Surat: After the massive fire ravaged the entire facility on the midnight of April 30, the Welfare Hospital administration in Bharuch announced it will not treat Covid patients any more.
The hospital administration said that the infrastructure they had created was damaged and there is nothing much they can do now. “We have cured hundreds of patients from not only Bharuch, but from Vadodara, Surat and Narmada for free in one year. We have also lost our Covid treatment centre and all medical infrastructure so we will not be able to continue the treatment,” said Zuber Patel, trustee of Bombay Patel Welfare Society.
Surat: Four nudnicks including a eunuch were arrested on Saturday for harassing relatives of Covid patients inside the SMIMER Hospital campus and then getting into a brawl with the police too.
Police said that the group of six comprising ragpickers and beggars including the four arrested started harassing relatives of Covid patients in the open space outside the Covid building on April 30 midnight.
Two lok rakshak dal (LRD) jawaans who were deployed inside the hospital went to check after receiving a complaint from a family member of the patient. When they tried to chase them away, accused Anju Adwani, Mangla Sirsath, Sunil Jaiswal and Sonu Waghela got into a brawl and allegedly slapped one of the cops.
Surat: A labourer from Madhya Pradesh was arrested on Saturday evening for the alleged raping and brutal murder of a five-year-old girl living in his neighbourhood in Hazira on April 30.
The 27-year-old accused Sujit Saket told police that he committed the crime as he had a rift with her father over a petty fight that took place in 2019.
Police said that when the girl had gone to answer nature’s call in the open near her house, Saket bumped into her. He lured the girl by offering money to buy chocolate and took her to an uninhabited room behind their housing colony. Saket admitted to police that he raped and sodomized the girl too. When she started shouting, Saket hit her with a brick on her head and later strangulated her. Saket then dumped her body in bushes behind the room.
Sanjay running from pillar to post in NCH to locate his father admitted on April 9
Surat: That it ended on International Workers’ Day, added irony to the morbid tale. Migrant worker Sanjay Tiwari’s search for his father Maharanidin (65) ended at a morgue on Saturday. Maharanidin (65) had died 18 days ago at the state-run Covid-19 hospital in New Civil Hospital (NCH). But the hospital staff failed to inform the son about his father’s death.
Tiwari was inquiring for his father since Tuesday but did not receive any information until TOI took up the issue with the top NCH administration. Later, Tiwari cremated his father at Ramnath Ghela Crematorium in Umra on Saturday. Tiwari, who hails from Prayagraj, lived with his father in Godadara. His other family members live at their native place in Uttar Pradesh.
Bharuch/Surat: The industrial units in Bharuch have been asked to motivate their staff to take the vaccine for Covid-19 as the drive for inoculating people in 18-45 years age group begins on Saturday. Bharuch is one of the 10 districts where vaccination drive begins on Saturday.
About 2 lakh people are employed in various industrials estates in Bharuch of which only 20,000 had registered for the vaccine in the 45 years and above category. According to district officials, 14,000 have been vaccinated whereas 6,000 are yet to take the jab.
Shamina Hussain, in-charge secretary for Bharuch held an online meeting with representatives of the industrial associations on Friday and told them to ensure maximum vaccination. She said that if more people from one estate register, then a separate camp will be organized for them. J B Dave, general manager, district industries centre ensured full support to the units.