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.
Four persons have been injured when a fully grown leopard attacked them after storming into a residential area in Guwahati on Saturday.
The leopard ran into a house on the Nabagraha Road in Silphukhuri area at around 12-30 in the afternoon. Immediately after it the leopard attacked four persons one after another. Many others managed to escape. The injured persons were rushed to GMCH. Later the leopard was taken for observation at the Assam State Zoo in Guwahati.
Six policemen were killed in a tragic accident in Mongoldoi on Saturday. The accident took place at around 6 in the morning when their vehicle collided head on with a bus on National Highway 52.
According to information, the policemen were travelling from Barpeta towards Dalgaon when the accident took place at Punia, killing all of them on the spot. The deceased were identified sub-inspector Surendra Nath Bora, constables Lwmsraw Boro, Arun Kumar Singh, Gunindra Bora, Sobin Rabha and driver Moinul Haque.
The United Liberation Front of Asom on Friday has backed Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi’s son Gaurav Gogoi for his efforts to give Assam a fresh lease of life on vital fronts.
In an email statement to media, the outfit’s Publicity manager Arunodoy Dohotiya thanked the efforts of the chief minister’s son to open the flood gate of foreign experts to carry out seminars in the state’s educational institutes. Dohotiya called it an effort to develop Assam economy. He said that the state no dearth of potential to develop on all fronts.
The Assam government is set to handover the sensational Anil Mazumdar murder case to the Central Bureau of Investigation three years after the gruesome incident rocked the state.
According to information, the Criminal Investigation department probing the case has been failing to make any breakthrough and that’s why, the case is likely to be handed over to the investigation agency. Majumdar, the journalist who owned a vernacular daily in Guwahati was shot dead by unidentified gunmen just in front of his residence three years back.
The United Liberation Front of Asom is preparing a massive blueprint to strike in the run up to the Republic Day forcing the government to fan security forces across the state.
According to sources, the banned insurgent outfit’s anti-talk faction is likely to target the Hindi-speaking people in some pockets of upper Assam. This is apart from a string of attacks at vital bridges, oil and gas installations.
The government has sounded a high alert in upper Assam following intelligence inputs of possible attack on OIL and ONGC officials along with some politicians during the run-up to Republic Day. The soft targets are likely the outside officials.
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At least 30 workers sustained injury when the bridge they were building collapsed in Dhemaji district on Friday. The incident took place at around three in the afternoon where eleven of the seriously injured workers were shifted to the Assam Medical College Hospital in Dibrugarh.
The bridge linking Dhemaji with Dibrugarh collapsed when around 120 workers were engaged in construction work by Riterning Engineering. Altogether 11 workers have been rushed to the Assam medical College Hospital in Dibrugarh while others were shifted to Dhemaji and Chilapathar hospitals. Local residents blamed the construction company for sub standard work.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Friday said that normalcy was back to Assam. Addressing the Seventh North East Business Summit in New Delhi, the Assam Chief Minister said that his state government has taken the lead in restoring peace in the region.
According to him, “Committed initiatives have led to significant reduction in violence in the state so much so that land prices in the State in the past decade have gone through the roof."
He said the importance of focused marketing of the North East to garner requisite investor interest. Agriculture, food processing, mining and minerals especially, tourism, cement and bamboo represent some of the sectors where Assam boasts...
The third edition of the Pragjyoti International Dance Festival will be held on February 2, 3 and 4. This festival, over the last few years, has won accolades from dance connoisseurs all over the world for acting as a major platform for the promotion of young talents and for acting as a space for social and cultural convergence. Dancers from different parts of India and abroad (Bangladesh, Nepal, Japan, Russia, U.K and U.S) had taken part in the last two editions of the festival. The Pragjyoti International Dance Festival is organized by Guwahati-based Kalpa.
Festival coordinator Anwesa Mahanta, a noted dancer herself, said, “This year young dance exponents from all the major...
Union home minister P Chidambaram on Friday said that normalcy is back to Assam and other northeastern states. Inaugurating the North East Business Summit in Delhi on Friday he said that the entire region was free from conflict. He said the insurgent outfits, mostly, have come forward for talks. He appealed to the top industrialists to invest in the region. DoNER minister Pawan Singh Ghatowar and Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi were prominent among those who attended the function.
A brainstorming round of talks between govenment has failed to break the deadlock over the NHPC-owned big dams in Gerukamukh.
Talking to KMSS, AASU, AJYCP and AJYCP delegations in Dispur on Thursday the group of ministers refused to force Arunachal Pradesh to stop construction.
The government would hold talks with the experts and prominent citizens on January 14. The protestors would decide the next course of action only after that.
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