[ARABNEWS] A Saudi man who frequently suffered nosebleeds has been given a rather unusual diagnosis of an extra tooth growing in his nose.
The 22-year-old man experienced a nosebleed once or twice a month for around three years, before he consulted a doctor.
Upon examination, a white bone-like mass measuring around half an inch in length was discovered in his nostril. The doctor consulted a group of dentists, who confirmed that the find was actually a tooth, according to a report in the American Journal of Case Reports.
Writing in International Business Times, journalist Lydia Smith said the discovery suggests the man was suffering from hyperdontia, a condition which causes teeth to grow in areas other than the mouth.
Teeth can appear in any area of the dental arch and can affect any dental organ. The extra nasal tooth was removed while the man was under general anaesthetic, after which the patient healed and stopped suffering nosebleeds around three months later.
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[Iran Press TV] The Nigerian president has declared a state of emergency in the country over the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus.
On Friday, President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... "declared the control and containment of the Ebola virus in Nigeria a national emergency," the president's office said in a statement.
Jonathan urged people to avoid large gatherings to prevent the spread of the disease that has claimed two lives in the African country.
"Religious and political groups, spiritual healing centers, families, associations and other bodies should... discourage gatherings and activities that may unwittingly promote close contact with infected persons or place others at risk."
The president has also ordered a number of measures, including the establishment of new isolation wards, screening at borders and contact tracing.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Ebola has killed nearly 1,000 people and infected over 1,770 people in West Africa this year.
There is currently no known cure for Ebola, a form of hemorrhagic fever whose symptoms are diarrhea, vomiting and bleeding.
The virus spreads through direct contact with infected blood, feces or sweat. It can also be spread through sexual contact or the unprotected handling of contaminated corpses.
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be a damn shame if tainted corpses airdropped into Bokeaux territory infected a few krazed killers
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Yes, Frank: it would be a damn shame. Because it wouldn't stay with the "Bokeaus". It would plague the whole region. It would be a final cruel blow to those who survive a raid.
[KHOU] PEARLAND, Texas —A pilot's mistake caused more than 350 members of the Pearland High school marching band to be doused with pesticide.
According to the Pearland ISD, the band students were outside around 8 a.m. Thursday when the Brazoria County Mosquito Control District airplane flew over the school and sprayed the practice lot with pesticide.
The school called EMS and sent the students home. They were told to shower for 25 minutes, change clothes and wash all instruments.
"It was pretty much right over us," said Pearland band member Karleigh Fletcher. "I was just surprised, if it was really pesticide, why would they be doing it over 300 kids?"While there were no serious injuries, some students reported coughing, sneezing and rashes.
The Brazoria County Mosquito Control District says the pilot did not see the students.
The district claims the substance sprayed from the plane was a "low level" pesticide and isn't harmful if washed off.
They say the pesticide can drift in the air for up to a half a mile.
Brazoria mosquito control plans to continue spraying Friday morning; Pearland High will move band practice inside.
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Possible but not likely. Is that 'possible' as in a non-zero probability? Or 'possible' as in it's possible it might rain tomorrow?
And are we assuming the disease is only spread by close contact with bodily fluids? There is demonstrative evidence for airborne transmission to monkeys. No, there is no evidence for Ebola spreading by air in humans. Yet. That we know about. But I doubt everyone who has it kissed a fruit bat.
As far as microbes are concerned, you and me and the monkeys are all just big rubbery motels.
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Remember, the current track record is that the government lies to you, but also to each other. They only say what they think the big guys wants to hear. It'll be too late for the amateurs to react till its beyond containment. Hardest hit will be the blue urban areas with low information occupants. Talk about fundamental transformation. True irony.
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Based upon my recent studies of epidemiology, large means at least 1% of a population.
If you go to 0.5%, they are still talking about any where from 150K to 200K contracting the disease and with a 58% survival rate, that is 80 to 110 thousand dying...
Every where these government drones try to spin every announcement to gloss over harsh reality.
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"we had study results and a possible successful vaccine design, but it was on a Government hard drive, and they fail monthly and without backup, you know"
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Healthcare workers treating Ebola patients should wear goggles, face masks, gloves and protective gowns, according to CDC guidelines.
I read that Dr. Brantly, the ebola-infected man who is in Emory was very careful in handling patients and that he wore protective gear, gowns, and gloves. ZMAPP, isolation, and supportive care seem to have helped save Brantly and Writebol (the nurse). I don't have any confidence in anything this government says under this regime. They have lied about everything. Why should we start believing them now?
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New paper from the same guys that did the pig->monkey infection study shows no evidence for transmission in non-human primates (NHPs). (ht Instapundit)
Money quote: “The presence of transmission in the pig-NHP experiment and not the NHP-NHP experiment, both performed under similar conditions and environments, could be explained by the fact that EBOV disease in pigs is respiratory in nature with high amounts of infectious particles present in the oro-nasal cavities in the symptomatic phase of the disease which provided an opportunity for release into the environment. The moral of the story is don't get sneezed on by diseased pigs.
Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense under George W. Bush - a favorite here at Rantburg back in the day - said it best: You go with the forces you have, not with the forces you wish you had. Although military experts may have their own term for the concept, I dub it "available forces".
Just two weeks ago, the San Antonio Express-News published a story about a group of men patrolling the border in far southern Texas. They can be seen in military kit in the first 27 photos of the photo layout here (Houston Chronicle).
This activity first caught the attention of media four weeks ago when a prior service army man, Chris Davis, posted a Youtube video saying that his group intended to point weapons at border crossers, to tell them to go back, and if fired on, to fire back.
The predictable response of the press in southern Texas, as well as elsewhere, is that what they are calling the "border militias" will be aiming loaded weapons at "children" crossing into the US illegally.
Indeed, when the Huffington Post posted a "news article" linking to the photos, the reaction from commenters was mostly along the lines of calling the men at the border vigilantes, gang members and cowards. As an aside, the writer of the news article is a former member of the leftist Talking Point Memo website, which makes Igor Bobic a reliable leftist.
Criticism from the right includes criticism of individual equipment, pointing out the lack of body armor and how out of place those men appear in tactical gear.
But the most mystifying criticism comes from Mike Vanderboegh, who has tagged the border activity as ill-thought, ill-considered, ill-planned and self-defeating.
He goes on to note that a meeting had taken place, presumably in the wake of Texas Governor Rick Perry announcing he would send troops to the border, between "a retired general officer of the US Army, a former commander of the Texas National Guard, and members of responsible Texas militia units, including Three Percenters and Oath Keepers," to discuss a plan to patrol the border. Vanderboegh also notes that nothing else has come of the meeting.
The "retired general officer" must be Major General Robert Scales, who has for a long time been advocating for increased use of US military along the border, if only to temper the movement of drugs across the border. In one of his documents (I have to search for it, since I downloaded it back in 2012) he describes in feint detail how the US military special forces has been conducting long range reconnaissance patrols in the area for years.
Another ally of Vanderboegh, Herchel Smith, who said in his response that unlike Vanderboegh, he is not a nice guy, agreed that the men patrolling at the border are foolish, if only for the balaclavas. Smith admits in his blog that he, too, once advocated using the threat of firearms to turn back illegals and cartels from crossing the border.
All this seems to go back to the Bundy Ranch incident last spring, when Oathkeepers and their allies were severely critical of independent militia such as the men portrayed in the photo spread. As if in counter, the militia and Patriots there at the time were also critical of Oathkeepers and their allies for failing to properly secure the perimeter, amongst other antics.
Then as now it seems to be all about the optics. Mike Vanderboegh acts as though they are playing to a political rally where votes are at stake, rather than focusing on a real issue affecting the southern border states which has been ignored for years by both political parties.
Now, finally, something is being done about it, albeit not by the government but by men who do not know any better than to do what they think right, and it appears to grate on Vanderboegh and his allies.
Something else may well grate on him and his allies as well: in six months, if the border patrols continue, those men will have more experience patrolling in that area under desert conditions, and on their own dime, than all their critics put together. You may not like the optics, but at least they are doing something.
I spoke with Barbie Rogers of the Patriots Information Hotline, who is coordinating support for the men at the border. According to her, much of what has been written by the paid press is simply wrong. Those men are not militia, but independent Patriots who are patrolling on private land with the support of the landowners. And at the moment 13 separate teams are set all along the Texas border. Rogers told me today in an email that they are in contact with three of the teams, meaning supplies and pledges can be sent directly to them.
An additional three teams are in Arizona.
Those teams supply themselves and set their own rules of engagement. Rogers said that the teams are from all over the US. Individual members are told they can expect to be at the border for what they call "an extended camping trip."
Most startling is that none of the groups actively patrolling the border are from Texas. Seems Texas has other priorities.
These are available forces. You may not like their kit, nor the optics, but they are what is available at the moment. We can't have the 364th Seal Division at the border along with 500 M1A1 tanks and 1,000 AH-64 attack helicopters. All we have are these forces, available forces of men who decided on their own to do something.
I asked Rogers about the groups she helps and the possibility of coordinating with Texas and their forces. She replied people can contact her anytime.
Prices for rifle ammunition were mostly lower, while prices for pistol ammunition were mixed. Prices for used rifles and used pistols were mixed.
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I hope these men are videotaping their activities. If something happens, they'll want independent evidence that they behaved impeccably, or the Justice Department will involve itself with extreme prejudice.
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Best is to have the video wired to signal it directly to a cloud server(s) elsewhere so that confiscated equipment can't be erased or lost after an 'event'.
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Americans do self-organize extraordinarily well... If we came up with that in less than an hour -- and my contribution coming from someone as unmilitary as a person can be -- they'll be fine.
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I had a chance to read a book along this topic which I highly recommend;
Paul Revere's Ride
David Hackett Fischer
Oxford University Press, 1994
Like his other books, Fischer does a good job describing events surrounding the topic, in this case the American concept and origin of militia.
Follow it with his book Washington's Crossing. In fact, if you have the inclination and time, start with Champlain's Dream. This trilogy IMHO gives great background to what would become The Bill of Rights.
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The wife and I stayed in a Nashville motel a couple of days ago. My wife went out into the hall way to talk to the cleaning ladies to tell them we did not need service. Neither one of them spoke a word of English. I read the other day, a principal who required Latino children in her school to speak English will lose her job. Loses job. It doesn't seem like a great burden to learn English in the country in which you live. After all, it is the language of our country. I have no problem with militias patrolling our borders. Our government isn't doing it. Just make sure you document any threats you have to respond to. The more I know of Progressives, the more I believe they are an enemy and threat to the country.
The Health Ministry denied Thursday the appearance of another Ebola virus fever case in Jeddah and urged the media not to publish such reports without confirmation.
"We will inform the public about the development of the new killer virus in full transparency and have taken measures to protect citizens and residents from such infectious diseases," the ministry said.
Meanwhile, Abdul Aziz Al-Zahrani, the brother of the man who died of Ebola on Wednesday, blamed the negligence of medical staff at a private hospital in the city for the death.
"They delayed identifying Ibrahim's disease, resulting in his demise," he said.
He ruled out suggestions that Ibrahim had taken medicines that complicated his disease.
He said Ibrahim had stayed two days at a private hospital north of Jeddah before he was transferred to King Fahd Hospital.
He requested the ministry to conduct medical tests on all the members of Ibrahim's family to make sure they are free from the disease. The next Hajj will fall between October 2-7 2014...
Some of the world's problems may solve themselves while the researchers work frantically to find a vaccine and a cure. There's also MERS, still warming up.
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Interesting, tw. From the artic: The "same U.S. laboratories will carry out further precise and developed tests to ensure the absence of other viruses that could cause hemorrhagic fever,"
So they think it isn't Ebola, but are still worried about similar hemorrhagic fevers. Hanta virus, anyone?
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So they think it isn't Ebola, but are still worried about similar hemorrhagic fevers. Hanta virus, anyone?
I believe there are two types of tests, SteveS. A fairly quick one which appears to be indicative, I'm guessing of the 'it's probably not Ebola' type, whatever that might mean technically, and a slower, more elaborate test that is definitive, perhaps 'it's definitely not Ebola, but it is this other thing.' I'm talking through my hat on this, but that's how they seem to be reporting about things. And likely both tests can say yes to Ebola, the first tentatively, the second definitively.
But it would be nice if somebody who knows about such things chimed in with actual information...
[Iran Press TV] Bank workers in Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... have staged a nationwide strike to protest current work conditions in the financial sector, Press TV reports.
Argentina's entire banking system was disrupted by striking employees who were outraged by thousands of job cuts and high income taxes imposed on their salaries, which are already undermined by a first quarter inflation rate of 40 percent.
The demonstrators claimed that banks try to keep their high profit margins at the workers' cost.
"The walkout is our last resort, we have been negotiating thoroughly with the banks for months, but they didn't accept any demands, the financial institutions are those that must pay for the costs of the crisis not the workers," a protester told the Press TV correspondent.
Government officials have said the best way to distribute wealth is income tax.
Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers Jorge Capitanich said "those who are against the income tax are actually standing by the rich. Our government must fight for more equity and provide primary assistance to unemployed people."
Sergio Palazzo of the bank workers' union told the Press TV correspondent "recent central bank reports showed that banks doubled their profits in just one year. Then who has higher incomes, the banks or the workers? Ninety percent of the banks' workers took to the street to demand an answer to this question."
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The demonstrators claimed that banks try to keep their high profit margins at the workers' cost.
Yes, so?
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They could always nationalize the banks then the executive managers socialists can reward themselves with post inflation millions billions in job bonuses, just like Fannie Mae.
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Doubtful the Chinese scheme will work without first providing cellies, food stamps, subsidized housing, ADC, and a Planned Parenthood support scheme. Still there's no guarantee. The Uighurs are not part of the IQ-67 crowd, they'll likely see it coming.
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"The womb of a Palestinian woman is the best weapon of Palestinian People". Yasser Arafat.
And Mahmoud Abbas planned gleefully on freeing the entire land without the need for significant violence by the sheer mass of offspring produced. But they didn't account for the impact of Israeli-provided education on the birth rate, nor on the rate of emigration as ambitious Palestinians left for other opportunities, as it is said, and found themselves a few years ago a full million bodies short for their project. It would have been worse, but Hamas closed the borders to emigration altogether when they took power. Somewhere between half and three quarters of the younger generation, as I recall, would like to leave if they could.
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He was pioneering the butt bomb, a real weapons visionary he was. Invented every day after coffee with the boys. Heard he could discharge a 4" pipe bomb in under 3 seconds.
[BUSINESSWEEK] A Ukrainian has replaced a Russian at the helm of the insurgency in eastern Ukraine and declared that he wants "only moral support" from Moscow, as the Kremlin apparently tries to rebut Western claims that it is calling the shots among the rebels.
Many in the rebel ranks decry what they call Russia's betrayal of their cause, but most vow to keep on fighting even as Ukrainian government troops close in on the main rebel stronghold, the eastern city of Donetsk.
In an ominous sign that the fighting may escalate further, the new leader of the insurgency has boasted of hundreds of new recruits and says a lot of rocket launchers and tanks have been seized from a Ukrainian unit.
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Moscow's view on what is "moral" may differ from his interpretation.
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EC, you mean there's an actual Russian word for "moral"?
When was the last century it was used?
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky?
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"Fyodor Dostoyevsky?"
And that is why I worship at your feet, EC. ;-p
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[ARABNEWS] Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi only they haven't dumped him yet... faced new questions on Friday over his attitude to the media and women after he branded a prominent female journalist a "shameless woman" and told her "to know your place."
Just ahead of Sunday's presidential election which he is clear favorite to win, Erdogan savaged Amberin Zaman, who writes for the Economist and the Turkish daily Taraf, over comments she made in a television debate. She had asked the main opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu in the debate whether any Mohammedan society was capable of challenging its authorities.
Erdogan lashed out at Zaman, without mentioning her directly by name, at an election rally in the eastern city of Malatya on Thursday, calling her a "shameless woman."
"A militant in the guise of a journalist, a shameless woman... Know your place!" he declared.
"They gave you a pen and you are writing a column in a newspaper... and you insult a society that is 99 percent Mohammedan," he said, drawing loud boos from the crowd.
This is not the first time Erdogan has lashed out at journalists, who have come under increasing pressure in Turkey, which has more news hounds behind bars than any other country in the world.
The Economist released a statement in response to the salvo, saying its correspondent of 15 years was "widely respected."
"We stand firmly by her and her reporting. The intimidation of journalists has no place in a democracy. Under Mr. Erdogan, Turkey has become an increasingly difficult place for independent journalism," the statement said. Zaman responded to Erdogan through her column in the Taraf newspaper, headlined: "Be a human first!"
"You are lynching a Mohammedan woman who described what you are doing. Because women are sitting targets, aren't they?"
She said she had been the target of a smear campaign by pro-government media outlets. The US-based watchdog Freedom House downgraded the status of Turkey's media from "partly free" to "not free" in May.
Erdogan remains the hot favorite to win Sunday's election and become head of state, with the main question being if he will win outright in the first round.
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These fok's should have been suspended from NATO and cut off long ago.
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Isn't this the same approach that the Obama administration takes with 'uppity' reporters? Besides bugging their computers and sicking the IRS on them?
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Wonder what olde Rantburg ummm, associate Murat thinks about the new Turkey?
Poor Murat accepted a programming job in England or something after he left the army, discharged early, if I recall correctly, for an infected blister. But he'd admitted all along that he really wasn't military material, and Turkish universal conscription was foolish not to exempt him as not worth the effort.
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Erdogan jailed the military officers who were most likely to challenge him. Morsi wasn't able to accomplish that. Now Erdogan is working on jailing the police who investigated government corruption.
[ARABNEWS] In the aftermath of alleged forced conversion and subsequent gang rape of a 20-year-old Hindu woman who taught at a madarsa in Meerut recently, Mohammedan community leaders are of the view that Hindu teachers should not be hired to impart education at madrasas. That's probably a logical statement in Arabic.
The UP Modernized Madarsa Association (UPMMA) has decided not to appoint women from the majority community as teachers in madarsas. The decision was taken after Hindu organizations joined hands and issued an ultimatum to the Meerut district administration demanding arrest of the culprits. The committee officials and madarsa holy mans handed over a memorandum of their demands to the district magistrate in which they have called for a fair probe and demanded an effective check on elements trying to disturb peace and harmony in the area.
It seems to me the answer is to require universal child secular education to at least the fourth grade level, with the "madarsa" being a supplement for those wanting their children to also have a Muslim religious education. That would, however, require Indian society to commit the resources and make the substantial cultural change of valuing education for the benighted masses instead of reserving it for a favoured few.
The committee is of the view that a thorough investigation is required before jumping to any conclusion. Committee member and a senior lawyer, Kunwar Shafeeq, pointed out that according to some media reports the girl had reportedly denied that the signature shown in the affidavit of conversion was hers. "A probe team sent to the site of the incident told the committee they suspected there was a conspiracy against madarsas," said Shafeeq.
Coordinator of the Committee, Qari Shafeeq, also said the whole episode was nothing but a conspiracy to tarnish the reputation of madarsas. He said four days after a madrasa teacher made shocking allegations about being kidnapped, forced to convert and then gang-raped, the main accused, Hafiz Sanaullah, still remains scot-free.
Questions are also being raised over the working of Meerut police as no team has yet visited Muzaffarnagar to identify the madarsa where the victim was allegedly held captive. Neither have efforts been made to identify the people who took her there, or the hospital and doctor who treated the girl.
Qari Shafeeq said the very concept of madarsa education is to impart religious education to Mohammedan children. If the government wants to impart modern education to children, they should be sent to traditional schools. The modern madarsas usually hire teachers from majority community both male and female and here the problem arises.
Spokesperson for All India Moslem Personal Law Board (AIMPLB), Qasim Rasool Ilyas, said modern education had drawn people from other community to the madarsas. In the name of modern education, the government is trying to change the basic structure of madrasas, he said. Modern madarsas usually hire both male and female teachers.
"This may lead to repeat of Meerut-like incidents. The role of madarsas should be limited to religious education and those who want formal education should go to school." Ilyas said the AIMPLB condemned the Meerut incident and the accused involved in the gang rape and conversion of the girl should get strict punishment.
Coming down heavily on the BJP and Hindu organizations for 'poisoning the atmosphere', the committee also expressed its dismay over the soft attitude of the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Akhilesh Yadav and its officials toward these organizations, which, according to it, had taken law and order in their own hands. "The entire propaganda is to extract political mileage," alleged Ilyas.
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Conspicuously absent 1) Any kind of sympathy fr thevictim 2) Any assserrtion about the piouusmusslim erHindu pprovocateu having been castrated for the rape of an unterfrau
[TRIBUNE.PK] HYDERABAD: An anti-corruption raid on Wednesday at Tharparkar's District Health Office (DHO) has revealed the corruption and mismanagement that caused and worsened the Tharparkar drought and the subsequent loss of lives.
The raid revealed suspected embezzlement and misuse of a grant worth Rs50 million from the Sindh government that was meant to be spent 'for nutrition and therapeutic needs'. Over half of this amount — Rs26.4 million — was spent on the procurement of furniture, and Rs15.4 million on the purchase of drugs that have been kept at the DHO office for several months.
The government apparatus in Tharparkar has long been blamed for mismanaging the drought that claimed the lives of over 200 people, including children and infants. Hundreds of children died in the first three months of this year, with most of the deaths being attributed to malnutrition and a lack of health facilities at public hospitals.
The belated declaration of drought on February 28, the hoarding of subsidised wheat and the long delays in its distribution and failure to address drinking water problems, were other factors that contributed to the situation and the bureaucracy also took the rap for all of them.
Misused funds
According to the finance ministry's letter — dated March 3 — the health department was ordered to 'initiate relief operation in drought-affected areas in the Tharparkar district' with these funds.
"We have seized evidence of corruption," said an anti-corruption official, Khuda Baksh Laghari. Expressing his outrage at the suspected misuse of the funds, he lambasted the officials for misappropriating the money given for the children's health 'as if they were spoils'. "We will take action against the officials when the investigation is completed," he added.
The DHO bought medicines from seven pharmacies based in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... and Hyderabad but allegedly did so by violating public procurement rules. The cheques against the purchased medicines were issued on May 20, 2014, but the medicines were not distributed among the hospitals, Laghari added.
According to the records seized by the official, the government hospitals that were given the grants also misused the funds. The DHO gave over Rs4.2 million to Civil Hospital, Mithi and Rs884,923, Rs459,338 and Rs303,069 to the taluka hospitals of Deeplo, Nangarparkar and Chachro respectively.
The Deeplo hospital's head, Dr Manzoor Memon, said that he received the sum in two instalments, which he mostly spent on repair of the hospital's vehicles and ambulances.
The records of the Civil Hospital, Mithi show that more than Rs1 million were utilised on the purchase of fuel, Rs81,295 on daily wages, Rs79,600 on water tankers, Rs76,766 on uniforms for the staff and Rs19,286 on auto repair and maintenance. A company named Bahadur Ali and Sons was given Rs323,749 but no reason was mentioned as to why they were given the money.
A sum of over Rs1 million was spent on drug purchase and Rs1.4 million on maternity services. Interestingly, the expenditure on nutrition could not be found in the records. A hospital clerk, Bhawani Lal, was also given Rs147,000 against expenditures that were not specified.
The relief inspector assigned by the Sindh High Court, civil judge Fayaz Rabbani, has been pointing out corruption and inefficiency of the official machinery for several months. "Such instances are found not only in the health department but also in the relief work," said Rabbani. "I have submitted my findings in writing to relevant authorities but no action has been taken so far."
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Coming to a Obamacare hospital near you!!
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Coming? Look at all the failed Green initiatives that were piles of crony money to lavish on the perps.
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Though to be fair, given the sad status in recent years of Bethesda Hospital outside Washington, DC, perhaps investment in infrastructure was also long overdue.
[BOSTON] U.N.-backed tribunal in Cambodia has sentenced two top Khmer Rouge leaders to life in prison on war crimes charges for their role in the country's 1970s terror.
The historic verdicts were announced Thursday against Khieu Samphan, the regime's 83-year-old former head of state, and Nuon Chea, its 88-year-old chief ideologue.
Both men, in dire health, have denied wrongdoing.
The charges centered on the forced exodus of millions of people from Cambodia's cities and towns, and an execution site in the northwest where thousands of people were shot and buried in mass graves.
About 1.7 million people died under their 1975-79 rule, through starvation, medical neglect, overwork and execution.
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AND everyone but the UN knew what the Khmer Rouge was doing years before the MSM acknowledged it...and tried to blame it on Nixon.
The National Geographic had an article about Ankar Wat in an issue in 1973 that included pictures of a completely deserted Phenom Phen with a paragraph stating the Khmer Rouge had relocated the entire population to camps in the jungle...
THEY KNEW and did nothing until they could find a way to twist it into an anti-US narrative.
What was going on in Cambodia should have sparked enough outrage that every country on the planet would have sent troops in to stop it.
The same with the Holocaust, everyone KNEW, in Rwanda, everyone KNEW.
Not a moral bone in the body of a single UN official...
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My brother-in-laws father can hopefully now rest easy. My sister and he just got back from Cambodia, raised money and oversaw the installation of 16 wells.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[ARABNEWS] A Saudi man who frequently suffered nosebleeds has been given a rather unusual diagnosis of an extra tooth growing in his nose. 
Goodluck Jonathan
The Health Ministry denied Thursday the appearance of another Ebola virus fever case in Jeddah and urged the media not to publish such reports without confirmation.
[TRIBUNE.PK] HYDERABAD: An anti-corruption raid on Wednesday at Tharparkar's District Health Office (DHO) has revealed the corruption and mismanagement that caused and worsened the Tharparkar drought and the subsequent loss of lives.
