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	India: GOPIO to Honour AmeriCares India Charity
	Washington, April 6 (IANS) The Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) has selected AmeriCares, the non-profit global health and disaster relief organization, for its Service to India Award on April 20. Three Indian Americans will also be honoured for service to the community and/or India or the society at large, according to a GOPIO release. In 2006, AmeriCares deepened its commitment to India by establishing a local presence in Mumbai. AmeriCares India today responds to emergency medical needs and delivers medical aid to health care providers in 26 Indian states and union territories.
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	India: AP CM Opens Centralised 'Dial-100' Emergency Response Centre
	Hyderabad: A centralised system on the lines of an emergency response agency like '911' in the United States was launched in Andhra Pradesh on April 12 to enable the police reach complainant within minutes.Under the 'Dial 100' project, the AP police department has partnered with GVK EMRI to build and operate a unified command and control centre for the entire state. The integrated 'Dial 100' centre would also co-ordinate other emergency services like medical, fire and other disaster-related response services. Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, who inaugurated the centralised 'Dial-100' system as an "Ugadi (Telugu New Year) gift"
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	India: Kashmir Hospital Gets Critical Care Facility
	Srinagar: A year after the high number of infant deaths rocked Kashmir, LallaDed Maternity Hospital, the Valley's most busy women and children hospital, has now got an intensive care unit facility for better patient care. The 3-bedded intensive care unit (ICU) unit was inaugurated by Minister for Medical Education TajMohi-ud-Din on April 11 yesterday, an official spokesman said. The Minister also inaugurated the extended ward of the labour room, which has added newly furbished 16 beds to the labour room of the hospital, the spokesman said.
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	India: Poor Disaster Management Delays Rescue
	Kochi: The site where the St. Augustine’s Church collapsed at Aroor on,April 8, Monday could not have been more chaotic, a testimony to how ill-equipped Ernakulam and Alappuzha districts were in dealing with such a disaster. According to standard disaster management protocol, an accident of this magnitude warranted a specialised Collapsed Structure Search and Rescue (CSSR) team, comprising personnel proficient in entering disaster sites and carrying out rescue operations. But no such team was part of the rescue operations on April 8, Monday. A building collapse called for the same disaster management measures followed in the case of a
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	India: Innovations that can Help Save Precious Seconds at Traffic Signals
	Coimbatore: Shyam Jude and his team of young engineers give shape to such innovations at their Analog and Digital Labs. It is situated in an unusually quiet corner off Avanashi Road, away from the din of traffic. Traffic intelligence is the team’s area of expertise, and they regularly brain storm to convert ideas into reality. The Emergency Corridor is their latest innovation. Jude says, “The device alerts the nearest signal about the speed of the ambulance and the direction from where it is coming. It can be operated from a minimum distance of 200 metres to a kilometre. We want to rope in big hospitals as sponsors, set up a trust
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India: GOPIO to Honour AmeriCares India Charity

India: AP CM Opens Centralised 'Dial-100' Emergency Response Centre

India: Kashmir Hospital Gets Critical Care Facility

India: Poor Disaster Management Delays Rescue

India: Innovations that can Help Save Precious Seconds at Traffic Signals

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