Ambimama - India

I saw a news item in that Mothers can choose when to deliver by Caesarean section. This name came as it is believed that Roam emperor Caesar was born this way. A mother can choose the date of delivery. But the Doctor is the boss and she decides (normally Gynaecologists are women) when to do C-sec.

I saw a news item that is given below:
New Delhi: Anuradha Mattoos two sons, aged 5 years and one month respectively, were born on the same date December 29. But that was no coincidence. When I realized that my second baby is also expected in the same timeframe as the first one, I prayed the delivery happens on the same date as well, says Mattoo. And when she was admitted with labour pains on the evening of December 29th last year, she had two options either to wait for normal delivery which would have taken another day or get a cesarean section (C-sec ) done on the same day. She chose the later.

Around the world, more and more women are going for C-sec over a normal delivery although the reasons may vary. Perhaps that is why a recent WHO report, which reviewed nearly 110,000 births across Asia in 2007-08 , found that 27% were done under the knife, partially motivated by the hospitals business interests or by expectant mothers and their families.

The survey found the world’s highest C-sec rate in China, pegging it at 46%, a quarter of them not medically necessary. According to the report, which was published in the medical journal The Lancet, the C-Sec rate in India was 18%. Nevertheless, C-sec is fast becoming the preferred mode of delivery in India as well, says gynaecologist Madhu Prakash. The reasons are many, she says. Some women opt for the surgery to choose their delivery day after consulting fortune tellers for lucky birthdays; others fear painful natural births or worry about damage to the vaginal region. Some women also prefer the operation because they mistakenly believe it is less risky. On special days, like New Years Day, the number of C-Sec deliveries rise abnormally, says Prakash.

Last year, for instance, operation theatres turned into assembly lines for the Janmashtami baby boom, as it is believed that a baby born on this day is a reincarnation of Krishna. Although mothers can opt for C-sec once the baby has reached the 38th week, increase in this procedure is cause for alarm, since unnecessary C-sections are costlier and raise the risk of complications.

I observed several days back on the building of Burj in the Discovery Channel. It is the tallest building in the World and many engineering companies from all over the World gave a nice and satisfying report of the construction. But recently the Dubai authorities offer minimal response after lift passengers’ problems.

The report:
It’s one thing being stuck in a lift between floors in a relatively small skyscraper like the Empire State Building. It’s another when it is the tallest building in the world, the recently opened 828-metre Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai.

A group of 15 passengers, hoping to see the view from the observation deck on the 124th floor of the 160-floor building, were reported to be terrified, some hysterical, after they were stranded for 45 minutes on Saturday.
Visitors reported the sound of a crash “like a small explosion” and the sight of smoke billowing when the lift failed. Questions about how it happened - and why staff were so slow to react - have been met with only a minimal response.

Tourists on the observation deck who heard the crash and the noise of breaking glass coming from the lift shaft say they reported it to security guards who at first said nothing was wrong. The passengers were eventually able to escape using a ladder dropped from the observation deck into the lift shaft.

Fox News has reported that this is the second time a lift has got stuck since the grand opening of the Burj Khalif tower on January 4.

However, inquiries in Dubai about the incident elicited only very sketchy answers. The tower’s management company said only that the observation desk was now closed due to “maintenance upgrades”, while Dubai government authorities admitted only to “an incident”.
It was treated as a non-story by the state-run media in the city-state of Dubai, still shaken by last year’s debt problems and the $10bn rescue in December by their oil-rich neighbours Abu Dhabi. As a result, the tower, originally called the Burj Dubai, was suddenly renamed the Burj Khalifa in honour of Abu Dhabi’s ruler, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan.

I read daily many things on Paper and the Net. Now a days I feel News readily available to all and not worthy of reporting. I have the liberty to post anything – not the News. But the News has sometimes interesting things to write about. Reading books and getting lost into it also makes my writing come to a total halt. I cannot write about the topics I read as it will be interesting to read and I cannot write about the book or the topics the book has it.

But I must write to my readers and I will do it.

UK has suffered as spectacular satellite image showed the entire British mainland covered in snow and ice during January and February. Scotland, has spent much of the last two months under a blanket of snow, is suffering its coldest winter since records began, according to the Met Office. The news is likely to be jumped upon by those who question the science behind the scientific ‘consensus’ that global warming is a reality.

The average temperatures in January and December were the coldest in Scotland since 1914 - the year that data was first logged.

The Met Office revealed that Northern Ireland experienced its coldest December and January since the early 1960s and it has not been colder in England and Wales since the winter of 1981/2. Scotland has borne the brunt of the freezing weather since the cold snap began in mid-December. The average minimum overnight temperature north of the border in January is zero - but last month it regularly dipped below -5C.

The Highland village of Altnaharra experienced the coldest temperature of the period, when the mercury dropped to -22.3C in January. The same village endured the UK’s record low in December 1995, when the temperature fell to -27.3C. The news is likely to be jumped on by those who disagree with the theory of global warming. The science of climate change has come under fire since the Copenhagen summit after the ‘Climategate’ scandal broke and scientists at the University of East Anglia were accused of manipulating data on global warming. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has also had to apologise for claims that the Himalayan glaciers could disappear within 25 years.

However, most scientists still maintain that climate change is happening and that mankind is to blame.

Taking serious note of absenteeism among dental college professors, the Dental Council of India has decided to introduce biometric attendance system for the teachers by the end of February. This could well be a trendsetter for medical colleges which also face the problem of teachers not spending enough time in colleges.

We found that some professors are making flying visits to their college; some are on the rolls of four colleges. Some are so busy with private practice that they don’t even visit the college. With a number of dental colleges mushrooming, it has become necessary for us to monitor the quality of education, said DCI president Dr Anil Kohli. The council received complaints that due to staff shortage, dental colleges were making compromises on the mandatory conditions, including number of staff and teaching hours.

The database from the biometric system will help the authorities verify attendance apart from documentary proof. So far, the council had not taken action against erring doctors for want of proof. These machines will provide documentary evidence. They will be installed by us and maintained by the college, he said. At the diamond jubilee celebrations of the council inaugurated on Saturday by deputy chief minister M K Stalin, Kohli said the council along with the planning commission, WHO and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) will undertake a study to assess the dental healthcare situation in the country, including statistics on number of private and government colleges, clinics, doctors and students. We will have the results by December 2010. We will make policy decisions based on it, he said. The commission will make it mandatory for dentists to attend at least 20 hours of continuous dental education programme.

Stalin said the state was making arrangements to ensure oral hygiene in rural areas by allotting funds to set up dental wards in taluk hospitals and primary health centres. At least 80% of kids and 60% of adults have some dental issues . Besides these, at least 30% of cancers are oral cancers.

Most dental students studying in self-financing colleges pay huge sums of money as tuition fees and cannot be forced to work in rural areas, said DCI president Dr Anil Kohli. They pay in lakhs and we cannot force them to work in rural areas where they may not be able to earn that kind of money. Rural health care, should be the responsibility of the government, he said. With only one government dental college in the state, there are just 100 dentists produced annually, compared to 1,250 who pass out of the private colleges. We have decided there would be no more self-financing colleges, he said.