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On a routine visit to the Thalassemia Day Care Centre at IGICH today I came across a distressing piece of news. The Doctors told me that one of the child who was coming to the day care for a few weeks now has been sent back home from the ICU. The look on the faces of the doctors told me that it was no reason to celebrate. Even as they acknowledged the little help that was offered to take care of the expenses on the medical tests that had to be outsourced, what followed was completely shocking!

Zinda rehne ke mausam bahut hain magar, Jaan dene ki rut roz aati nahi.

 Husn aur ishq dono ko ruswa kare, Wo jawani jo khoon me nahati nahi.

Aaj dharti bani hai dulhan saathiyon, Ab tumhare hawale watan saathiyon…

On 13th August 2012, India opened a $12 million, government-backed laboratory whose mission is to create a new vaccine against HIV. The HIV Vaccine Translational Research Laboratory, which aims to recruit about 30 scientists, is embedded within the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, a $200 million facility under development on the outskirts of New Delhi. It will work in collaboration with the New York based-International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI); operating costs will be shared equally.

There has always been a debate if there is an overuse of blood products. The resulting overuse of blood is problematic, and may do worse, if given transfusions prematurely or unnecessarily.On the other hand, it has also been experienced that in patients who undergo major surgeries, specially cardiac surgery, severe perioperative bleeding is seen.

Captain Gurbachan Singh Salaria was born on 29^th November 1935 in village Jangla near Dinanagar in Pathankot district, Punjab. His father was Chaudhary Munshi Ram Salaria.

He had the dream of making the country self-sustained in milk production. He had a dream of improving the life of hundreds of thousands of marginalized dairy farmers in the country. He had a dream of making a co-operative so powerful that even corporates can’t compete with it. He was the Milkman of India. He was Dr Verghese Kurien.

Man is capable of achieving so much. A few good men have always been able to do things which are beyond imagination for most. With a firm belief in themselves, men create history. One such rare tale is the battle of Saragarhi when an army of 21 Sikh soldiers, in a lonely communications post, made a gallant stand against an enemy 10,000 strong. Fighting to the last man, they created the lasting legacy of human bravery and valour on the battlefield.

This blog post is realated to Project Prayas- Relief for Flood Affected Assam.