Aishwarya Vijayan

[Phoenix @Velvetyvirgo]

A note for all my non mutual followers, basically men:

I'm not your dear. I'm not obliged to answer your every reply, or DM. I'm not going to follow you just because you do.

I've got amazing mutuals. When I resonate with someone I follow them. Pls unfollow if you're unhappy🙏

[Allek @AllekWest]

My father was ninety-one when we moved him into an assisted living facility in Florida. He hated it. He hated the food, the room, the schedule, everything. One afternoon I was visiting during lunch when an elderly man at the next table dropped his tray. Then he dropped it again. A staff member sighed and said, “Sir, you have to be more careful.” The man looked humiliated. He stopped trying to eat. Then a teenage kitchen worker came out from behind the counter.

[Ramya/Divya Spandana @divyaspandana]

“In her prime," as if women come with an expiry date. Who decided a woman's prime is the handful of years she looks like a magazine cover? Our bodies change through pregnancy, perimenopause and life itself. That isn't decline. That's living.
Prime isn't a waistline. It's strength, wisdom, work, joy and everything you've built. Katrina is in her prime. So is every woman reading this. A woman is in her prime from the day she's born to the last day of her life.

And to those saying "but look at her bank balance" so a woman with less money can be body shamed? Or "she's had a baby, so the weight is okay" so if she hadn't, it wouldn't be? What bakwaas justification is this?

A woman's body doesn't need a bank balance or a reason to be off-limits for shaming. No conditions, no exceptions. Body shaming is wrong. Full stop.

[Bhadohi Wallah @Mithileshdhar]

'मेरे पत‍ि कंपनी की तरक्‍की के ल‍िए द‍िन-रात काम करते थे। द‍िवाली-होली जैसे त्‍योहारों पर भी उन्‍हें काम करना पड़ा। मेरी सर्जरी के समय भी उन्‍होंने काम क‍िया। कंपनी को अपने जीवन के 12 महत्‍वर्पूण साल द‍िए। द‍िन-रात काम क‍िया। उन्‍हें 20 साल से ज्‍यादा का अनुभव है। वे कपंनी के सबसे बेहतर कर्मचार‍ियों और परफॉमर्र में से एक रहे। मैंने उनके जैसा मेहनती इंसान नहीं देखा, बावजूद इसके कंपनी ने उन्‍हें महज एक मेल भेजकर तत्‍काल नौकरी से न‍िकाल द‍िया और उन्‍हें यह तब पता चला जब वे अपने स‍िस्‍टम में लॉग इन नहीं कर पाये।'

ये पोस्‍ट दुन‍िया की द‍िग्‍गज आईटी कंपनी ओरेकल के कर्मचारी रहे सौरभ साहू की पत्‍नी पूजा साहू ने लिंक्डइन पर ल‍िखा जो इस समय चर्चा का व‍िषय बना हुआ है। दरअसल ओरेकल ने एक बार फ‍िर छंटनी की है। सुबह 4 बजे कंपनी ने अपने एप से सब को लॉगआउट कर द‍िया। 5 ब���े गेट से इंट्री बंद हुई और 6 बजे 2500 कर्मचारी को तत्‍काल प्रभाव से हटाने का मेल भेजा गया। कंपनी इससे पहले भी 21 हजार लोगों को बाहर चुकी है।

[Sann @san_x_m]

A government clinic in Bagalkot had no doctor from March until September.

Patients kept turning up. The post was filled on paper.

The doctor assigned to it is the niece of the local MLA.

Her name is Dr Ankita Yaragal.

She was the medical officer at the Namma Clinic in Wambay Colony in Bagalkot, Karnataka. Namma Clinics are the state's neighbourhood health centres, meant to give people basic care near home instead of sending them to a district hospital.

According to a notice issued by the Bagalkot Zilla Panchayat, she was absent from that clinic from 3rd March until September, and during that period she was pursuing a postgraduate MD course at a private medical college.

The notice says she continued to receive more than 70,000 rupees in salary or honorarium.

Doing both at once is called unauthorised dual engagement, and government rules do not permit it.

Her uncle is Umesh Meti, the Congress MLA for Bagalkot.

Now the parts that complicate it, because they matter.

The principal of S Nijalingappa Medical College had reportedly granted her permission to pursue the course.

Her father, Dr Rajkumar Yaragal, has disputed the salary allegation. He says she has not received any salary since joining the postgraduate programme.

Her father is also the District Health Officer. He is the official who has now removed her from duty. His role in her original appointment is itself being examined.

She was called to an inquiry before the Zilla Panchayat CEO and did not attend. She has been directed to appear on 18th September with documents and a written reply.

Nothing has been decided. This is an allegation, not a finding, and she has not yet given her account.

If the allegations are established, officials have said the entire amount could be recovered and the matter referred to the Karnataka Medical Council and the National Medical Commission.

But the part worth holding on to is not about her.

A public clinic sat without a doctor for roughly 6 months.

Somebody approved the leave. Somebody signed the attendance. Somebody released the payments, month after month. Somebody was supposed to notice that a health facility serving a colony had nobody in it.

None of those people are named in any of the reporting.

It surfaced only because people kept going to a clinic and finding it empty.

[Krish Ashok @krishashok]

Unfortunately, this experiment proves nothing. If you take the same chocolate and put it in a Bain Marie (double boiler) and apply gentle heat, it will melt.

Cocoa butter melts at around body temperature. Applying some 1000+ C rapidly just means that the cocoa butter melts super fast at the bottom and just gets distributed into the sugar + milk solids, which don’t melt like cocoa butter / they just lose water and char.

[Hari @HaricharanJaya2]

Today my daughter’s school bus took 2 hours to travel just 2 km in Varthur/Gunjur road.

For those 2 hours, I sat there as a parent feeling completely helpless.

I work hard. My wife and I pay lakhs in taxes every month. We took a huge home loan mainly so we could live close to our daughter’s school and give her a safer, easier childhood.

And yet, this is what “2 km from school” means here.

In the last year alone, we have seen a school bus topple, a woman suffer serious injuries after a fall, a biker almost lost his life after falling because of a pothole, and many more incidents that never become headlines.

Every day, ordinary people here tweet, email, complain, follow up and plead with authorities.

We are not activists.
We are not fighting for a political party.
We are parents, employees, families and taxpayers asking for one basic thing:

Please give our children a safe road to come home on.

Today, more than the traffic, what broke me was the feeling that despite doing everything a responsible citizen is supposed to do, I had absolutely no power to protect my own child.

If anyone knows how ordinary citizens of Varthur/Gunjur can reach someone with the authority to actually intervene, please help us.

@krishnabgowda @DKShivakumar @MALimbavali @ArvindLBJP @GBA_office @BECCUPDATES @ChristinMP_ @RamSNarayan @GunjurCharan @RisingVarthur @BDAOfficialGok

#varthurisbleeding

[Tukaram Mundhe @Tukaram_IndIAS]

The most expensive part of a hospital bill may never touch the hospital at all.

A patient admitted for care has no way of knowing whether the price on a medical consumable reflects its actual cost or a markup fixed long before it ever reached the ward. That gap in information is, at its core, a public health issue.

A survey of hospital consumables in Maharashtra found an IV infusion set with a trade price of ₹11.05 carrying a printed MRP of ₹325 ; a markup of 2,841%. A syringe procured at ₹6.75 carried an MRP of ₹57.20. A catheter procured at ₹29.41 carried an MRP of ₹310.

These are not elective purchases. Patients cannot compare prices, seek alternatives, or question a number printed on a box while receiving care and the MRP itself is often fixed upstream by manufacturers and distributors, disconnected from the trade price by a wide, unexplained margin. The result is a system where the party bearing the cost has the least information to evaluate it.

The regulatory gap is structural: scheduled medicines are capped under the Drugs (Prices Control) Order, 2013. Most medical devices and consumables are not leaving both the pricing and the information around it almost entirely unmonitored.

A review of these findings and clear guidelines on the permissible gap between trade procurement price and declared MRP have been recommended to the Department of Pharmaceuticals and the NPPA ; a step toward closing not just a pricing gap, but the information gap patients are left to bear alone.

#PublicHealth #GoodGovernance #Leadership #TukaramMundhe

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[Arun Bothra 🇮🇳 @arunbothra]

While the accused Veeresh Jain deserves the harshest punishment, the affected patients and their families deserve the whole truth.

Which doctors and hospitals were involved? Who benefited from these suspiciously cheap medicines? Which patients were administered the fake drugs, and what were the consequences?

Every affected patient and family must be identified, informed and given access to the evidence necessary to pursue criminal cases against all those found responsible.

[Dr. Dhananjay Singh Tomar @DstDhananjay]

> Bro is IPS Deepak Gahlawat, Haryana Cadre
> Product of IIT Roorkee

~IPS officer.

Deepak Gahlawat allegedly demanded ₹3 crore to “fix” the CBI case for N Raja ~the man running a ₹5,000 crore fake medicine racket.

Took ₹1 crore advance through Chennai hawala.

Delhi Police inspector Pradeep Kumar Singh already caught with cash as the middleman.

While a father mortgaged his house, watched his son die of cancer, and now lives with the nightmare that maybe the medicines were fake…

“Were the medicines real… or was my child injected with poison while I paid with my home and my tears?”

Officers who are supposed to protect us are allegedly protecting the people poisoning us.

This is not just corruption.

This is murder by system.

How many more fathers will bury their children while the protectors take bribes from the killers?

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

This was the most depressing news in a long time. Fake and poor quality medicines and relabelled drugs are not new to India. It has led to death of children and adults in large numbers across decades and is a pressing concern. But this was another kind of monster. Calculated, premeditated and utterly vile - to do this to patients, especially cancer patients, most of whom take loans to pay for their treatments.

The investigating team MUST be transparent about: the timeline, drugs and their (labelled) brand names, type of formulation (injectable and non-injectable) batch number and manufacturing details and clinic/hospital these were allotted to and the patients who received them (including duration).

I think the public deserves to know how this has affected them/ family members. Many people would have died because they were on the fake drug - people who should have survived and lived long with proper care. India is a place of disgust. Septic tank of the world. People do inhuman things for money.

[A. @acharjee_speaks]

Cancer drugs are costly enough to empty a bank account and bankrupt a family. But here we live in India, where everyone wants to make money through corruption. They don’t even think twice before selling fake medicines.

These people deserve the death penalty.

[Aishwarya Vijayan @AishVijayan]

@DumasWrites Isn't it normal ..have become a habit to check kiddos pockets for waste paper which they bring back on their way home from school..

[N. Ram @nramind]

Apology -- This is a screenshot of the front page of today’s Delhi edition of The Hindu. The apology that appears on this page has been published on the front page of all the editions of The Hindu.

[Aishwarya Vijayan @AishVijayan]

@Purba_Ray Hope u take care of urself coz u r so honest n posting this!!!

[Ray Stings @Purba_Ray]

A pharmacy owner in our neighbourhood who also happened to go the same gym as me was always flexing his wealth - Mercedes, big parties and soon got arrested for supplying fake cancer drugs.

Guess what, he’s back - hosted yet another big party attended by some mutuals.

In India there’s a whole ecosystem that helps criminals thrive.

[Parminder Singh @parrysingh]

“What a loser. Completely lacks ambition.”

There was a time I judged people by their ambition. Good people were ambitious. Slackers were just slackers.

Experience teaches you otherwise. A person’s worth and their level of ambition are completely unrelated.

The cameraman who just wants to shoot. The accountant who enjoys keeping books. The teacher who loves teaching primary-school kids. They may have no desire to become a director, CFO or principal. Which is perfectly fine.

I’ve come to respect people for who they are, not for who they want to become.

Not everyone needs to be going somewhere to be someone.

[Aishwarya Vijayan @AishVijayan]

@Fried_Papad Ya i got it..didn't see u for a while so thot ll check on to u...

[Aishwarya Vijayan @AishVijayan]

@Malanggav4 Sad to know they did what d police and law failed to do!!! Sad state of affairs wid law!!