Obituary: Sivasambu Anandaraja - physician, cardiologist and a gentleman
10 Dec, 2020 08:55 PM
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Dr Sivasambu Anandaraja. Photo / Supplied
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Sivasambu Ana Anandaraja s life was adventurous, interesting and full.
His schooling was at the prestigious Royal College, Colombo, the Eton of Sri Lanka, where he was a prefect, managed the Senior Literary Association and was a proud participant in the debating team.
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At 17, he was one of seven boy scouts who represented Ceylon at the first World Scout Jamboree in Moisson near Paris. He had vivid memories of the invitation to a garden party at Buckingham Palace that followed, where the scouts formed a guard of honour for King George the sixth.
Women’s Day: Virologist recounts challenges in caring for first UAE Covid-19 patient dhanusha@khaleejtimes.com Filed on March 8, 2021
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Dr Nishi and several other women speak about the challenges they faced amid Covid-19.
An Indian virologist said she was in the midst of teaching a course at a Dubai institution when she was alerted to the first Covid-19 case in the UAE.
Dr Nishi Singh who was part of the team that worked on the care of the first Covid-19 patient in the UAE, was recounting her experience of dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic in the UAE at a panel discussion by the Consulate General of India in Dubai on International Women’s Day.
Covid 19 coronavirus: Doctor describes working in managed isolation and quarantine facilities
8 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM
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Drug addicts going through withdrawal, the terminally ill, expectant mothers and new babies - medical professionals staffing the managed isolation and quarantine facilities deal with it all.
Dr Mark Craig is one of those doctors. He s now urging the public to be compassionate to the people inside after what he saw working across Auckland s MIQ hotels for six months.
Craig worked across all Auckland s MIQ hotels as an on-call doctor from March 2020, where he encountered people in pain, battling addictions and suffering from heartbreak.
Bennetts Associates has completed work on a new building for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in Southwark.
The college is relocating to 10 Union Street from an address in Regent’s Park with the Southwark site linking two buildings, a converted 19
th century hop warehouse and a 1980s office building, by creating a new atrium.
More than 200 staff will be billeted at the site which also includes conferencing facilities and a public café.
The four-storey glazed atrium covers the courtyard space between the two buildings and will increase levels of natural light throughout the building, particularly in the central meeting area below.
Almost two-thirds of MPs want funding for social care to be increased by £7 billion a year over the next two years, a survey suggests.
And almost a quarter believe the rise should be more than this, according to polling for Health for Care, a coalition of 15 health organisations led by the NHS Confederation.
The groups say social care needs “urgent and radical reform and significant investment”, and are calling on the Government to deliver on its manifesto pledge to “fix” the sector.
Results of the survey, of 96 MPs and 520 councillors in England between November 25 and December 15, come ahead of Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget on Wednesday.