Hindustan Times (Delhi)

Judiciary has strengthen­ed the Constituti­on: PM at Guj HC event

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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.

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