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Health Department in UP probes irregular oxygen cylinder prices at COVID-19 hospitals

(Eds: Incorporating information from other states) New Delhi, Apr 19 () In the wake of rising coronavirus cases, authorities in several states have asked medical shops and pharmacists to keep a record of phone number and address of customers who buy medicines for fever, cough and cold -symptoms similar to COVID-19. Advisories have been issued in this regard to chemists in states like Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha and parts of Bihar. While in some states the officials have been clear that the information will be shared with authorities to ensure that people are not hiding symptoms of coronavirus, others said it was just a precautionary measure. In a memo to all municipal commissioners and additional collectors of districts, Telangana's Principal Secretary (Municipal Administration and Urban Development)Arvind Kumar said it has been observed that due to "hesitation and perceived social stigma", people suffering from fever or cold symptoms which might be similar to coronavirus are approaching the medical shops directly on their own and asking for fever medicines. "It is imperative that in a proactive manner we follow up on these cases which are having fever and other such symptoms which might be similar to those of coronavirus. "We should be able to contact these patients and get a test conducted depending upon the symptoms," it said. Kumar instructed the officials to convene a meeting with all medical shops and pharmacists including respective associations and instruct them to necessarily take the contact address and phone numbers of customers who approach them to buy these medicines. He asked the officials to get the list from the pharmacies and maintain a directory of all such cases and get the tests done if the symptoms are similar to COVID-19. In Maharashtra, which has reported the highest coronavirus cases, the state Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has asked the pharmacists to keep detailed records of medicines, including Hydroxychloroquine, used for treating various types of fevers and coughs. The pharmacists are also asked to report to state authorities if any patient demands such medicine frequently so as to track down such people who might be trying to suppress symptoms of the infection. Several people were buying medicines without prescriptions from doctors and a record of those who have been doing so for coronavirus symptoms will help authorities combat the outbreak better, an official said in Pune. Health advisories have been issued to medicine shops in Odisha to keep a record of people purchasing flu medicines as authorities suspect they could be used to suppress symptoms of coronavirus with an intent to skip testing. The Drug Controller Administration under the Health and Family Welfare department of Odisha has asked pharmacists to note the address or at least telephone number of the persons buying medicines for cold, cough and sneezing. "We have been collecting data in order to ascertain the ratio of population vulnerable to cold and fever. There is no reason to be worried about. The data may be used in extreme case in future," M Patnaik, the Drugs Controller of Odisha, told . In Bihar, though the health department denied issuing any such directive, but district administration of Bhojpur and Rohtas have sent a note to the chemists to this effect. Reports suggest that a large number of people are buying medicines like paracetamol. In Bihar, Rohtas and Bhojpur, district administrations have issued a directive to pharmacies to submit records of people buying medicines for fever, cough and cold, probably to keep track of those having symptoms akin to COVID-19. According to the order, the medicine shops have been told to submit information to the authorities concerned in their respective areas. Assistant Drug Inspector, Rohtas in a notice asked medical shops to maintain personal details of people buying medicines for fever, cough and cold in a proper format and the same (details of buyers) should be sent to the Drug Inspector on their whatsapp numbers on a daily basis for perusal of the District Magistrate. In Bhojpur, the district administration has directed the medical shops to write down name and mobile phone numbers of people buying crocin and other paracetamol tablets. They have been instructed to furnish the details to the concerned government hospitals incharge or Medical Officer. It also said that even private clinics and hospitals will provide information about such patients coming to them with symptoms of fever, cold and cough to the concerned government hospital. Odisha Drug Controller said chemists outlets are sending the required data to different area Drug Inspectors. "We know fever, cold and cough are seasonal disease. The people should cooperate and open up," she said adding urban local bodies' help is also taken to make medicine shops aware about coronavirus. A chemist outlet owner in IRC village in Bhubaneswar said, "Yes we have been sending address and phone numbers of the people purchasing medicines for cold and cough to the department. People have no hesitation in sharing their phone numbers." This apart, Patnaik said the Drug Controller Administration has already restricted sale of certain medicines like Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin. The chemist outlets are directed not to sell such medicines without doctors prescription, she said. Anti-malarial drug Hydroxychloroquine is in much demand for management of COVID-19 cases. GDK ND AAM SKN DBVRT

COVID-19 crisis: Chemists asked to keep record of people seeking medicines for fever, cough

After over an year, Three of the eight accused in the <keyword id="212403" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Kathua">Kathua</keyword> rape case are sentenced to life imprisonment. The court earlier today convicted the main accused, <keyword id="6347479" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Sanji-Ram">Sanji Ram</keyword>, for the murder and rape of 8-year old girl last year in Kathua district in Jammu and Kashmir. The rest six accused in the Kathua rape case are convicted under three sections including Ranbir Penal Codes' Sections 201 (pertaining to the disappearance of evidence) and 120-B (pertaining to criminal conspiracy). Those convicted include former revenue official Sanji Ram, Special Police Officers Deepak Khajuria and Surinder Kumar, two investigating officers -- head constable Tilak Raj and sub-inspector Anand Dutta and Parvesh Kumar. One of the accused, Vishal, was acquitted due to lack of evidence, while the juvenile accused is going to face a separate trial following a petition. Ram's son Vishal is acquitted due to lack of evidence, while an accused juvenile faces a separate trial. His trial is yet to begin as a petition to determine his age is waiting judgement in the Jammu and Kashmir High Court. The 8-year-old girl was kidnapped and held captive at a village temple in Kathua district on January 10 last year, said the charge sheet. The 15-page charge sheet against the accused had said that the eight-year-old girl, who was kidnapped on January 10 last year, was raped in captivity in a small village temple in Kathua district after having been sedated for four days before she was bludgeoned to death. She was drugged, starved and repeatedly raped for days. She was finally strangled and her head was bashed in with a rock. Her mutilated body was found in a forest area on January 17. Three days later, one of the accused -- reportedly a juvenile -- was arrested by police, the charge sheet said. (With IANS)

Kathua Rape Case: Three of the accused in rape and murder of the eight year old get life imprisonment

(Eds: combining related series)Jaipur/Chennai, May 17() The coronavirus outbreak in jails with Jaipur accounting for a large chunk has sparked worries of new cluster cases, as authorities released thousands of prisoners on parole or bail to decongest crowded prisons in the country to try halt the spread of the infection in closed settings. The release of prisoners as a precautionary measure from the last week of March followed a direction by the Supreme Court, and more jail inmates are expected to come out in the next few days. The bail and parole are for a initial 45-60 day period which is extendable. The apex court had asked all the states and union territories to constitute high-level committees to consider releasing on parole or interim bail prisoners and undertrials for offences entailing up to a seven-year jail term, to decongest prisons in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The top court on March 23 said overcrowding of prisons is a matter of serious concern, observing it was "difficult for prisoners to maintain social distancing". Concerned over the spread of coronavirus infection to nearly 150 prisoners in Jaipur jails, an official on Sunday said the Rajasthan government may take a decision on Monday to conduct random sampling of prisoners lodged in other prisons in the state. After COVID-19 cases were reported in the Jaipur district jail, the prison authorities got all the inmates and staff members tested for the virus. In the district jail which is home to 423 inmates, the jail superintendent and 130 inmates have tested positive so far. A few cases were reported from the Jaipur central jail as well. "All the inmates and staff members of Jaipur district jail have been tested for coronavirus. Cases have come up from one ward in the central jail also and now we have decided to conduct random sampling in other wards of the central jail," said DG (Prisons) NRK Reddy. In Jaipur district jail, Reddy said a prisoner who came in early April was the source of infection. He was asymptomatic when he was kept in isolation in initial days and later suffered from low blood pressure and diarrhoea. He was tested for COVID-19 and the report came positive on May 9. In the meantime, the jail superintendent and a few other inmates got infected. The cases in Jaipur district jail spiked on Saturday when 119 prisoners tested positive. On Sunday, 14 prisoners (12 from central jail and two from district jail) also tested positive for the virus. After the death of an inmate in Agra Central Jail due to COVID-19, a senior official said the Uttar Pradesh Prison Administration and Reform Department has started random testing of samples for coronavirus in all the prisons of the state. Fourteen jail inmates were quarantined following the death of the prisoner on May 8, Anand Kumar, DG of the Department of Prisons Administration and Reform, told . He said 13 jail officials who looked after the barrack where the prisoner was lodged were also tested for COVID-19. At present, there are 71 operational jails in UP with over 94,000 inmates. So far, more than 16,000 inmates have been released either on bail or parole, Kumar said. "Even today, there are 94,000 inmates in jails against a capacity of 60,000. Overcrowding is a problem. We are still 1.5 times above the sanctioned capacity," he added. In the first case of COVID-19 at a Punjab prison, a 48-year-old woman inmate at the Ludhiana jail has tested positive, an official said. The woman, who tested positive on May 1, is facing charges under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. She was brought to the prison by the Sangrur Police on April 28. The Punjab government has so far released 9,773 inmates from all the jais, the official said. In the national capital, officials said a total of 3,500 inmates were released from three jails--Tihar, Rohini and Mandoli. Tihar jail is Asia's largest prison complex. Days after a 28-year-old inmate of Rohini jail tested positive for coronavirus, 15 others who shared a barrack with him and one head warden have also tested positive on Saturday for the infection, officials said. Jail authorities said when they started the process to decongest in March, the prisoner population in the three jails was 17,500 as against the sanctioned strength of 10,000. With several inmates being released, the population in the jails has come down to around 14,200 but the process of more coming out will continue, they said. Authorities in Maharashtra have released over 7,200 prisoners so far, an official said, adding, around 10,000 more will be released shortly. "The pre-lockdown population in the 60 prisons across the state was over 35,000 and so far we have released over 7,200 inmates temporarily to decongest the jails," the official from the prisons department told . Over 100 inmates and staff of central Mumbai's Arthur Road Jail had recently tested positive for COVID-19, the official said. The pre-lockdown population of Arthur Road Jail was 2,300, of which around 700 prisoners were released, he said. There are 1,572 inmates in the jail now, he added. In Tamil Nadu, prisoners were provided with smart phones and inmates are allowed to make video calls to their family members in a bid to avoid crowding of jails by visitors. More than 6,000 inmates were released on bail from different prisons, an official said. As a result, the present strength of prisoners in 135 plus jails, including nine central and five special prisons for women, in the state is approximately 13,500 as against the authorised capacity of about 23,000, the official told . The Bihar government has shifted around 4,500 prisoners from overcrowded jails to lesser-crowded ones but has not released a single inmate either on parole or interim bail, a senior officer said. When asked why no prisoner was enlarged on interim bail or released on parole despite the apex court's order, IG (Prisons) Mithilesh Mishra said the inmates were not released as they might become vulnerable to coronavirus and later spread the infection once they return to the prison. Nearly 6,500 prisoners were released from jails in Madhya Pradesh since the coronavirus outbreak, an official said. The state has around 131 jails, of which more than 75 per cent was overcrowded, he said. The jails have a total capacity for 28,500 prisoners. Over 3,550 inmates, including 300 lodged in detention camps, were released from jails across Assam since March, a senior official said. Of them, around 1,700 prisoners were released following the Supreme Court direction while others got out as per normal legal procedure, said Assam Inspector General of Prisons Dasarath Das. He said the state's 31 jails currently house 8,510 inmates against the sanctioned capacity of 8,938. In Gujarat, nearly 2,500 of the 14,000 prisoners have been released from 28 jails, according to Additional Director General of Police, Prisons, K L N Rao. In Haryana, nearly 4,000 of the 20,000 inmates in 19 jails, including three central prisons--one in Ambala and two in Hisar were released, an official said. In Chattisgarh, as many as 3,418 prisoners, mostly undertrials, came out of the jails. In a bid to prevent spread of COVID-19 in prisons in Kerala, the state government will admit remand prisoners only if they test negative for the virus. The state has already granted remission and parole to several inmates. The swabs of remand prisoners will be taken and tested for the virus and till the results arrive, they will be either lodged at hospitals or quarantine facilities arranged by the district administration, a senior prison official said. SDA AMP SLB SPK VT CHS VSD LAL SUN NAV VGN TR RRT GSN GSNGSN

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