सरकारी जाहिराती

तांबी वगैरे ६५ सालातली.एक टारगट पोरगा "लुपवति " म्हणायचा.रायगड जिल्ह्यातल्या भिंतींवर मध्यंतरी "शौचालय ज्याच्या घरी। लक्ष्मी तेथे वास करी ।।"

"गप्पी मासे पाळा हिवताप टाळा" ही अशीच एक सर्वत्र दिसनारी घोषणा. यातला गप्पी हा गप्पा शब्दाच्या जवळ जाणारा शब्द हा guppy असा इंग्रजी शब्द असून ते माशांच्या प्रजातीचे नाव आहे हे मला अगदी काल परवा कळले.

असो!!!

"हेल्मेटसक्ती देखील जनतेच्या हितासाठी की हेल्मेट विक्रेते आणि उत्पादकांच्या हितासाठी आहे असा प्रश्न पडतो." हेल्मेट सक्तीचा फायदा विक्रेते आणि उत्पादकासाठी होत असला तरी हेल्मेट घालणाऱ्याचे देखील प्राण वाचलेले मी पाहिले आहेत त्यामुळे इतर कोणाचा फायदा होवो न होवो, घालणाऱ्याचे प्राण वाचले तिथेच सरकारी जाहिरातीचा उद्देश सफल झाला असे आपण म्हणू शकतो.

पाणी गाळा, नारु टाळा. हे वाक्य अनेक मोठ्या जलवाहिन्यांच्या पाइप्सवर लिहलेले वाचले आहे ! हेल्मेटसक्ती देखील जनतेच्या हितासाठी की हेल्मेट विक्रेते आणि उत्पादकांच्या हितासाठी आहे असा प्रश्न पडतो. ज्यांना आत्मसुरक्षा महत्वाची आहे, हे कळत नाही त्यांनी हेल्मेट सक्तीच्या नावाने शंख करण्यास हरकत नाही ! फार पुर्वी एक जाहिरात लागायची ज्यात एक पैलवान मोठ्या हातोड्याने नारळ फोडतो, तो फुटतो. तोच नारळ एका हेल्मेटच्या आत मधे ठेवून त्या हेल्मेटवर घाव घातला जातो...अर्थातच नारळ तसाच राहतो. मदनबाण..... आजची स्वाक्षरी :- नटसम्राट... { असा नट होणे नाही ! }

छत्तीसगड मृत्यू आणि सत्य According to Geeta Sethi, Secretary General of the Family Planning Association of India, "There is a high demand for family planning services of various kinds, but are we providing the most relevant quality service to those who need it? Are we doing it in a way that makes it is safest or that is real quality? Do we look at any underlying conditions whether it is anaemia, diabetes, heart problems, address those first and then give them a choice of different contraceptive technologies that they can use or are we just pushing them into no preparation, no follow up. Thus there is neither continuity of the service nor quality of the care that we give them. The symptoms of the hospitalised women are not pointing to a single specific cause. Did a bacterium take on a virulent form and infect the patients as is the case with hospital acquired infections? The 'jugaad' approach at camps does not allow for sterile conditions. There was clearly a supply-demand dysfunctionalism. At the heart of the problem is a desperate shortage of gynaecologists in rural areas, and vacancies galore in government hospitals. In Barwani in Madhya Pradesh, for instance, of the seven community health centres in the district, only one has a gynaecologist. (Source:DLHS 3) That's the reason why more women are sterilised by fewer doctors. With 83 women reaching the Pendari camp, there was clearly pressure on Dr RK Gupta, the laparascopic surgeon. However, what are unacceptable are compromises on quality and safety of care and the lack of monitoring by a committee at the grass-root level. The sterilisation procedures at Pendari flouted Supreme Court orders that allow a maximum of 30 operations a day with two separate laparoscopes. A single surgeon performed three times the permissible number in less than five hours. Analysts say it is a misconception that the family planning programme's targets are responsible for the situation. Any well planned programme will have targets. The problem lies in the fact that the targets did not put pressure on the Government to provide for better infrastructure for poor people. Dr Arvind Shukla, pediatrician at the Bilaspur district hospital, said, "So many patients are being treated at so many camps at so many places. This is known to everybody, from the DHO, CMO, secretaries. Why did the Government not take any action?" "This is not the doctor's fault. The surgical technique was correct. Nobody died because of the surgeon's mistake. People died by infection of the body by a very lethal content." The administration has responded to the tragedy by indulging in a blame game. There was no clinching evidence, yet the surgeon was arrested and the chief medical officer dismissed from service. The chief medical officer, RK Bhange, was appointed two months ago. He says he had no information about the camp at Pendari. According to the surgeon, he is a cog in the government's health structure. At a protest rally organised by the Indian Medical Association, his colleagues at Bilaspur's district hospital demanded his release from jail. And then came reports of drug contamination. An oral medication Ciprocin 500 manufactured by a local company was said to have been the cause. Sonamani Borah, Bilaspur Divisional Commissioner, said, "We found out that there is a strong suspicion of zinc phosphide poisoning. We have already sent the drugs used for the sterilisation operations and the Government has already banned six drugs which were used during these operations, and batch-wise." A few days after the women died, some people developed similar complications after taking the same drug. Two men died of drug toxicity. The others were hospitalised. They had gone to a private doctor for minor ailments. Says Borah, "We have seized 43 lakh tablets. Our local level investigations have confirmed that it is zinc phosphide but we will have to wait for the final report from the national lab. As of now the owner of the pharmaceutical company is behind bars and the government has already lodged an FIR under Sections 420 and 34." The irony is that two years ago, the Government had filed a case against the company and banned seven medicines. Clearly there is violation of rules and procedures for procurement of drugs. The Government has announced a judicial inquiry. The report is scheduled to come out after three months. The lapses at various levels indicate that despite standards being set, guidelines were not followed. There is lack of training and supervision to ensure people do what they are supposed to do. This tragedy is an opportunity for the Government to rebuild the fragile public health system, to improve its efficiency, equity and effectiveness. http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/india-matters-chhattisgarh-sterilisation…

साबण बनवताना बाय प्रॉडक्ट म्हणून तयार झालेले आयोडाइज्ड मीठ कसे खपवावे? कोणत्या साबणाच्या प्रक्रियेत आयोडीन युक्त मीठ तयार होते हे आपण सांगू शकाल काय? १० रुपयापासून (जास्त) ७५ ग्राम साबण मिळतो (१३० रुपये किलो) आणि ६ रुपयाला १ किलो मीठ मिळते. समुद्रातून मिळणारे मीठ हे २ रुपये किलोने मिळते हे शुद्ध करून वापरण्या ऐवजी कोणती कंपनी असा नुकसानीची व्यवहार करेल. साबणाच्या प्रक्रियेतून मीठ मिळवणे हा शुद्ध आतबट्ट्याचा व्यवहार होईल. मिठामध्ये आयोडीन घालावे हि जागतिक आरोग्य संघटनेची शिफारस आहे. WHO recommendations All food-grade salt, used in household and food processing should be fortified with iodine as a safe and effective strategy for the prevention and control of iodine deficiency disorders in populations living in stable and emergency settings. याबद्दलच्या वादात मी पडू इच्छित नाही. http://www.who.int/elena/titles/salt_iodization/en/

आपल्या इथे शौचालयाची पण जाहिरात करावी लागते , याचेच दुःख आहे. बिच्चारी विद्या !

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