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India: 108 Service Employees Call off Strike


Hyderabad:  The nearly 3,500 employees of '108' ambulance service called off their prolonged agitation on August 22 Thursday after a dialogue with the officials of Emergency Management and Research Institute (EMRI) that is operating the service on behalf of the state government and an official from the labour department. They are set to resume duties within a day or two. EMRI in a token gesture decided to give a Rs 300 hike per month for each employee. Employees working as drivers and paramedics for the '108' ambulance service who get paid Rs 7,200 - Rs 8,500 per month have been asking for a minimum mo
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India: State Disaster Response Force Constituted in Karnataka


Karnataka has constituted the State Disaster Response Force to deal with any eventuality and avoid & minimise the damage. A high-level meeting was held in Kaiga on August 19 Monday to discuss preparedness in case of disasters at the nuclear power station.Senior officials from the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Nuclear Power Corporation, district administration and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) participated in the meeting. These companies would be stationed in Bangalore, Mangalore, Belgaum and Gulbarga, and 5 more companies would be created in 2 stages, he said. Each company would comprise of 127 persons w
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India: Basic Life-saving Skills for Kolkata Cabbies Soon


Kolkata: The state transport department is going to organize a first-aid training programme for 5,000 taxi drivers in the city, so that they could provide help to passengers if they fall ill while in the taxi.The taxi drivers, after completing the training, will be given a certificate on basic life-saving, said sources. The training programme will be held at Netaji Indoor stadium on August 26. Eminent doctorswould provide the training, said transport minister MadanMitra. The minister also clarified that the government had no plans of cancelling yellow taxis, saying there was a rumour circulating in this regard.
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India: Railways to Set up Free Medical Assistance Centres at 5 Stations ? upload


Madurai: The Southern Railway is planning to establish free emergency medical assistance centres at five stations coming under the Madurai division. The centres to come up shortly, will be set up at Madurai, Tuticorin, Virudhunagar, Tenkasi and Tirunelveli railway junctions.  S Ram Prakash, chief medical director of Southern Railway announced this to media persons here on August 26 Monday. He was in Madurai to inaugurate the outpatient facility at the Railway Hospital which has been constructed at a cost of Rs 2.5 crore. Prakash said the centres are already functioning in Chennai, Salem, while one more would be inaugurated in Trichy soo
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India: Mobile Camera to Call Help When Onlookers Click Pics of Accident Victims


Mumbai: It is perhaps the discovery of the decade. Munna Mobile, a school dropout and owner of a mobile repair shop in Dharavi has built a mobile camera that helps accident victims. All you need to do is click a picture of the accident victim from your mobile phone (as most people do it involuntarily these days) and the phone automatically alerts the police and ambulance service by making an automated voice call. It also goes a step ahead and books a bed at the nearby hospital through IVRS. The healing touch, now coming soon on a mobile.
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