Surgeon’s rare feat makes hospital proud

Tata Motors Hospital has added another feather in its cap thanks to Rajesh Singh, the consultant orthopaedic surgeon.

The surgeon has conducted his 100th joint replacement surgery, at an age of 36, a rare achievement in Jharkhand and Bihar. In 2005, he was one of the youngest doctors in the country to carry out a total joint replacement surgery independently. He was 32 years old then.

The 100th patient of Singh was Matia Rani, a local resident, who was operated on Friday.

The 65-year-old patient is recuperating at the post operative ward of the hospital. “I am fine and hope to be released from the hospital soon,” she said.

“It gives me immense pleasure to achieve this feat. It would not have been possible without the support of company management,” he told.

Singh, who has trained in computer-navigated hip resurfacing surgery in Australia, wants to make the hospital a hub of joint replacement surgery in eastern India.

“We want to develop the hospital as a specialised centre for joint replacement surgery and are gradually moving towards our goal,” he said, adding that Johnson & Johnson, which monitors the growth of joint replacement surgeries, has given the hospital a higher rating compared to others in the eastern region.

The hospital is planning to procure a state-of-the-art machine next month for starting computer-navigated hip resurfacing surgery. The machine would cost over Rs 50 lakh.

The surgeon said they are focussing on upgrading facilities at the operation theatre and skill enhancement to attend to more patients. “I have started getting cases of hip and knee replacement surgeries from patients living in Ranchi, Bokaro, Chakradharpur and Ghatshila,” he said. link

Girls organize Valentines Day party for Dhoni

Ahead of the Valentine’’s Day, Ranchi girls have expressed their love for Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni by organizing a gala party here on Friday.

Clad in their favorite attires and dancing to the Bollywood tunes, the female fans of the suave Indian captain wished him luck in finding love soon.

Today, all of us are celebrating Valentine’’s Day together and have taken Dhoni with us because he is a bachelor and is from Ranchi. We hope that he will find a girlfriend soon and then we would join him in the celebration, said Nimita, a female fan.

The enthusiastic girls revealed that their list of most eligible bachelors in the nation included Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Rahul Gandhi and Yuvraj Singh; and they would love to be associated with any one of them.

After the party, the excited girls rushed to Dhoni’’s residence with roses, Valentine’’s Day cards and various gift items to pronounce their love for him.

But, Dhoni could receive none of it, as he had gone to Chennai to take part in the team selection for the forthcoming tour of New Zealand.

Nonetheless, the security guard at his residence with a twinkle in his eyes accepted the gifts from the lively bunch of Dhoni’’s fans.

We don”t have any problems with Dhoni’’s girl fans. See all of us are from Jharkhand including Dhoni. So it’’s natural for girls to react in this way, said Dinesh Chandra Gupta, a guard at Dhoni’’s residence.

Bihar Cabinet to meet at village

Perhaps for the first time in its history, the Bihar cabinet would meet at a nondescript village in Begusarai district on Tuesday as part of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's attempts to address the problems of rural masses.

Principal secretary Cabinet and Coordination department, Girish Shanker told that the meeting would be held in a "tent".

The Chief Minister decided to organise the cabinet meeting at Barbighee village after he received thousands of complaints during his ongoing 'vikas yatra'.

Shanker said so far as he remembered that the state cabinet had never met in a village, adding that all ministers and concerned departmental heads would be transported to the village in a special luxurious bus to attend Tuesday's Cabinet meeting at 2 pm.

Shanker said about 25 principal secretaries would accompany the ministers in the bus.

After the Cabinet meeting, the ministers and officials would be served traditional lunch comprising rice-dal, roti, vegetables, 'papad,' salads and sweets in 'desi' (rural) form.

The ministers and bureaucrats would be served lunch in rural way as they will have to sit on the ground instead of the food being served through buffet system on decorated tables.

Three time Bihar Chief Minister and senior JD(U) leader Jagannath Mishra said though there was nothing wrong in holding the cabinet meeting at the countryside, it would cost a heavy burden on the state exchequer.

Maintaining that it would set a wrong precedent, Mishra said Kumar's decision would open floodgates for similar demands by the locals and ward councilors for holding cabinet meetings in their areas.

On two occasions in the past, the Bihar cabinet had met outside the State capital — once during the regime of Sri Krishna Sinha and again during the tenure of Kedar Pandey at Ranchi, the summer capital of undivided Bihar.

Former Bihar minister and senior RJD leader Jagdanand Singh, when contacted, said there was no no legal binding and provision that the cabinet meeting could not be held outside the state but since the capital has a proper place designated for the purpose, the meeting is generally held here.link