Amravati: District Programme Officer Ajay Sakhare and medical officer Ujjwala Mohod became the first beneficiaries as the Covid vaccination drive got off to an enthusiastic start in the district on Saturday morning.
Total 500 healthcare workers were administered the vaccine at two centres in the city and three in the district today. Each centre had registered a hundred health care workers for vaccination. The centres were District General Hospital and PDMC in the city, Sub District Hospital at Achalpur, Rural Hospital at Teosa and Primary Health Center at Anjangaon.Bari.
Today s 500 beneficiaries will be given the second dose 28 days later, civil surgeon Dr Shyamsundar Nikam said. In the first phase, 16,262 health care workers will be vaccinated, he added.
Chandrapur: Foresters of Rajura stumbled upon an old case of tiger poaching after recovery of canines, a nail and whiskers of the big cat from Nalfadi village. Sources in the department claimed that a person has been arrested in the case, while team has been dispatched in the lookout for others involved in the poaching.
Sources informed that RFO, Rajura, Videshkumar Galgat got a tip-off about tiger parts being hidden at a place in Nalfadi. Accordingly, raid was conducted and a tiger nail, two canines and a dozen whiskers were recovered hidden underneath a stone in the front yard of a house on Friday.
The main features of the guidelines are:
A. Continued Education for out of schoolchildren (OoSC) and Children with Special Needs (CWSN)
- Continuation of non-residential training for identified out of schoolchildren through volunteers, local teachers and community participation.
- Continuation of home based education for CWSN children through volunteers/special educators.
B. Identifying out of schoolchildren
- States and UTs to carry out proper identification of out of schoolchildren for 6 to 18 years age group through a comprehensive door-to-door survey and prepare action plan for their enrolment.
C. Enrolment drives and awareness generation
- Enrolment drives may be undertaken at the beginning of academic year such as Praveshotsav, School Chalo Abhiyan etc.
Civil surgeon Dr Pramod Khandate told TOI that three to four babies were charred to death while the rest of the casualties happened as oxygen supply was cut.
10 children killed in fire at Bhandara District General Hospital in #Maharashtra, reports ANI https://t.co/5vrI1hATVF TOI Pune (@TOIPune) 1610155646000
Prima facie it appears that the fire broke out following a short circuit. A doctor and a nurse were on duty at the time of the incident.
The fire brigade was deployed and the blaze was brought under control.
Dr Khandate said some babies were delivered at the hospital while others were brought from outside.