Haryana trader’s murder mystery solved, 2 arrested
PURNIA: With the arrest of two persons, the Purnia police on Thursday claimed to have solved the murder mystery of Haryan businessman Krishna Mohan Kapoor. The arrested persons have been identified as Rajesh Kumar and Bitesh Kumar alias Bechan, residents of Purnia. One Mukesh Yadav, who did business with the Universal Company, before it went to Kapoor has been identified as the main conspirator. Kapoor, 60, a Karnal based businessman dealing in agricultural tools of Ms Universal Company, was shot dead in his shop near Khushkibagh under Sadar police station of Purnia district on November 9.
DHANBAD: The state government will launch an ambitious health project to screen women in urban areas for cervical cancer in six districts from next week.
Sources said health secretary Nitin Madan Kulkarni had given his go-ahead to launch the programme, called ‘Save Maa Project’. In the first phase, the project will cover urban areas of Ranchi, East Singhbhum (Jamshedpur), Dhanbad, Bokaro, Hazaribag and Deoghar.
Jharkhand has become second state after Jammu and Kashmir to launch cervical cancer screening project for urban women.
Non-communicable disease (NCD) nodal officer (Jharkhand) Dr Lalit Ranjan Pathak on Thursday said each district had been allocated 300 diagnostic kits in the first phase. While Deoghar, Hazaribagh, and Bokaro have already received these kits, Dhanbad, Jamshedpur, and Ranchi will get them within two days.
The Project will be implemented in collaboration with Jerath Path Lab of Haryana under corporate social respon- sibility (CSR). Path Lab technical teams will conduct test samples and provide reports to the state health department.
Dr Pathak said screening camps will be held up at all urban community health centres (CHC) and district hospital every Wednesday. Jerath Path Lab will collect samples from each district the following day (Thursday) and send reports in 7-10 days. Training has already been imparted to health personnel concerned.
According to Dr Pratibha Roy, the head of the gynaecology and obstetrics department in Patliputra Medical College Hospital (PMCH), women aged between 42 and 50 are prone to cervical cancer. Major reasons of cervical cancer are early marriage and giving birth to a large number of babies, she said.
Dr Pathak said if programme becomes a success in urban areas, it would be expanded in rural area too.