Panel for new AIIMS director

By OUR CORRESPONDENT

New Delhi

July 17: Union health ministry has set-up an 11-member selection committee to finalise a panel of candidates for the post of director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). The committee will be headed by Union health minister Anbumani Ramadoss. A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the AIIMS Institute Body. The first meeting of the panel will be held on July 31 to select two candidates for its consideration of the Institute Body.

The decision of the Body will be then forwarded to the Appointments Committee of Cabinet for final approval. About 70 applications have been received for the post.

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ASI’s wife shoots self

Patna, July 17: An alleged mentally deranged wife of an additional sub-inspector of police (ASI) here shot herself dead on Thursday using the service revolver of her husband.

Sati Devi, wife of G.D. Upadhayaya, an ASI posted at S.K. Puri police station shot herself dead using the service revolver of her husband, deputy superintendent of police (Secretariat) Shreedhar Mandal said.

He said the ASI’s wife was under medication for depression for the past six months and took the extreme step on Thursday morning.

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Delivery at hospital steps

Baroda, July 17: A destitute woman had to deliver her baby outside a private hospital in Godhra after she was refused treatment, as she could not bear her medical expenses.

Shantaben Wadi from Ante village, gave birth to a baby boy at the steps of the hospital after she went through acute labour pain on Wednesday, her family members said. It turned out to be a normal delivery, they added. —PTI

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Blood sample sent abroad?

BY Our Correspondent

Bhubaneswar

July 17: The "stolen" blood samples of the girl who is undergoing treatment at the SCB Medical at Cuttack, 25 km from here, for a rare genetic disorder are believed to have been passed into foreign hands.

Doctors treating the 14-year-old girl had high hopes on patenting the research findings on the case considered as "unique".

"We will lose our patent rights on our findings if the samples find their way to foreign research bodies," they said. A staff nurse took the blood samples of the girl and her father without being "authorised".