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Time of India
a day ago
- Health
- Time of India
MRI facility opened at LNJP Hospital
Patna: Health minister Mangal Pandey on Monday inaugurated the MRI facility at Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan (LNJP) Hospital in Rajvanshinagar, Patna. The service will be available to the general public from July 8 at a rate 6% lower than that prescribed by the CGHS. The minister said the facility was developed at a cost of Rs 7.5 crore. Pandey also announced that the country's largest 400-bed neuro and orthopaedic hospital, being constructed in Patna, would be ready within the next two months. The hospital is being built at an estimated cost of Rs 215 crore. "A dedicated sports injury unit will also be launched soon," he said. D igha MLA Sanjeev Chaurasia was present at the event. Pandey said under the Ayushman Bharat scheme, patients at LNJP Hospital receive free treatment worth Rs 1.5 crore annually. He also extended his best wishes to LNJP director Dr Subhash Chandra on his retirement. "He has served the public diligently as a doctor for the past 18 years," the minister said.
United News of India
6 days ago
- Politics
- United News of India
Will Congress apologise for strangling Constitution during Emergency: BJP MP Prasad
Mumbai, June 25 (UNI) Senior BJP leader and former Union minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad, today recounted the atrocities committed during the Emergency in 1975, saying that the Congress had turned the entire country into a prison and tortured opposition activists during the period and sought to know will its leaders apologise for the same. Addressing a press conference here organised to commemorate 50 years of the Emergency, he said that one-and-a-half lakh people were arrested across the country during the Emergency, including all the leaders of the major opposition parties like Jan Sangh and Samajwadi Party. Among them was Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan who was kept in jail in Haryana, he recalled and said that Morarji Desai was also kept in the same jail. No one was allowed to meet the two leaders, he said. RSS volunteers and Jana Sangh workers were physically tortured in jail, he alleged. Prasad further alleged that the Constitution was strangled by making several amendments during the Emergency and wondered will Congress leaders apologise for turning the entire country into a prison and torturing opposition activists during the Emergency, and for forcibly performing sterilisation surgeries and atrocities on the common people. He said that 253 journalists were arrested during the Emergency, out of them, 110 journalists were arrested under the MISA Act, 110 under the Protection of Information Act and 33 were arrested under other serious offences, he added. UNI SP SS
