshirsagar. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like 2025 Top Trending local enterprise accounting software [Click Here] Esseps Learn More Undo This committee had recommended the implementation of MJPJAY and the 'National Child Health Programme', which provides free treatment to children up to the age of 18, at all charitable hospitals in the state. Based on those recommendations, the state Law and Justice Department issued a govt resolution on April 21, making it mandatory for charitable hospitals in the state to implement these schemes. MJPJAY and the Ayushman Bharat Yojana provide insurance coverage of up to Rs five lakhs to all the citizens in the state. There are 58 charitable hospitals in Pune region which includes hospitals in PMC, PCMC and Pune rural areas. In the state, there are 480 such hospitals. Under the state health schemes, a total of 1,240 treatments are subsidized or offered for free, ranging from emergency surgery in case of accidents to heart procedures. Also included are cancer treatments such as chemotherapy, radiation therapy, cancer surgery and brain and nervous system-related treatments and procedures. Along with these, kidney transplants, dialysis, orthopedic, stomach surgery, knee and hip replacements, gastrointestinal surgeries are treated free of cost.
