THE TIMES OF INDIA, AHMEDABAD MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2015 3TIMES
CITY
Ahmedabad: In a third inci-dent of murder in Vatvasince past two
months, a 55-year-old woman was stabbedto death. Sammariya Kush-wa,
a resident of Vatva, wasstabbed in the head andstomach. After the
murderthe body was abandonednear Vinzol railway crossingin Vatva.
Police found thebody on Sunday morning.
Vatva has witnessedthree gruesome murderssince beginning of this
year.A builder Mukesh Patel wasshot dead in January while ateenage
girl was clubbed todeath about a fortnight agoin the area.
Vatva police have regis-tered a case of murder on ba-sis of the
complaint lodgedby Sammariyas son Rajku-mar Kushwa. Sammariyause to
stay with Rajkumar asshe had separated from herhusband who now
resides inUttar Pradesh, said inspec-tor of Vatva police
stationJaideep Sarvaiya.
She used to work at a pri-vate factory in Vatva GIDCand lived
with her youngerson Rakishan at Anmol Vi-har society in Vatva, said
apolice source.
Police officials said Kush-was elder son who also used
to live with the victim hadjust separated and was resid-ing with
his family in anoth-er house in the same area.
Inspector Sarvaiya saidKushwa went for work at thefactory on
Saturday. She didnot return till evening. Raj-kumar searched for
her inthe area but could not findher. However in the morningVatva
police got a messagethat a body of woman is lyingabandoned near
Vinzol rail-way crossing in the area.
We rushed to the spotand found that there werestab wounds on the
head andstomach of the woman. Wedo not suspect loot or rape asthe
motive behind the grue-some murder. We believethat Kushwa was
killed as aresult of internal feudamong the family,
addedSarvaiya.
55-year-oldwoman stabbedto death in Vatva
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Ahmedabad: Jaisukh Patel, 34,resident of Amarnathsociety in
Naroda, wascaught by local peoplewhen tried to tease amarried woman
bycatching her hand andoffering her a lift onhis bike. Patel
washanded over to Narodapolice who arrestedhim after booking
himunder legal sectionsfor molestation.
Sources in the police said Pa-tel, who was on his bike
ap-proached, a , 27-year-old married
woman who, along with her sister-in-law, was purchasing
vegetablesin the area.
Patel caught thewomans hand and of-fered her lift. However,
asthe woman raised analarm, local peoplerushed to her help
andcaught Patel. Patel wasthrashed by the peopleand then handed
over tous, said a cop from Naro-da police station.
Naroda police saidthey are verifying the an-
tecedents of Patel as they suspectthat he may be a habitual
offenderwho has been caught earlier also.
Man tries to force woman onto his bike; thrashed, arrested
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Ahmedabad: An 85-year oldwoman has registered a com-plaint with
Ellisbridge police fortheft of cash and valuablesworth Rs 5.68 lakh
from her resi-dence in Ambawadi.
According to Ellisbridge po-lice, Bharat Shah, relative of
Jas-nanda Shah, 85, a resident of Ni-yojannagar, Ambawadi, hasfiled
the complaint on behalf ofJasnanda. According to thecomplaint theft
that took placebetween December 27, 2014 andJanuary 2, 2015. During
the saidperiod Shah was hospitalizedand had not checked on her
be-longings. When she was recent-ly going through her valuables,she
realized several items andRs 2 lakh cash were missing.
Shah has three daughters,
all settled abroad. We are gettingin touch with the local
relativesto get more information to inves-tigate, said an
Ellisbridge po-lice official.
In another incident, ShahidHasan Kagdi, a resident of Sun-rise
Flats near Tagore Hall, hasfiled a complaint for theft of
valu-ables worth Rs 1.76 lakh from histwo residences.
According to his complaint,somebody entered into his
andneighbour Zohra Qazi's resi-dence between 10pm on Fridayand 10am
on Saturday afterbreaking locks on the maindoors and stole gold
ornaments,a watch and cash worth Rs 1.15lakh from his residence and
goldornaments and cash worth Rs70,000 from his neighbour's
resi-dence. He has filed complaint forthefts with Ellisbridge
police.
Senior in hospital,thieves raid her home
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Theft reported: A Ghatlodia resident has filed a complaintwith
police for theft of Rs 70,000. Dr Chandbhan Gadhvi, a resi-dent of
Parulnagar Society, accused Mahendra Meena, whowas working as
driver with him, stole the cash . TNN
Man duped: A Meghaninagar resident has filed a complaintagainst
police impersonator for theft of a mobile phone fromnear Kalupur
bus stand. According to a complaint by Himmat Pa-tel, a resident of
Meghaninagar, was passing from Kalupur onFriday when he was stopped
by a man posing to be a cop and-firsked him and stole the mobile.
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Ahmedabad: People mill-ing around in a designatedswine flu ward
doesnt soundlike there is much isolationor safety from further
infec-tion in the place. But this iswhat it is like in the D9
isola-tion ward at Civil Hospitalin Asarwa which is overflow-ing
with swine flu cases suspected as well as con-firmed. Most of the
patientsare frantically looking for abed after being turned
awayfrom one private hospital oranother in the city.
Throwing all precautionto the wind, relatives andstrangers
manage to get intothe D9 ward which is sup-posed to be a restricted
area.There is no one to stop them.TOI entered the so
calledquarantined ward threetimes without being ques-tioned. Inside
doctors andparamedics have theirhands full managing swineflu
patients and suspectedcases. However, they have tocalm down, at the
same time,angry and anxious relativeswho demand immediate
at-tention. In the process thedeadly virus is free to infecteven
the unwary. Some rela-tives even fought with secu-rity staff for
free access tothe ward.
The scene inside is trau-
matizing. Why arent the pa-ramedics and doctors wear-ing aprons,
protective gearand gloves? Why are rela-tives of H1N1 patients
notwearing masks all the time?Why are suspected patientsbeing
examined in a cloggedalley of the isolation ward?
We doctors arestretched. Why cant privatehospitals take off some
ofour burden? Even 200-bedprivate hospitals have just afew beds in
isolation wards.The 2015 outbreak of swineflu is the worst in five
yearsbut private hospitals havefailed to co-operate, said asenior
doctor attending topatients in the swine fluward.
Witnessing this scene inthe ward no one would be-lieve that the
state has al-ready seen five pandemicyears since the deadly
swineflu first surfaced in 2009. TheUnion ministry of health
has laid down a 17-page Clin-ical Management Protocolwhich
mandates a protectivegear for all those who enterthe quarantined
ward. Also,as in 2009, the state govern-ment is yet to declare an
epi-demic and force private hos-pitals to throw open moreisolation
facilities.
Swine flu director of Guj-arat, Dr Kamlesh Upadhyay,said that
doctors of publichospitals are doing theirbest. But it would
reducethe huge pressure on publichospitals if private hospi-tals
run swine flu OPDs andeven increase their isolationbed capacities,
said Upad-hyay.
At swine flu OPD which isat a stones throw from theisolation
ward, the attend-ing doctors had run out ofprotective masks and
wereusing old ones. A patient toldTOI that he refused to wear amask
as he would not be ableto get an auto-rickshaw.
The city's private hospi-tals can accommodate 256swine flu
patients as of now.Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad the largest referral
centrein West India had startedwith 30 beds but it has stead-ily
expanded its capacity to165 isolation beds for swineflu patients.
Such an in-crease is not visible in pri-vate hospitals of the
city.
Swine Flu Patients, Kin Crowd IsolationWard At Asarwa; Doctors
Helpless
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Ahmedabad: A BRTS bus wasvandalized after the bus hit aboy in
Sabarmati.
According to a complaint byGopal Bharwad, a resident ofGhatlodia
and working as adriver with BRTS bus, he waspassing from AMC
swimmingpool at 9.15pm on Saturdaywhen a teenager came on the
BRTS track. He stopped the bus but the
bus hit the boy. Soon after the in-cident, nearby residents
ghea-roed the bus and started peltingstones. A group led by
UtsavLeuva and Akash Makwanaroughed him up as he fled thespot and
reported the incidentto police. As per his complaint,the group
incurred damagesworth Rs 50,000 to the bus.
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Ahmedabad: In the nexttwo days, Gujarats swineflu numbers would
breachthe 2010 figures thus mak-ing 2015 the worst swine fluattack
in the states histo-ry. Over the past 46 daysGujarat has already
regis-tered 1,674 cases and re-corded 144 deaths.
In 2010 the state regis-tered 1,682 swine flu casesand recorded
363 deaths.One wonders what thedeadly disease has in storein the
upcoming monsoonand winter.
On Sunday, the stateregistered 152 new casesand eight deaths,
one of thehighest in recent times.
While interacting withpresspersons at the Sabar-mati marathon
venue,chief minister AnandibenPatel insisted that the gov-ernment
had no plans toformally declare an epi-demic.
Neighbouring Rajas-than on the contrary hasdeclared an epidemic
andforced even private hospi-tals to throw open their fa-
cilities three days ago. Guj-arat and Rajasthanaccount for 50%
of thecountrys swine flu cases.
The only glimmer ofhope, however, being that615 patients have
beencured of the disease of the1,674 cases registered sofar in
state.
Ahmedabad city regis-tered 28 new cases of the to-tal 51 cases
and two deathstill Sunday taking the totalcount to 412 and death
tollto 28 since January 1. InAhmedabad more than 3.71lakh houses
were surveyedfor fever and cough cases.
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Vadodara: Tandalja is the worst-hit area inthe city when it
comes to swine flu. As many as15 cases have been reported from the
areawithin 45 days.
The data collected by Vadodara MunicipalCorporation (VMC) on
prevalence of swine flufor the period between January 1 and
Febru-ary 14 has identified three areas in the citywhere swine flu
is more widespread. AfterTandalja, Gorwa-Subhanpura and Sama arethe
areas which have registered high number
of swine flu cases this year. Ironically, denselypopulated old
city areas have one of the lowestnumber of swine flu cases. VMC had
conduct-ed an extensive surveillance of the city thatended on
Friday.
The surveillance was aimed at identify-ing high risk areas in
the city to ensure ade-quate preventive measures. During the
sur-veillance we were looking for trends thatwould help us
concentrate our efforts to par-ticular areas. But the cases, even
in areas likeTandalja are scattered, said VMCs medicalofficer
(health) Dr Devesh Patel.
Tandalja worst-hit in [email protected]
Over the past 46days Gujarat hasregistered 1,674cases and
recorded144 deaths. In 2010, the statehad registered 1,682swine flu
cases andrecorded 363deaths. That surelymust spur alarm
Gujarats worstoutbreak but no
epidemic for govt
FIGHTING STEPS
Standard Operating Procedure
Reinforce standard infection control precautions. All those
entering the room must use high-efficiency masks, gowns, goggles,
gloves, cap and shoe
cover
Restrict number of visitors Provide anti-viral prophylaxis to
healthcare personnel managing the case and ask them to monitor
their own health twice a day
Dispose of waste properly by placing it in sealed bags labelled
as bio-hazard
PRECAUTIONS RECOMMENDED IN CLINICAL MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL
Infrastructure and material support
Isolation facilities | If dedicated isolation room is not
available, beds must be kept one metre apart
Manpower | Dedicated doctors, nurses and paramedical workers
Equipment | Portable x-ray machine, ventilators, large oxygen
cylinders, pulse oxymeter
Supplies | Adequate quantities of disinfectants and
medications
2015 is set to be worst year in terms of H1N1 onslaught in
state
Period Cases Deaths
May-Dec 09 697 125
2010 1,682 363
2011 7 4
2012 101 30
2013 1,039 198
Jan-Feb 15 2015 1,674 144 Swine flu helpline number : 1800
2332510
