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Time to look into the ill this, as they did under National Latest Gujarat results show after another — Uttar Pradesh, Recognising Jerusalem
newsmaker Meet the 20-year-old whose slogan derailed Modi’s developMent caMpaign 30 ` side of private hospitals Health Policy this year. Rahul is emerging strong Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat as Israel’s capital is
issue
23&24 With reference to the report “Delhi’s 5-star And there should be clear With reference to the cover story “Modi, Shah — Rahul Gandhi seems delirious worrisome
Volume 14 hospitals: Much ado about nothing” guidelines to monitor such hit a sixer” by Charanjit Ahuja and Ridhima and not worried. The decline in
31 dec 2017 Fools rush in where angels
New delhi by Charanjit Ahuja (December 31) Malhotra (December 31)
First Delhi government took private hospitals so that they The Bharatiya Janata Party may voter percentage among various fear to tread is exactly what
very strong action against bring their house on order. have won Gujarat for several groups, namely, patidar, OBC, US President Donald Trump
Shalimar Bagh-based Max What is really worrisome times in a row now but Gujarat, Dalit, appears no concern to has done, and not surprisingly,
hospital and later stayed the is the fact that if such is the considered to be a citadel of him. One recent survey noted by recognising Jerusalem as
decision to make a mockery and situation with well-known the BJP, has left the party with a that if general elections are the capital of Israel. The move
nothing else. names like Max and Fortis then slightly bloodied nose. Coming held now or later, 79 per cent of will spark-off near universal
Delhi Health Minister what would be the situation in two days after Rahul Gandhi’s the electors will vote for Modi backlash even from the US’s
election Satyendar Jain, while not-so popular hospitals who elevation as party chief, the against 15 for Rahul Gandhi. own traditional allies.
Modi, Shah pronouncing his decision earlier are mushroomed in each corner Gujarat results gave him some m ratan By doing so, Trump has
hit a had said that this particular of our country. These so called breathing space. If the party’s Artificial pitch may add sought to legitimise the forceful
big hospitals need to live up to
occupation of East Jerusalem.
tally had gone below the 2012
hospital is a habitual offender
sixer hence justified the extreme their names. Bal Govind figure, opponents and critics to the hockey popularity Even his worthy predecessors
With reference to the report “Sheer dominance
had refrained from carrying out
BJP holds on in Gujarat for the sixth time in close fight with punishment, then why did he would have declared him a of Indian hockey in Asia” by Manmohan Singh such a step given its complex
Congress; registers a facile win in Himachal Pradesh 16 and his government turned the ‘lameduck’ party president and a (November 30)
decision after a few days? There is a need to display in ‘gift’ for the BJP. Hockey legend Floris Jan international and diplomatic
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We need to understand bold letters a Statutory Warning Bovelander’s suggestion that ramifications.
23&24 Cover election.indd 1 18/12/17 6:36 PM But still, any fair assessment
that it is not an isolated case. outside each private hospital of the results will grant that hockey should move away from It is also noteworthy
The poliTics There have been many other as “Be prepared to become some of the accretion in the being played on an artificial that India has not chosen to
insolvent -Patient may die but
comment on such a reckless
of fake news cases of severe negligence and our bills never die.” Congress vote this time was pitch surface if we want to see decision, probably fearing a
hockey being embraced by
overcharging the patients. Such
essentially due to anti-BJP
The cost of a sickness is now
careless practices are rampant in millions in India as per bills of rallies of Hardik Patel, Jignesh many more nations is worthy dent to New Delhi’s growing
closeness to the Trump
India is a multi-lingual nation. amongst private hospitals. most private Hospitals. Private Mevani and Alpesh Thakur, who of serious consideration by the administration. This silence,
game’s administrators.
We know that public
presented themselves as leaders
More local media, both print health care infrastructure in hospitals provide five-star of their respective castes. I recollect an interview which has unarguably
facilities naturally charging
compromised the country’s
Finally, what the verdict
and electronic, should look our country does not inspire seven-star expenses. Many means? The issue of quota could by another hockey legend, independent foreign policy,
Islahuddin of Pakistan, who
confidence and these private
at all aspects of pan-national healthcare institutes literally times, without proper medical be back in the political discourse spoke of the move by European should be a matter of deep
care and attention required by
opinions which are reasonable treat their patients and families patients. with the Congress’s promise of hockey bodies to impose “the concern. sk choudhury
artificial turf only” in the game’s
like a cash cow.
in language. It is the key to These hospitals not only raise The real picture of reservation for Patidars having scheme as having sounded the
helped it to consolidate in Patel
fighting fake news. huge bills, abnormally charge Government hospitals is belts of Gujarat. That should be a death knell for subcontinental Ever since Israeli’s “occupation
best known to public. The
of East Jerusalem”, the West
Further, freedom of speech but are insensitive to the core administration must improve worrisome issue. ks padmanaBhan hockey. Asian region has been volatile,
towards the patients and their
The charm of field hockey,
can only be controlled when families. with accountability and with its beautiful passes and having witnessed much
responsibility in State run
It is an open secret that
political parties stop playing these institutions are run like hospitals and on all other Repeated assertion of Congress astute dribbling, has been lost bloodshed. The protests and
clashes in West Bank and
for ever with the introduction
vote-bank politics. Politicians a commercial business set up departments. president Rahul Gandhi that of this tailor-made surface. It Gaza following Mr Trump’s
the Gujarat election results
Can poor and middle class
themselves must not campaign where integrity and moral even think of such costly were a severe jolt to the ruling is now a game with a curved declaration are a reminder
of the troubled past. Though
in the accusative. Rather, they values does not feature in their medical care? party and Prime Minister cricket bat. No other major Mr. Trump has stirred up a
priority list at all.
sport has been as tinkered with
Narendra Modi as they have “lost
Government hospitals
can remind the people of any Only people who can afford do provide free primary and credibility” with the people of in terms of its playing surfaces hornet’s nest, it is heartening
success of their policies, past these healthcare throng to these second healthcare, but they are Gujarat and his constant attacks as hockey has. Tennis is played to see that the U.S.’s allies have
expressed their displeasure
on different surfaces which
on Modi, ridiculing his claims of
hospitals and when they are
or present. Divide and rule is fleeced like this what alternative overcrowded and ill-equipped, success for his vikas model, and includes the famed grass courts and disagreement. It may be
the source of untrustworthy do they have? None. thus prompting many people then, in the same breath, trying of Wimbledon. The ICC has an unpleasant truth to foresee
who can afford to opt for private
a potential for terrorists to
It is about time when the
promises. government seriously takes hospitals. to take a high moral ground, never thought of allowing any capitalise on the present chaos.
other surface other than a green
saying that ‘one can defeat
J RogeRs huge strides in fulfilling its The number of Government opponents only with love and turf for official cricket matches. The ball is in the court of the
promise of providing healthcare hospitals must multiply in every brotherhood’, seem hypocritical. It is so in the cases of football UNSC to try and convince
facilities to one and all at city/ town and in villages to It is beyond belief that and rugby. Why be so blinkered America to retract the
affordable price and draws a serve the poor. instead of introspecting for about hockey? declaration.
clear road map for achieving mahesh kapasi his party’s electoral fiasco, one v jaGadeesan s arjun prasanna
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