Category: Nagpur Local

Nagpur: The Indian Railways are geared towards meeting the demand for critical goods by increasing the number of parcel trains.

Parcel trains are essential for the rapid mass transport of drugs, medical supplies, masks, food products, etc. across the country.

Eight parcel trains have been running on critical routes since 29 March. The railroads have now agreed to expand them to another 20 lines. One of the special trains will pass via Nagpur on 1 April. Schedule of another parcel train between Kalyan-Santragachi has yet to be confirmed.

The Covid-19 special will launch from Kakaria (Gujarat) on 31 March and enter Nagpur on 1 April at 9:00 p.m. via Jalgaon and Bhusawal. There will be stoppages in Gondia, Durg, Raipur, Bilaspur, Jharsuguda, Tata Nagar, Kharagpur and Sankrail (Kolkata).

“Railways is providing its unimpeded parcel train services for the transport of critical goods and other goods required to meet the needs of people in the wake of Covid-19,” said Central Railway spokesperson SG Rao.

Both the Central Railway and the SECR are carrying out their own plans to operate these parcel trains. They reach out to prospective clients through various forms of communication, including ads.

Such facilities can be used by industrial houses, corporations, any interested parties, organizations and individuals. Interested parties can approach the parcel office for registration.

Meanwhile, SECR has started a quarantine facility with 11 beds in its civil defence hostel in Motibagh for suspected coronavirus patients.

“Our control office is working round-the-clock to run freight trains and is also preparing an empty balancing of passenger trains, so that when passenger rains start connection rakes are available at originating stations,” said SECR DCM Anurag Singh.

As mentioned by TOI, the Central Railway, Nagpur, is converting the entire rake of 24 coaches to retain Covid-19 suspects and patients. On Saturday, the Railway Board also asked the zones to hire contracted paramedical staff on the basis that they would not surpass the approved intensity of the system.

Since the Railway Board expects an increase in the number of coronavirus cases, the divisions have also been required to employ either retired paramedical personnel or to make new appointments.

Railway guards contributing 2-day salary The All India Guards Council (AIGC), a registered trade union representing Indian Railway guards, has agreed to donate Rs65 crore to the PM-Cares Fund to fight against Covid-19. About 32,000 guards are going to donate their 2 days pay. The balance is to be recovered from the salaries of April and May. “Considering discharge of their duties under the most defamous conditions of service and the possibility of viruses, freight train guards have also come forward to contribute,” said SK Shukla, AIGC chairman.

Nagpur: Finally, India is all set to get the first batch of Covid-19 indigenous research kits on March 25. This may be the biggest turning point in the battle against coronavirus outbreaks because our test capability would increase significantly. Interestingly, one of the brains behind the creation of this ‘Made in India’ diagnostic kit is Dr. Gautam Wankhede, a Nagpurian.

A graduate of the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Dr. Wankhede is educated in the United Kingdom, where he specializes in transfusion medicine. He is the son of Dr. Ravi Wankhede, who was a pioneer in the preparation and use of blood components in Central India in 1989 and later led the Zonal Transplant Coordination Center (ZTCC), Nagpur, as its secretary for several years.

“Mylabs is planning to produce the first batch by Thursday. We currently have a production capacity of 15.000 tests a day and we will soon be rising it to 25.000, “said Dr. Wankhede. This is credited with introducing some pathbreaking developments in India, such as molecular blood grouping and antenatal red cell antibody screening.

“We already have raw materials and have been developing molecular diagnostics for the last three to four years. So, we can start supplying the kits right away. Many of the components used in our kit come from India, “he said. A few products are imported from other countries, but not from China.

Apart from Mylabs, the German company Altona Diagnostics has applied for an import license from the Drug Controller General of India. But this company will not be able to start shipping lab kits before next week.

Talking to TOI, his proud father, Dr. Ravi, said, “Gautam was inspired to take transfusion medication as he followed our blood bank activities very closely. After coming back from the UK, he worked with Fortis-Escorts Hospital and then went on to the industry side, “he said.

Dr. Gautam has been active in the production and patenting of the Haemovigil Transfusion Safety Program, which is currently being used in leading hospitals across India. Most of the country’s renowned laboratories use ID-NAT screening kits for blood banks/hospitals, quantitative HIV, HBV and HCV kits, all developed under his supervision.

Mylab aims at generating up to 1 lakh test every week. Furthermore, the company says that its test kits are capable of evaluating approximately 100 patients with a single sample. An average laboratory with automated PCR can examine more than 1,000 patients a day.

Matter of pride Mylab is the first Indian company to get commercial Covid-19 PCR kit approved by CDSCO Mylab Covid-19 test kits to cost nearly one- (up to Rs1,500) of currently purchased kits It uses advanced protocols that can reduce testing time by 65% and yield results in 2.5 hours This kit can detect coronavirus with the least chance of false positivity.

“कोरोना ” या तीन शब्दांनी संपूर्ण जग सध्या हादरल आहे त्यात अनेक प्रकारचा सामना आपल्याला करावा लागत आहे, यात अनेक देश सध्या या रोगाचा सामना  करत आहे , यात संपूर्ण देशवासियांची एकच हाक  ऐकायला मिळत आहे ती म्हणजे  (#भारतको #जिताना हैं #कोरोनाको #हरानाहैं*) आज सकाळी ७ते रात्री९ पर्यंत जनता कर्फ़्यू निमित्त घरी होतो. आपण दिवसभर चहा,पाणी,जेवण,सगळ काही केल. पण राहून राहून एक विचार सतावत होता कि रस्त्यावर, आहेत त्यांच् कस?  आपल्या सुरक्षित ते करता जे दिवसभर तैनात होते.

अश्या आमच्या पोलीस बांधवाना,आणि गरीब,तसेच बाहेरील राज्यातील अडकलेल्या आमच्या काही बंधु बांधवांना मोहित हिरडे नचिकेत काळे ,केतकी काळे, यांनी मिळून मसाले भाताचे व पोळी भाजी याचे वाटप केले.पोलीसांची परवानगी घेऊन एक छोटीशी मदत करण्याचा प्रयत्न केला. विशेष म्हणजे मोहीत हिरडे यांनी 21ला रात्री सुद्धा अश्या प्रकारच्या खाद्य वाटप केले.पर्वा २२तारखेला  मोहित हिरडे,नचिकेत काळे ,केतकी काळे आम्ही तिघांनी मिळून रात्री ९,३०ला अन्न वाटप करण्याचे ठरवले, त्यात आम्ही पोलीस स्टेशन रेल्वे स्टेशन,वरील अडकलेल्या बांधवांना अन्न वाटप केले,आणि काल सकाळी आम्हाला आमचा अजून एक मित्र जॉईन झाला मंगेश कुर्हेकर,प्रशांत कारळकर,स्मिता महाजन,उषा राखडे, तसेच आता आम्ही जे ३होतो ते आता सावित्री विहार येथील सगळे परिवार या कार्यासाठी एकत्र आले आहेत.

जेथे आम्ही राहतो तेथील प्रत्येक घरात आम्ही आव्हान केले की ३पोळी प्रत्येक व्यक्तीने आणून द्या याला छान प्रतिसाद देत.आमच्या येथील महिलांनी आम्हाला मदत केली. काल सकाळी आणि रात्री ही आम्ही,सोनेगव, बजाज नगर,सीताबर्डी, पोलीस स्टेशन मध्ये आणि रेलवे स्टेशन वर अन्न वाटप केले,सैनीटाइजर, मास्क् पण, काल रात्री पोलसांचा फोन आला आणि आम्ही त्यांनी सांगितल म्हणून थाबलो.त्यानी म्हंटल आम्ही फोन करु तुम्हाला तेव्हा परत सुरु करा.आम्ही पोलीस बांधवां सोबत आपण सर्व सुरक्षित राहावे. आणि आपल्या पोलीस बांधव तसेच बाहेरील राज्यातील अडकलेल्या लोकांना मदत व्हावी या शुद्ध उद्देश्याने हे काम करतोय.तेव्हा आपणा सर्वांना विनंती माननीय पंतप्रधान,आणि मुख्यमंत्री यांनी आवाहन केलेल्या   प्रत्येक गोष्टी सहाय्य करा. कृपया घरी बसून देवाला प्रार्थना करा. की या जगाला संकटातुन मुक्ती दे. या साठी चैत्र नवरात्रि सुरु  आहे. तेव्हा श्रीराम जयराम जय जयराम हा जप करा.हे सर्व काम आम्ही रीतसर पोलीस प्रशासनाच्या परवांगीने करतोय.