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Malayali Lawyer threatens to move Indian Court against Ambassador, Consular General...
6,00000 Indians have hundreds of illegal associations and just one legal association for 200 members...says Onam Bose..
An Indian lawyer has send a public interest show cause notice to the patrons of Indian social bodies in Dubai, the Indian Ambassador to the UAE, the Indian Consulate General for allegedly misleading the Indian community about the Indian Association, and the Indian Business and Professional Council, Dubai and other Indian institutions operating in the Emirate.
K K Suresh Chandrabose, an Indian lawyer in Dubai for 30 years, claimed that the Indians in Dubai have been mislead by the Indian Government officials by making them believe that these bodies represented the Indian community. (Right..Suresh Chandrabose, an experienced lawyer, seems to be ambitious to break the strong protection offered by diplomatic immunity to the Indian embassy officials in the UAE?)
"I have already send a notice and will wait for sixty days to see a response. After that we would mobilize political support in India and as a last resort move the Indian courts," he said in a press conference. For the 600,000 Indians in Dubai there is no registered association. There are several registered associations in Abu Dhabi and other Emirates. He said the average Indian in Dubai is left out without any association, club or legal body.
However, his opponents claimed that Bose is making wild allegations against highly respected members of the Indian community, because he failed miserably in an election to an Indian businessmen's association in Dubai. Bose and a group of discontented community members feel that whenever a foreign dignitary from India visits the UAE, a few business tycoons monopolise their official hosting and get together's with the alleged patronage of the senior officials in Indian mission. "Whether it is to start new business ventures or joint ventures, one or two Indian business families monopolise everything," said the community sources.
As the allegation is leveled against the Indian mission, the objective is not just confined to the revival of a dead Indian Association, but a number of other profitable businesses like the lucrative Indian School and the Indian business association affiliated to the Indian Consulate.
"Even though there are hundreds of Associations representing the Indian community in Dubai, the Association has been termed the only legal body representing the Indian community in Dubai. I have written several complaints to the Indian Embassy and Consulate about the issue, but there was no response. Finally I am constrained to send a public interest show cause notice to the patrons of social bodies, the Ambassador of India, UAE, Consul General of India Dubai, Department of External Affairs, and the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs, for misleading the public for several years." He said a case would be registered in Indian courts, because there is no complaint against the local authorities.
Bose alleged that the Indian Association, which was hitherto projected as the only registered association for the Indians in Dubai is not an association for the Indians, but a mere "club" license of which was given to an Indian business family (in Dubai). Indian Association Dubai has less than 200 members for the past 30 years where as the concentration of Indians in Dubai is over 600,000. Due to such attitude of the officials, several Indians in Dubai formed unregistered associations and functioned as legal bodies. When several members insisted to get membership for all Indians, the Association refused to renew the membership to these members and now the matter is in Dubai courts," he added.
There are hundreds of Indian associations here, but legally they cannot print even a letterhead, the legal expert said He added that the Indian Business and Professional Council (IBPC) Dubai did not renew his membership because he questioned some of the alleged frauds.
"Funds of the IBPC was misappropriated during the first two term itself by forging the chques which was suppressed. The official who misappropriated the funds was first terminated and then reinstated, but the governing board informed the AGM that he resigned. The first ever election held was rigged to cover up the financial fraud," he said, adding that despite complaints, the Indian Consulate General hurriedly formed the governing board without replying to serious complaints.
However, the Indian mission officials have denied the grave allegations made by a former member of the association, that the Consulate was misleading the community. Last year the Indian Consulate took initiative to derecognize the Indian Association Dubai. Now we have obtained in principle approval from the local authorities to start another Indian community association, which will function like a community associationThe Indian Consulate has also reportedly stopped consular services with the Indian Association. However, the anguished Indian community members asked what was happening for twenty nine years or so before the Association was rerecognized? The diplomats have immunity but what will happen if the case is happening in Indian courts on a case filed by an Indian citizen.. if he has genuine right as the Indian constitution guarantees?
Gulf Today Report About the Issue Indian lawyer seeks association in Dubai
THE MORE than 600,000 Indians living in the Emirate of Dubai do not have an organisation representing their interests and having such a group is a matter of utmost urgency, according to senior Indian lawyer and long-time resident of the UAE KK Sarachandra Bose.
Addressing a press conference in Dubai on Monday, Bose asserted that the Indian Association Dubai (IAD), which was derecognised by the Indian diplomatic mission some two years ago, was not representative of the Indian community here.
It was licensed as a club to a business family and not an association and it had maintained a closed membership of about 200 people since its inception.
Bose said the Indian embassy in Abu Dhabi and the Indian Consulate General in Dubai had allowed the IAD to act as a representative body over the years.
Asked for comments, an official of the Indian Consulate General in Dubai pointed out that the mission had derecognised the association when it realised its status only as a club and snapped all ties with the group.
Furthermore, the official said, the consulate had secured a "permission in principle" from the local authorities to form a new group with open membership that would represent the Indian community.
"We are working on the modalities of how the organisation should function," said the official.
"A representative body is an urgent need for the Indian community to address the social needs such as legal assistance and counselling," Bose told the press conference.
He referred to the "high number of suicides and divorces" among the Indian community in the UAE.
He said the present law of the UAE does not permit the formation of such an association.
He noted that such organisation needs a minimum of 20 UAE nationals as its founders in order to secure legal status. Bose expressed hope that efforts would be launched to amend the relevant law in order to open the way for formal registration of such an association.
'Irregularities'
Bose also referred to "irregularities" in the Indian Business and Professional Council (IBPC) and contented that the year's IBPC election was also "rigged." Commenting on that charge, the Indian consulate official said the mission was not a patron of the council and it was a matter to be dealt with the IBPC, the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Bose himself.
Bose, who lost in the IBPC election, said his IBPC membership has not been renewed.
The IBPC responded to the charge by saying that the DCCI had sent an observer to the election and did not find any irregularities in the polling process. It even said Bose's membership was kept in abeyance in view of the formal complaint made to local authorities over the "malicious and slanderous" statements he has been issuing. Bose also charged that the IBPC had suppressed certain "financial irregularities."To this, an IBPC official said "it was an internal matter that was dealt with by the AGM and members had agreed to close the file." (Courtesy : Gulf Today September 19, 2006)
Indian Couple Found Hanging in Hor Al Anz Apartment
An Indian couple, Jafer and Shami, were found dead in their one room apartment in Hor Al Anz, Dubai. They were found hanging in their apartment and reportedly left a suicide note, which said they ended their life. According to relatives in Dubai, the letter, which was found in their apartment, seems to be written by the wife."He had been working as the foreman of Zina Decorations Al Qouz and there was no financial problem. They were found dead on Friday after their mobile phone was not answered for long time.
The alleged suicide note says they ended life voluntarily and nobody is responsible for the death," said Nasir, a relative. The couple left Dh 14,000 cash with the letter, which suggested that the money should be sent to his mother in Kerala. Jaffer is the fifth member of the seven members family. "The couple is married for two years. Shami was his second wife and they married only two years ago. Jaffer is survived by two children from the first marriage. They are living in Kerala. The first wife is divorced," the relative said. "Earlier his first wife was in Dubai," he added.
The couple's body is kept at the police morgue Al Qesis and a post mortem would be conducted soon. The family is keen to bury them here only. The Indian couple, Jafer (36) and Shami Salina Mansil were found dead on Friday. Friends and relatives attribute the death to undisclosed family problem. "He was a decent man and I don't know any reason that troubled the family," Nasir added. His relatives have consented to the burial here, he added.
Miracle or Success of Medical Science..?
A new Malayalam newspaper from Dubai reported the"story" of a seven month old boy, who was electrocuted during a shower and declared dead by five "doctors" of a local hospital. According to the report, a sixth doctor did a miracle and gave a re birth to the boy.
The same story was reproduced on the front page with additional inputs by an evening Malayalam Daily. An afternoon English daily too reproduced same stuff. While it is doubtful whether anybody in the medical world would call it a news story at all,. the same miracle story was smartly translated and published on the front page of a leading English tabloid, which claims to be pushing the boundaries of journalism in the Middle East.
All the initial reports about the miracle came without any quotes from medical experts or doctors. As KM reported last week such stories help to spread superstition but for newspapers which just want to increase their sales figures, it does not matter whether public believe such nonsense.Inorder to prove their point once again, the story was reproduced with an interview with the doctor who claims to have done it! Quoting a hospital staff, the second report added that another 70 years old dead patient who was revived by the same doctor!
"For a medical professional or people working in a hospital, such a story is a day to day affair. There are many cases where patients who are brought to the hospital in such "dead" or critical conditions are brought back to life. There is no element of miracle in these "stories" and it is purely the advanced scientific methods that are applied to revive the patients," says a medical source.
"A staff nurse in the same hospital was almost dead, while on duty.. Doctors treating her lost hope because she had a severe heart attack. There was no heart beat or other sign of life visible on the stethoscope. Doctors tried to revive her heart by applying small electric shock, as prescribed by medical rules. Soon the lady was alive. Sometimes slight heart or body part movements are too small to be visible on the stethoscope, ECG or other medical devices . In such cases the attending doctor is expected to be vigilant and do all the required revival techniques to save the patients life. Only after all these efforts have failed that a doctor has the right to declare him or her dead. The death needs to be confirmed with a death certificate. It is doubtful whether all the five doctors who hurriedly declared the boy dead made such an announcement after making all efforts to revive him?
Clinical death occurs when a patient's heartbeat and breathing have stopped. Since breathing is impossible when the heart is stopped, clinical death is synonymous with cardiac arrest or cardiac death. The reversal of clinical death is sometimes possible through cardiopulmonary resuscitation, defibrillation, epinephrine injection, and other treatments. Resuscitation after more than 4 to 6 minutes of clinical death at normal body temperature is difficult, and can result in brain damage or later brain death after 10 to 15 minutes even if cardiac resuscitation is successful, defines the relevant internationally accepted medical text books on death.
As is evident from ther own reports, it was a busy day in the emergency department. "When doctors are too busy, some of them tend to ignore vital facts. They want to be on the safer side," said a doctor. "In some hospitals, necessary attention is not paid, especially if the patients are of particular nationalities," he added. There are enough number of medical mistakes and errors, which rarely find space in the news.
"Longer intervals of clinical death can be survived under conditions of hypothermia. Hypothermia
also improves outcomes after resuscitation from clinical death even if body temperature is not lowered until after resuscitation. Heart action and respiratory effort are absolute requirements in transporting oxygen to the tissues. One of the main organs to suffer from oxygen starvation is the brain, which may sustain damage after four minutes and irreversible damage after about seven minutes. The heart also rapidly loses the ability to maintain a normal rhythm," says medical sources. CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) is an integral part of the revival system and the concerned doctor has effectively done it."Following cardiac arrest, effective CPR enables enough oxygen to reach the brain to delay brain death, and allows the heart to remain responsive to defibrillation attempts. If administered properly CPR can save lives but when done badly or inappropriately it can interfere with life saving operations later. "In cases of electrocution, CPR for an hour or longer can allow stunned nerves to recover, allowing an apparently-dead person to survive," says the concerned medical books.
A first responder is not authorized to pronounce a patient dead. Some EMT training manuals specifically state that a person is not to be assumed dead unless there are clear and obvious indications that death has occurred. These indications include mortal decapitation, rigor mortis (rigidity of the body), liver mortis (blood pooling in the part of the body at lowest elevation), decomposition, incineration, or other bodily damage that is clearly inconsistent with life. If there is any possibility of life and in the absence of a do not resuscitate (DNR) order, emergency workers are instructed to begin rescue and not end it until a patient has been brought to a hospital to be examined by a physician. This frequently leads to situation of a patient being pronounced dead on arrival (DOA).
All the Malayalam newspapers and an English daily which claims to be maintaining international journalism standard just accepted the doctors claim that it was a mere "miracle" and reproduced the same shit on their cover pages. A casual search in google would have directed the reporters to the scientific rational behind the so called rebirth of the boy. These papers smartly left a few dots(.... ) in explaining the scientific rationale behind such cases. In what the doctor himself terms as “a miracle”, he managed to find a flicker of life. “The body was still… and there was no heart movement found. Medically I would have declared him dead but his dad was crying so loudly and pleading for us to save his child,” the doctor told the English newspaper.. “I kept pumping his chest despite several other doctors advising me that the child had died. After about 20 minutes there was a small heart movement that was visible. That was enough. I knew that there was life,” he added. Does that statement mean, his five other colleagues, hurriedly declared the boy was dead? Isnt that a grave medical mistake? According to hospital sources, not all the five doctors could be on emergency duty and probably some were "interns", who are undergoing training after their MBBS.
There are many anecdotal references to people being declared dead by physicians and then coming back to life, sometimes days later in their own coffin, or when embalming procedures are just about to begin.
Owing to significant scientific advancements in the Victorian era, some people in Great Britain became obsessively worried about living after being declared dead. Being buried alive was a particular possibility which concerned many; inventors therefore created methods of alerting the outside world to one's status: these included surface bells and flags connected to the coffin interior by string, and glass partitions in the coffin-lid which could be smashed by a hammer or a system of pulleys (what many failed to realise was that the pulley system would either not work due to the soil outside the coffin, or that the glass would smash in the person's face, covering them in broken glass and earth).
Of late Kerala witnessed the mushrooming growth of newspapers, TV Channels and new media , which are covertly or overtly affiliated to sectarian groups. The purpose of their existence is not a subject to be discussed here, but one thing is an open secret.
Gulf Media Scan...........earlier KM Report.
Indian Presstitutes....
There is no spelling mistake...the word presstitute is not wrongly spelt. This word signifies the dark side of Indian journalism practiced outside the country..here the reference is about a new breed of journalism.
Recently the Programme director of a leading Malayalam Radio station in Dubai wented out his anger against someone who hijacked the entire radio station and its programme contents. He was anguished about the stoppage of a popular discussion programme useful to the common folks to air their problems. Following the back door entry and take over of the radio station by a marketing agency, many journalists were sacked without even serving the mandatory termination notice. The sacking was not part of staff reduction plans..instead more journalists are recruited to replace the old radiostars . Experienced or informed journalists are not in demand.
The Kerala media scene is already in a mess with every religious group and political parties competing to start their own newspapers and channels. . What is disappointing is the deteriorating standards of journalism. Even a grave medical mistake or negligence by a group of incompetent doctors is reported as a miracle! Stories like a live child who was declared dead (by a group of incompetent doctors) returns to life miraculously! The boy was in fact admitted toa hospital following an electric shock. For newspapers the boy survived as a real miracle. "Defeating Medical Science, a dead child returns to life"screamed the headline that occupy half of the front page. Of course editors are hard pressed to sell newspapers with juicy stories, but that should not be after compromising the basics of journalism...
The journalist never consulted a doctor - not even one of the five inefficient marons - who dared to declare a live boy as dead. They did not consult the fifth doctor who treated the boy! These newspaper reports projected a Good Samiritan who helped the boy's father to reach the hospital on time as a messenger send by the Almighty! At last the boy was treated in Indian hospitals and Ayurvedic centres. While the reporter missed and messed up the miraculous story, even the editors dont use their rational mind to raise any questions about these type of stories...
How the Indian press is handling such cases...NDTV News
Rahul Shrivastava
Tuesday, January 15, 2002 (Lucknow):
Hospitals are known to save people from death but a Lucknow hospital actually did things the other way around. Sukhlal is virtually a dead man living. Currently in the UP government's TB Hospital in Lucknow, his condition is said to be critical. But for his family, the fact that he is alive is a miracle considering that doctors at the hospital had declared him dead on Saturday.
"At about 7 o'clock, they said he was dead. He was then sent to the morgue and his wife was told. At 2 o'clock, his family was told to bring a car and take the body," recalled Munnalal Gupta, an eyewitness and a fellow patient.
Sukhlal was actually sent to the morgue and the mistake was only discovered when his family went to collect his body eight hours later and discovered he was breathing. His wife had left for their village in Hardoi to prepare for the last rites.
"She had no money to go home and she did so by selling flour. We brought a car and when we went to get the body, we saw him breathing and realized he was alive so we called the doctor," recounts Sukhlal's son, Guddu.
The Chief Medical Officer is looking into the matter but two days after the incident, the inquiry remains incomplete.
"I went and saw that the man was alive. So far, there has not been enough time for a proper enquiry. We will be able to ascertain what happened only after that," stated H P Kumar, Chief Medical Officer, Lucknow.Immediately after being told that Sukhlal was alive, the hospital authorities asked the family to return the death certificate. Now, other patients are however leaving the hospital, for fear the same mistake may be made with them too.
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Medical mistakes cases referred - United Arab Emirates: Saturday, June 10 - 2006
The UAE Ministry of Health has referred 35 complaints from patients alleging mistakes in their treatment to the Abu Dhabi National Insurance Company, reported Gulf News. The complaints have been reported by patients and investigated over the past six months. The cases have been passed to the insurance company in order to handle any compensation if it is awarded by the courts. Is Your Hospital Gambling With Your Life?International Peace Day?
Gulf Air has joined hands with the Regional Institute for Active learning (RIA), Bahrain, to celebrate International Day of Peace, being observed worldwide on 21 September.The airline will be displaying the peace message, 'Peace! One Day at a Time, painted on cloth with palm prints by children with special needs at the RIA along with supporting banners in its Bahrain lounge and check-in counters on the day. "It is a small gesture, which we believe will go a long way in getting the message across," says Gulf Air Vice President Marketing and Sales Lee Shave.
"The youngsters’ imprints and the message, Peace! One Day at a Time,' confirm the importance of peace and unity in the world."Last year, on the day, Gulf Air carried giant doves of peace on its flights, which were made by the RIA students."We are very thankful to Gulf Air for its support in this cause," says RIA Principal Christine Hasan."In these troubled times, this message is very relevant, especially when spread through children. It is like the children saying, 'please let us have a peaceful world.'
The United Nations (UN) formally established an annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence, which was named the UN International Day of Peace, fixed in the global calendar on 21 September. All sectors of society are encouraged to honour and celebrate the Day.
RIA, established in 1999 as a non-profit organisation, caters to the needs of students with communication disorders and, the RIA Centre has been promoting and spreading the concept of peaceful co-existence and respect as one of its basic tenets. The centre engages students, at a very young age, in community as well as school based peace projects.
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