Judiciary has strengthened the Constitution: PM at Guj HC event
AHMEDABAD: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday praised the Indian judiciary for its role in safeguarding people’s rights, upholding personal freedom, and fulfilling its role in strengthening the Constitution.
Addressing a virtual event to commemorate 60 years of establishment of the Gujarat high court, the Prime Minister said the judiciary has served the rule of law by protecting the
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court judge MR Shah on Saturday described Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the “most popular, loved, vibrant and visionary leader” at a virtual public function to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Gujarat high court.
“I am glad and feel proud and privileged to participate in this important function of release of commemorative stamp of Gujarat HC on completion of 60 years and that too by our most popular, loved, vibrant and visionary leader, Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendrabhai Modi,” said justice Shah.
NEW DELHI: Twenty-one kidney, liver and heart patients from Myanmar arrived at New Delhi’s Apollo Hospital on Friday in a chartered flight arranged by the hospital, indicating that medical tourism that was hit by the Covid-19 pandemic has started picking up again.
Most of these patients are lined up to undergo organ transplants, and had been waiting for months for travel restrictions to ease.
Medical tourism in India had been steadily growing over the past few years. Data for 2019 and 2018 showed at least 6% of the overall tourist flow to India was of people arriving for treatment.
While the ministry of tourism is yet to make public data on international patients who arrived for treatment to India in 2020, most hospitals that had 10-15% of their patient rush from overseas said they did not see the usual rush of international patients last year. “The percentage of international patients dropped substantially last year; it is picking up this year but very gradually,” said Dr Yatin Mehta, chairman, Institute of Critical Care & Anesthesiology, Medanta hospital.