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This information is taken from email sent by Dr.Pillai to IMA members and intended for general information only.  No action should be taken on this basis only. The idea is to make information  available  vide spread and help people to understand things in better way. For the awareness of the members I am adding a note on BLS, based on the latest international guidelines below If a person gets a cardiac arrest ·    Ø    Immediate recognition   of   sudden cardiac arrest ( SCA) is needed o      Based on assessing unresponsiveness and absence of normal breathing (ie, the victim is not breathing or only gasping) ·    Ø     If not responding,   be prepared to use automated external defibrillator   if available o      Bystanders (lay responders) should immediately call their local emergency number (like 108/102) to initiate a response anytime they find an unresponsi...

New adoption guidelines-  Adoptions set to be faster, easier and cleaner New guidelines to make the process of adoption quicker and transparent besides cutting down on red-tape have been notified, introducing a slew of changes including treating non-resident Indians on par with Indian citizens, introducing a timeframe for adoption, monitoring of adoption agencies and introducing provision of pre-adoption foster care. A centralised databank of adoptive children, allowing single parents looking to adopt, and, treating non-resident Indians (NRIs) on par with Indian citizens are some of the revamped guidelines of the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) introduced by the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development, on 27-7-2015. The guidelines will be effective from next month. Under the new guidelines, an e-governance measure that will hasten the adoption process, and make it transparent by putting up the data of the adoptive children online, has been brought up. The C...

Supreme Court of India Kusum Sharma & Ors vs Batra Hospital &Med.Research ... on 10 February, 2010 Author: D Bhandari Bench: Dalveer Bhandari, Harjit Singh Bedi REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL NO.1385 OF 2001 Kusum Sharma & Others .. Appellants Versus Batra Hospital & Medical Research Centre & Others .. Respondents JUDGMENT Dalveer Bhandari, J. 1. This appeal is directed against the judgment and order dated 30th August, 2000 passed by the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, New Delhi (for short, `National Commission') in Original Petition No.116 of 1991. 2. The appellants filed a complaint under  section 21  of the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 claiming compe...