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 recovered a huge cache of arms and explosives in Cachar district on Saturday.
These were seized from a house during a joint search operation at Harinadik village under Badarpur circle in Karimganj. During the search operation, the team recovered a country-made carbine weapon and two packets of suspected Improvised Explosive Device connected with wires from the house of Abdul Rouf and Mujibur Rahman. Later, recovered arms were handed over to the police for necessary action.
A stunned Cachar district administration discussed the situation prevailing in the Bhuvan Valley Tea Garden after reports of starvation deaths.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has asked additional Chief Secretary P K Choudhury to to conduct an inquiry into the alleged starvation deaths. Joint Director from health department Dr Bijoylakshmi Das who visited the affected tea garden said in the meeting that mostly aged people have died and many residents of the garden were suffering from malnutrition.
The garden administration refused to divulge the name of the owners of the estate and the Additional Chief Secretary issued directives that the names of the owners should be immediately provided...
The Garo National Liberation Army has released a senior State Bank of India official they kidnapped on February in East Garo Hills on Saturday.
According to information, the SBI assistant general manager VK Gupta was freed in Krishnai in Goalpara district 17 days after he was was kidnapped by four unidentified men from the Chotamatia area.
VK Gupta was kidnapped on February 20 while he was on his way to Assam after auditing at the bank's Mendipathar branch.
The Board of Secondary Education, Assam on Saturday revised the schedule for the on gong HSLC examination hours after the question paper anomalies in Nalbari district.
In a statement, the Board has informed that the general science examination would be held on March 26 instead of March 10.
Notably, a section of examinees in Samota HS School on Saturday received question papers of general science instead of social science. The SEBA has further ordered a probe into it and suspended the officer in charge of the examination Centre.
Suspected KPLT militants kidnapped Assam Chief Conservator of Forest Abhijit Rabha with a range officer on Saturday in Karbi Anglong district. The militants have demanded a ransom of Rs 1 crore for their safe release.
According to information, Rabha was leading a delegation of 60 members to the Singhasan Hills to conduct a forest department survey on February 27. Some of them returned on February 29.
The incident took place when the remaining 30 members were returning on Saturday after they were stopped by six armed KPLT militants at Borlag.
The two officers were abducted while the rest to leave, the SP added. The militants later sent a message demanding a ransom of Rs one crore for...
Over ten local organizations in Dibrugarh have threatened to stop the gas cracker works if the CISF personnel responsible for Friday firing escapes action within 36 hours.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has already asked additional deputy commissioner PK Rajkhowa to probe the incident of firing where a worker died and three others have been injured when CISF personnel opened fire to disperse a group of striking workers at the project gate. A compensation of Rs 2 lakh would also be paid to the next of kin of the person killed and job provided to one member of the victim’s family in the project. Industry Minister Pradyut Bordoloi and Labour Minister Prithbi Majhi have rushed to the...
Security forces in Dibrugarh district seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition were on Saturday.
Acting on a tip-off, troops of 18 Jat Regiment conducted a search operation at Kochunio village and recovered the arms from an abandoned house. The arms recovered include two pistols, three grenades, one revolver, explosives and several rounds of ammunition.
The situation in Lepetkota is still on the boil a day after a worker died in firing.
Thousands of workers are striking work on Saturday demanding action against the CISF personnel responsible for the shoot out where a worker died and three others sustained injury. The authorities at the BCPL project site have been trying to reach the agitating workers who have been refusing to resume work.
The severed head found in Kamakhya has been identified as Mujibur Rahman who was remaining traceless for the last couple of days. He was missing on his way to his wife in Sipajhar. The remaining part of his body has yet to be recovered.
Two persons sustained bullet injury at a sensational incident of robbery in Jorhat on Saturday. The incident took place at around 1PM at the Chinamora Level Crossing near the town when two armed youths opened fire at a Bolero vehicle on its way to a tea garden with an amount of Rs 11 lakh.
After halting the vehicle the miscreants looted the entire amount brought for disbursing the labourer payments at the Kharikotiya Tea Estate. Then they fled from the spot. Accounts officer of the tea garden and the driver were rushed to the Jorhat Medical College Hospital.
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