The Gauhati High Court has allowed prominent cardiac surgeon Dr Dhaniram Baruah to proceed with his research works which was barred by the state health minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma.
According to information, hearing a writ petition on Wednesday a bench of the court said the health department's order imposing restrictions on Dr Baruah was one sided.
It may be noted that addressing a recent press conference in the city, the minister threatened to arrest Dr Baruah if he fails to stop his research in the form of administering vaccine to to the human body. But Dr Baruah opined that he had already received permission in 2005 by the same department.
PermalinkSubmitted by A concerned hum... on Mon, 13/07/2009 - 08:21
It is not certain if Dhaniram Baruah has any knowledge of cancer research and treatment. I happened to meet and interact with the families of certain cancer patients who had sought treatment from him in a desperate endeavour to save their loved ones but it proved to be further detrimental to the lives of the patients. Today those families have nothing but regret, they say.
They state that there is no clarity as to what 'medicine' Dr Baruah administers. His institute is in the middle of a forest and travel to the city Guwahati) is very difficult. There are no trained nurses and the local village boys/girls inject the patients intravenously!!!
At the start when talks are on regarding admitting patients, the Dr and his assistant are extremely polite, appear very concerned, keep calling and enquiring about the health of the patient. However, once you are at the clinic, have done the payment and have admitted the patient, the behavior gradually changes. In fact when the patients complain of certain new symptoms, the Dr clearly states ' we don’t treat those'. Well if you don’t or cannot, for whatever reason, why do you ask for the patients to be brought to you in the 1st place.
The charges are very high and the quality of the treatment and related facilities are substandard. There are 400 stray dogs in the ram shackled campus. These dogs, as the doctor claims, are extremely significant for his research efforts.
Sources say that he appears confused and unsure about symptoms that develop in terminal patients. Subsequently he becomes thoroughly insensitive to the needs of such patients. None of the patients/ relatives can go to him claiming any compensation or file any compliant against him, as he ensures that documents are signed at the start as well as the time of leaving the institute disclaiming him from any responsibility . No doubt, patients come to him for treatment- and a lot of cancer patients too- but this appears to be more out of a mixture of hope and despair( as in the case of the families that have spoken to me) There is no properly and thoroughly documented case regarding a successful treatment procedure. No patient reports have ever been shared with families.
Dr Dhaniram Baruah may have been a very good heart surgeon and his contribution to the field of cardiac surgery may be immense, however, that is where it ends. As far as cancer is concerned there is no clarity or transparency about his treatment process. Unless he is able to clearly display the properties of the medication he uses and prove their effectiveness, he should not be encouraging patients to come to him for treatment.
Security forces seized a huge quantity of ganja, weighing more than 80 kgs from the Guwahati Railway station on Saturday.
Patrolling railway police personnel recovered ten packets of the contraband, worth Rs 3 lakh, from a compartment of the Alipurduar-Mariani Passenger train.
In another incident, police recovered 16 packets of ganja, worth about Rs six lakhs, from the guards room of the railway station and took into custody the Guardsman Chandiram Bodo.
BJP and All India United Democratic Front have slammed the Union Budget 2012-13 a day after it was presented by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee in Parliament on Friday.
Talking to reporters, BJP MP Ramen Deka said that the Centre should declare a separate time zone for the northeast for increasing the pace of development and work efficiency in the region. Party MP Romen Deka raised the issue of a separate time zone for the northeast under rule 377 on March 14. Deka told a press conference here on Saturday that there was nothing significant for the northeast in the budget and the increase in taxes would cause problems to the common people.
AIUDF president caterogically termed the Union Budget as anti-poor. Talking to reporters on Saturday, he said that the new taxes were going to hurt the common people. He said that the budget has nothing for the common people, and the poor are going to be hit hard. According to him, at a time when the Brahmaputra was creating havoc in the form of floods and erosion, there was a high expectation in Assam Assam that the finance minister would come out with special measures for the state.
He further said that even President Pratibha Patil's address had no mention of flood and erosion problem.
The much-hyped NRC update process is expected to begin from July. The exercise is set to take place in two in three phase from Sadiya.
This was disclosed during a meeting of the ministerial panel and some organizations including AASU. Panel head Prithvi Majhi who chaired the meeting admitted the major demands raised by these orgasnizations. The NRC update forms would have birth place. The update is set to take place from Sadiya in three phases.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has stressed poverty alleviation with gainful self-employment and skilled wage employment opportunities.
Addressing the General Body meeting of the Assam State Rural Livelihoods Mission Society on Saturday, Gogoi said that importance would be on providing them access to credit, marketing and other livelihood services to facilitate their upward mobility. He said that ASRLMS would implement the NRLM, the redesigned and restructured programme of Swarnajayanti Gram Swaroajgar Yojana (SGSY) to bail out the rural BPL families.
Union Rural Development Ministry's Joint Secretary T Vijay Kumar called for focused attention on building grassroots capacity to...
The Kaziranga National park got more forest camps. The forest camp inside the abode of one horn rhino has gone up to 152.
The camps would be manned by 6 to 7 guards each of whom will be armed with sophisticated weapons.
Moreover, 170 armed security guards have been deployed inside the national park, a world heritage site, along with personnel from Assam Forest Protection Force.
Local residents in Jakhalabandha town held 75 suspected Bangladeshi immigrants on Saturday after they arrived in the railway station from Dhubri.
The suspected Bangladeshi nationals were coming from Dhubri by the Dhubri-Silghat passenger express which reached Jakhalabandha station in the morning.
When asked, they failed to submit any valid document and later admitted that they were on their way to Kuthori near the Kaziranga National Park.
Sixty members of the group, including a female have been detained at the Jakhalabandha police station. Fifteen others have been released.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Saturday seemed not happy with the Union budget tabled in Parliament on Friday.
Talking to reporters in Guwahati on Saturday, Gogo said that there is no such major announcement for the state. But he was in a fix when the media people repeatedly asked him how the UPA government has virtually donwplayed the interest of Assam. The rail budget is not an exception.
Day long screening of award-winning Assamese Films, organized by Assam association Delhi in association with enajori.com and Pooberun. All are invited.
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4. Divided Soul : Directed by Dip Bhuyan
5. Their Story : Directed by Reema Borah
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Police arrested notorious drug kingpin Elahi Sheikh from his residence in the Chandmari area of Guwahati on Friday.
Acting on a tip-off, police raided Sheikh's house and caught him along with a huge consignment of drugs. Police claimed to have found brown sugar weighing over 1 kg in his possession. Two drug peddlers - Bhutu Ali and Nazir Ali - were also arrested along with him.
Sheikh, who is considered the kingpin of the racket in the entire upper Assam region, parts of neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland, has been escaping police.
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