Vaccination drive: Informed consent not obtained from sanitation workers, security guards at Tiruchy hospital?
As Covaxin is still in Phase 3 trials, protocol mandates that recipients of the vaccine are made aware of this and consent forms are signed before administration.
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A health official shows a Covaxin vaccine dose after a consignment of the vaccine arrived. (Photo | Shekhar Yadav, EPS)
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TIRUCHY: Was informed consent obtained from all security personnel and sanitary workers who were inoculated against COVID-19 at the Tiruchy Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital (MGMGH) on Sunday? This reporter found that pre-vaccine counselling may have been skipped and consent forms not immediately filled for at least some workers who were administered Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin vaccine at the hospital on day 2 of the vaccine drive in the State.
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TIRUCHY: Managing personal finances is a job many find taxing, even when everything is hunky dory. Add to that a pandemic, pay cuts, job losses, uncertainty, and it became a nightmare for many. Some, however, managed to find the silver lining in this gloomy year.
On one side, you have the people who lost their jobs or faced pay cuts, making it difficult to make ends meet, on the other, salaried professionals, working couples managed to save a lot more than usual, owing to lesser spending.
24-year-old Satish (name changed) was working in a call centre in Tiruchy. He was laid off in June, and was without a job for more than three months. He says that those three months were the toughest times in his life. Having to take care of an ailing mother, this only child had to resort to borrowing money at a high interest rate in the third month.
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PUDUKKOTTAI: It is 8 am on a chilly December morning and the continuous sound of chiselling cuts through the silent monotony of the street next to the Government Museum here. A small girl, all of 12 years, is crouching on a block of wood, with a set of tools near her. A few curious steps closer, and one could see that she is half-way through carving out a beautiful design on a wooden door.
Anjana Sri is a carpenter’s daughter who was drawn to this art at a very young age. Soon, with help from her father, it became her part-time profession. The pandemic-induced lockdown came as a blessing in disguise, giving her enough time to pursue her interest and learn from her guru her father, Muthukumar. With a mind filled with creativity, Anjana took to carpentry like a duck to water, says the father of the class 7 student.
Tiruchy school breaks stereotypes, admits trans teen
Harini was 10 years old when she saw a policeman save a group of transgenders from a violent mob.
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TIRUCHY: Harini was 10 years old when she saw a policeman save a group of transgenders from a violent mob. That day she decided she would become a police officer too. Now 15, life has not been easy for her. Hariharan, as Harini was named at birth, was in class 5 when she realised changes in the body and informed the family. Shocked that she came out as a transgender, the family did not accept her and started abusing her.