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Hans India
3 days ago
- Health
- Hans India
297 new day care cancer centres approved for FY26: Centre
The Union government has informed that Parliament has approved 297 new day care cancer centres across the country for FY26. In a written reply in the Lok Sabha, Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Prataprao Jadhav stated the measures undertaken by the government in tackling cancer incidences in the country. In the Union Budget announced in February, the government had proposed that 'all district hospitals will have day care cancer centres. About 200-day care cancer centres will be established in 2025-26". The day-care centres are aimed at providing chemotherapy -- an important part of cancer treatment -- to cancer patients. "Following the announcement in the Union Budget 2025-26, so far, 297 new day care cancer centres have been approved for the financial year 2025-26. These centres aim to provide follow-up chemotherapy for patients referred by tertiary care centres,' Jadhav said. 'Unit cost for establishment of day care cancer centres may be up to Rs 1.49 crores as per the requirement and gaps at that facility,' he added. Currently, there are 364 such centres across the country. Further, the Minister noted that the government has set up "19 State Cancer Institutes (SCI) and 20 Tertiary Care Cancer Centres (TCCC) in different parts of the country' under the National Programme for Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases (NP-NCD). The Centre also provides financial assistance to these centres for the procurement of radiotherapy equipment, diagnostic equipment, surgical equipment, and enhancement of indoor civil work and patient facilities for cancer and such other purposes relevant to diagnosis, treatment, and care of cancer. 'The maximum permissible assistance for SCI is Rs. 120 crores and for TCCC is Rs 45 crores,' Jadhav said. The National Cancer Institute at Jhajjar (Haryana) and the second campus of Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute, Kolkata, have been set up to provide advanced diagnostic and treatment facilities. Cancer treatment facilities have also been approved in all 22 new All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). In addition, a population-based initiative for screening, management, and prevention of common NCDs, including cancer, has been rolled out as a part of Comprehensive Primary Health Care in the country under National Health Mission (NHM) through Ayushman Arogya Mandirs. In a bid to boost cancer care in the country, the government has also enhanced cancer education. Jadhav stated that the National Medical Commission has taken steps for ease of starting Postgraduate (PG) courses, including for Oncology. 'One can start a PG course with two seats, even with two faculties, without having a senior resident. In many specialties, bed requirements for unit formation have been reduced,' the MoS said. 'Medical colleges/ institutes can apply for starting PG course one year after medical college has been permitted to start an undergraduate course; and government medical colleges can start PG course simultaneously with UG course,' the Minister added.
Yahoo
01-07-2025
- Yahoo
No Firefighter Is Surprised by What Just Happened in Idaho
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. On Sunday, 20-year-old Wess Roley, it's alleged, started a wildfire near Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, then lay in wait for firefighters to respond. When they did, he apparently opened fire, killing Kootenai County Fire and Rescue Chief Frank Harwood and Coeur d'Alene Fire Department Battalion Chief John Morrison. He also critically wounded Coeur d'Alene Fire Department engineer David Tysdal. Roley was found dead, with a shotgun by his side, later that day. The attack dominated headlines, becoming a global story and immediately sparking political tribal skirmishes on social media. The enormous interest makes sense. It's a horrible tragedy. We expect this kind of thing when it comes to police officers or other professionals for whom violence is a tool of the trade. Hearing that other crisis responders, especially firefighters, who are unarmed and there only to help, have come under fire could be shocking. But not to me, and not, I suspect, to other firefighters. Last year, almost to the day, I gathered together in a sweltering high school auditorium with about 50 firefighters, EMTs, and a small cadre of cops to undergo rescue task force training, which focuses on how civilian personnel, like firefighters, can partner with armed law enforcement to render critical aid to victims in a mass-casualty incident. The training was highly effective, emphasizing command and control, triage, trauma life support, and casualty evacuation. It lasted just a few hours and was packed with critical information, so I tried to pay close attention. I'll admit that I did have to put in some effort. Because, for the most part, I'd already been through it when I took Tactical Combat Casualty Care training before deploying to Iraq in 2007. While tweaked somewhat to deal with a domestic incident (such as dealing with distraught parents during a school shooting), the Venn diagram for the two trainings was almost a circle. Indeed, the idea that responders to shooting incidents, whether armed or unarmed, should undergo TCCC training is an element of the 2013 Hartford Consensus. This was a kind of national throwing up of the hands that accepted that shootings could not be stopped, and shifted focus to a more effective response, recommending that responders adopt a tripartite mission when time is of the essence: 1) Stop the killing, 2) stop the dying, and 3) save as many as you can. The Hartford Consensus contains elements of a variety of mass casualty programs, including Federal Emergency Management Agency, emergency medical services protocols, advanced trauma life support, Stop the Bleed, and Tactical Emergency Casualty Care, the civilian equivalent of TCCC. The protocols of the instruction were so eerily similar to my Iraq pre-deployment training as to evoke intense déjà vu, and not just in terms of the triage discussion—the brutal calculus wherein first responders make the impossible decision to focus overstretched resources on those who are most likely to be saved, with the tacit understanding that there are those who will have to wait, perhaps interminably, for help. I also recognized the trauma life support measures, from tourniquet application, to the instruction in how to correctly vent a sucking chest wound, to the direction to use an elbow, shoulder, or knee to apply pressure to a convex surface. We covered wound packing (stuffing the hole with the Curlex rolled gauze we habitually carried in Iraq for that purpose in the hopes of stopping bleeding), dealing with clotting powder, and stabilizing victims for transport. But the most striking commonality was the way this training taught unarmed first responders to move with armed operators in the 'warm zone,' an area where the active shooter was not immediately present but where a shooting threat could still manifest. Rescue task force guidance stridently reinforced the lesson that unarmed civilian firefighters like me would be required to move in the warm zone to assist with all of the duties required above, necessarily placing us at risk of … well … getting shot. As a hedge against this possibility, law enforcement officers would be assigned to our contact team with the duty of protecting us and engaging any suspects who opened fire. As a targeting officer (a kind of tactical intelligence analyst) in Iraq, I was armed, but using that weapon was not my job. I carried it as a last resort. Instead, I relied on the 'hard operators' in my team to keep me safe, knowing that if they fell, I had at least a means of holing up and shooting it out with the enemy until the quick reaction force could extract me. Much of the training I received before deploying to Iraq centered on how I could move and integrate with hard operators in my team, staying out of their way until I was needed. This instruction reflects the reality of rising levels of violence directed at firefighters. There are the instances when we have to respond to active shooter incidents, but also, there are the times people shoot at or assault us, as happened in Coeur d'Alene. In 2023 Drexel University's Center for Firefighter Injury Research and Safety Trends noted a 69 percent increase in assaults on firefighters from 2021 to 2022 (from 350 to 593). Many of these incidents occur during medical calls, rather than fire responses. And this number may be an undercount, as FIRST looked only at those incidents reported in the media. I can personally attest that in the hypermasculine and stoic culture of the fire service, a minor assault that didn't result in injury or generate media attention could easily go unremarked on. Indeed, in the District of Columbia in 2023, the firefighters union complained of an increase in assaults against firefighters, describing the attacks as occurring 'fairly often.' The problem isn't confined to the United States. Three-quarters of German firefighters experienced some form of public violence during a response as of February of this year. A recent assault on a Canadian firefighter prompted changes to the criminal code to include firefighters and emergency medical services, and a small town in British Columbia authorized 15,000 Canadian dollars to purchase body armor for firefighters after an attack. While the impact of warfare is obviously a separate scenario, I would be remiss not to note the terrible toll Russia's invasion of Ukraine is taking on European firefighters. Numbers from the U.K. show that the figures are even worse for EMS responders, with whom firefighters usually work closely. The critical question is: why? The answer is complex, evolving, and desperately in need of attention. Spiraling distrust of institutions is an obvious culprit, and the tight bond between fire and police services, who often share resources, means that tensions in the rapport between the public and police are reflected on anyone showing up to a crisis with a uniform on. Then there's the increase in mental health–related calls, which frequently put firefighters in situations in which they are dealing with potentially unstable and reactive individuals like Roley, with the corresponding potential for violent outcomes. But the bottom line is that we don't know why this is happening, only that it is. The American fire service is largely dependent on volunteers and is already under increasing stress from climate change, a decline in volunteerism, and shifting technological demands. Violence against firefighters will only make this worse and may affect the decisionmaking of the people on which the entire system depends. I'm not getting paid for this—why am I risking my life? is a question Americans contemplating volunteering may be forgiven for asking. Given the trends, it's a question for which we owe them an answer. The time for formal, funded, and organized study of the reasons for violence against crisis responders is now.
The Hindu
19-06-2025
- Health
- The Hindu
Jipmer launches state-of-the-art disaster response facility with BHISHM Cube
Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (Jipmer) has launched a state-of-the-art mobile unit that aims to significantly raise the levels of disaster preparedness. The facility, established with the BHISHM (Bharat Health Initiative for Sahyog, Hita and Maitri) Cube, is designed to provide swift and comprehensive care during natural and man-made disasters, a press note said. The initiative, under the Arogya Maitri Project of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, represents a committed effort to enhance healthcare resilience and emergency response, especially in regions vulnerable to large-scale emergencies such as those in southern India, Jipmer said. The BHISHM Cube is equipped with a wide array of life-saving tools, including defibrillators, portable ultrasound, infusion pumps, surgical and anaesthesia stations, blood and fluid warming systems, and advanced triage modules. The Cube represents a convergence of cutting-edge medical technology, strategic mobility, and humanitarian intent. Each cube is compact, weighing under 20 kg, and can be manually transported or deployed using drones, boats, or vehicles. Built on Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) and Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) protocols, the BHISHM Cube is engineered to function with minimal reliance on existing infrastructure, allowing rapid deployment even in the most challenging terrains. Two mother cubes form a full trauma response brick, capable of supporting up to 200 casualties and providing treatment within the golden hour—a critical factor in saving lives during disasters. According to the press note, Jipmer would be hosting two such sets of cubes in its disaster stockpile. The facility was inaugurated at a function on Wednesday held at the SuperSpecialty Block annexe in the presence of A. Kulothungan, District Collector, V. Ravichandran, Director of Health and Family Welfare Services, and Vir Singh Negi, Director of Jipmer, along with other dignitaries. In this connection, a detailed presentation of BHISHM Cube's capabilities was led by Tanmay Roy, retired Chief Surgeon of the Armed Forces of India, in collaboration with the technical team from HLL Lifecare Limited, the implementing agency for the project. The presentation offered insight into the Cube's modular design, medical capabilities, and operational readiness, and provided hands-on training to the attending doctors, nurses, and disaster management personnel. A team of four doctors and two nurses nominated by the Health Department, along with officers deputed from the State Disaster Management Cell, participated in the operational demo. The demonstration aimed at not only showcasing the clinical and logistical strengths of the Cube but also at laying the foundation for local capacity building and disaster readiness, the press note said.
Time of India
23-04-2025
- Health
- Time of India
Tertiary cancer care centre at GMC to cost Rs 310 crore
Panaji: The state cabinet on Wednesday granted approval for the construction of the tertiary cancer care centre (TCCC) at the Goa Medical College (GMC) at a cost of Rs 310 crore. The proposal from the GMC dean for the construction of the TCCC at an estimated cost of Rs 247 crore was approved by the Expenditure Finance Committee (EFC). The council of ministers, at the cabinet meeting held on July 6, 2022, accorded ex-post facto approval for entrusting the work of the TCCC to Hospital Services Consultancy Corporation (India) Ltd. The estimate prepared by HSCC for the construction of the TCCC was Rs 150.4 crore, excluding the cost of equipment and including the cost of civil construction, internal services, external development, PHE and firefighting, electrical, HVAC, special services, furniture, and IT services with reference to approved building plans. The cost towards the procurement of medical equipment was Rs 96 crore. Additionally, there would be a recurring cost of approximately Rs 13 crore per annum towards wages/salaries and maintenance costs for the TCCC. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Discover Affordable Medical Insurance Options for Seniors in the Philippines 2025 LocalPlan Search Now Undo The cabinet note stated that, as per the comments and suggestions of the Tata Memorial Centre team, the floor plans have been revised. Due to the addition of a floor and modifications in the plan, the total built-up area has changed from 20,380 sqm (original approved plan) to 28,940 sqm. The revised cost for construction will be Rs 213.7 crore, including consultancy charges. As per the suggestions of the Tata Memorial Centre team, the cabinet approved the revised plan due to the addition of one floor and modifications in the plan of the proposed project, for an amount of Rs 310 crore.
