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Black holes of psychiatric rehabilitation

Edit The Times of India 11 Oct 2016
CHENNAI. Against the drab backdrop of the dusty colony in KGL Nagar, Minjur, the bright hoarding of a private `de-addiction cum rehabilitation centre' is conspicuous. It reads. New Life Choice. The building, located at a dead-end, is no different from other houses in the remote locality ... The room is bereft of furniture except for a table, a few chairs and broken cots with ripped mattresses. The smell of disinfectant pervades the air....

Mental health cringes in touts’ alley

Edit The Times of India 09 Oct 2016
The voice on the other end identified himself as John, managing director of New Life Choice, a private psychiatric nursing home at Minjur. "Our facility is much better than IMH. Ask the warder. We will even come and pick up the patient," he said ... Many of the patients are referred to 'homes' run by former attendants at IMH who have set up their own private units on the city's outskirts like Red Hills, Ponneri and Minjur ... RELATED....

Unlicenced psychiatric clinics make a killing

Edit The Times of India 09 Oct 2016
CHENNAI. Only eight private psychiatric clinics and nursing homes, and de-addiction centres have licences to operate in the city. But a google search reveals more than a dozen that don't feature in the list. And the story gets murkier ... Most of these private centres have come up on the city's outskirts like Red Hills, Ponneri and Minjur ... Click here to download it for your device. RELATED....

Chennai: Bones of youth recovered, murder took place 21 days ago

Edit Deccan Chronicle 05 Oct 2016
Chennai ...   ... Police recover a skull. (Photo. DC) ... Based on inputs from the family, Minjur Police picked up a gang of 7 persons from a Melur pocket near Ponneri and the gang confessed to have abducted and murdered Vinoth ... On Tuesday, Minjur Police scoured the tracks between Anuppampattu and Minjur railway stations managed to locate a skull, a dislodged jaw and a thighbone from the bushes in the vicinity of the tracks near Akkarampedu ... ....

Chennai: Hospital's negligence, quack treatment leads to 9-yr-old’s death

Edit Deccan Chronicle 04 Sep 2016
Chennai. “I will come to the hospital only if you buy me a chocolate”, Hemalatha told her father when he was trying to prepare the nine-year-old for the trip to the Institute of Child Health and Hospital for Children in Egmore on Friday morning ... “By the time Hemalatha was taken to the Minjur hospital on September 2, she had already developed shock and convulsions, which meant acute central nervous infection ... ....

Another child from Tiruvallur dies of fever

Edit The Hindu 03 Sep 2016
A nine-year-old girl from Siruvakkam village in Tiruvallur district died at the Institute of Child Health (ICH), Egmore, on Saturday. This is the seventh death of a child from the district in the last three weeks. D. Saminathan, director of ICH said the girl, A ... “She came in with convulsions. She had had fever for around 10 days ... Dr. Saminathan said Hemalatha had been referred to the hospital from the Minjur primary health centre ... ....

Tiruvallur girl dies of meningitis, officials call for crackdown against quacks

Edit The Times of India 03 Sep 2016
Chennai. A nine-year-old girl of Tiruvallur district died of bacterial meningitis at the Institute of Child Health in Egmore early on Saturday, triggering alarm ... "If the fever hadn't exposed it we would not have known how dangerous the scene is," said a senior DMS official ... Hemalatha's father Anbalagan initially took her to a quack before moving her to a primary health centre in Minjur and the government hospital in Ponneri ... RELATED....

Fever in Tiruvallur: The why and the how

Edit The Hindu 27 Aug 2016
Even as M ... Aravindan is getting ready to move him from the Tiruvallur government hospital to Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital in Chennai ... Also, certain areas of the district such as Minjur, Puzhal, Poonamallee and Villivakkam have a lot of development work going on, with workers migrating back and forth, working on construction sites, while at the same time, families continue to rear cattle and work in agriculture too, he said....

BSNL unveils 4G plan for city

Edit The Hindu 23 Aug 2016
BSNL will set up about 300 4G towers in Chennai by March 2017 to enable the public sector enterprise to provide 4G mobile services, a top official of Chennai Telephones, a part of BSNL, said on Monday. “We will also be entering the 4G space ... Ms ... Kalavathi added ... Ms. Kalavathi said Indian Bank had adopted two villages in Minjur and Athur under their Corporate Social Responsibility programme, to provide digital access ... ....

Waste-to-energy plantsclose to being a reality

Edit The Hindu 19 Aug 2016
The work on preparation of a detailed project report for the facility in Kodungaiyur and Perungudi started in June after the government shelved the solid waste management projects proposed in Kuthambakkam and Minjur. The civic body had identified 99 acres of government land in Kuthambakkam and 69 acres in Minjur-Vallur three years ago ... ....

Installing CCTV Cameras at Railway Stations (Ministry of Railways of the Republic of India)

Edit Public Technologies 12 Aug 2016
Thomas Mount, Ambattur, Chennai Park, Pallavaram, Velacheri, Villivakkam, Nungambakkam (flag), Chrompet(flag), Saidapet, Thirunintravur, Minjur, Pazhavanthangal (flag), Ponneri, Kodambakkam, Tiruvanmiyur, Gummidipundi, Tambaram Sanitorium (flag), Pattabiram (flag), Chennai Fort(flag), Tiruvottiyur, Korattur (flag), Veppambattu (flag), Vyasarpadi ......

Explore using desalinated water: Baig

Edit The Times of India 11 Aug 2016
Mangaluru. Minister for urban development and Haj R Roshan Baig is a big votary of the use of desalinated water to meet burgeoning potable water needs of the cities ... The state capital of Tamil Nadu presently has two desalination plants at Nemmeli and Minjur and a third one proposed again at Nemmeli ... RELATED....

Port-Rail Connectivity Projects Undertaken by IPRCL (Ministry of Shipping of the Republic of India)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Aug 2016
(Source. Ministry of Shipping of the Republic of India). Twenty two Port-Rail Connectivity Projects are being undertaken byIndian Port RailCorporation Limited (IPRCL) for providing last mile connectivity to the major ports. Out of these projects, implementation has commenced for five projects ... Details of project undertaken by IPRCL. (Rs. In Crores). Sl. No. Port. Name of project ... Status ... Northern rail link from Minjur station to Kamarajar Port....
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