Monthly Archives: February 2014

FICCI Ladies club hosts charity fashion show in Hyderabad

Arts, Culture & Entertainment

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A popular city hotel oozed style, elegance and grace as members of a ladies organisation in the city turned up in full attendance for a fashion show.

Organised by the members to raise funds for the education of girl child, the event saw ladies strut down the runway in style. Wearing elegant ensembles created by designers, the entire show was a hit as the onlookers cheered on the participants.

Trust Hyderabadis to even do charity in style!

source: http://www.articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> Entertainment> Events> Hyderabad> FCCI / TNN / January 30th, 2014

Prime Hospitals performs rare complex surgery to re-implant amputated arm of a 12-year girl

Amazing Feats, Records, All, Science & Technology

A team of doctors led by Dr Anurag Chitranshi from Prime Hospitals performed a highly complex surgery to re-implant an amputated arm of a 12 year old girl in Hyderabad.

The doctors from Prime hospitals acted in the right time and conducted a successful surgery to re-implant an amputated arm for the first time in Andhra Pradesh. Usually in many such cases, the other half of the amputated part of the limb becomes non-functional and useless unless an immediate medical care is given.

After eight long hours of the complex surgery the doctors declared the surgery as a rare success and the 12 year old girl is fast recovering as veins and arteries are functioning properly by supplying blood in to the re-implanted arm.

Going in to details, Thanishka was brought to the emergency department at Prime Hospitals in Ameerpet, on December 10, 2013 at around 1:30 pm with accidental entrapment of right arm in an elevator.

Preliminary examination showed her hand to be amputated at a level just above the wrist and she was bleeding from the amputation stump but conscious and co-operative all the while. The amputated arm was brought in a plastic bag put in a thermacol box filled with ice pieces and ice packs, as is desired for a successful re-implantation. The doctors in the emergency department resuscitated, stabilized her and did dressing for the arm. The amputated hand was sent to the operation theatre immediately.

The re-implantation surgery took a marathon of eight hours by a team comprising of plastic surgeon Dr Anurag Chitranshi, orthopaedic surgeon Dr Sathish Reddy and Dr BSV Raju, neurosurgeon & director to operate on her. Initially she was giving general anaesthesia and the arm bone was fixed. Subsequently the veins, arteries, nerves and tendons were repaired and the surgery was completed. The blood circulation was re-established in the cut hand within 6 hours of amputation. She was discharged after a two weeks stay at the hospital with the limb surviving in its entirety.

The expeditious presentation of the patient at the hospital, preservation of the amputated hand in a clean bag, with the bag surrounded by ice cubes, the immediate attention of the team at casualty and expertise of specialist doctors at Prime Hospital in promptly re-implanting and ensuring arterial blood flow, is what helped in salvaging the arm, says Dr Anurag Chitranshi.

source: http://www.pharmabiz.com / PharmaBiz.com / Home> News> Hospitals & Clinics / by PharmaBiz.com Bureau, Hyderabad / Friday – January 31st, 2014

India’s largest cold storage firm, Gubba, hosts frozen food conference

Business & Economy, Records, All, Science & Technology

Gubba Cold Storage (Andhra Pradesh’s first cold storage company, which was founded by Gubba Nagender Rao) hosted a conference for the frozen food industry recently. Its topic was ‘The Exciting Future of the Frozen Food Industry’. It holds the Limca record for being India’s largest cold storage company (with a capacity of 83,00,000 cubic feet, thanks to Nagender Rao’s successors, Gubba Kiran and Gubba Prashant).

Dodla Dairy’s Sunil Reddy unveiled the record at the event, which was attended by Alfa Laval’s Razween Ahmed; Frick’s Sudhir P; lean management expert Ganesh; Emerson’s Chetan Shetty; Food Cert’s Sri Hari Kotela; Dr Kulkarni and Scoops Ice Creams’ Sudhir Shah, and focussed on the current scenario of the industry, the challenges faced by it and the role of technology.

Gubba is working on an innovation in refrigeration technology with Eesavasya Technology (which was unveiled at the event by Dr Feroz). Dr Kulkarni unveiled the latest issue of the Gubba Frozen News, the company’s news magazine which has a print version (managed by Gubba Rajyalakshmi) and an electronic version (managed by Gubba Deepthi).

source: http://www.fnbnews.com / FnBnews.com / Home> Top News / by FnBnews Bureau, Mumbai / Friday – January 31st, 2014

After Hyderabad success, Amplifon India launches state-of-the-art Hearing Care Clinic at Visakhapatnam

Business & Economy, Science & Technology

Vishakakpatnam :

Amplifon India Pvt Limited, one of the world’s largest hearing care solutions service providers today announced the inauguration of its Clinic at Visakhapatnam. This is one of the largest hearing care clinic in this region designed as per the International standards. Amplifon is renowned for its international quality standards in hearing care solutions. In addition to this new facility in Visakhapatnam, there are more than 90 Amplifon Clinics spread over India including Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Hyderabad, Chandigarh and Delhi. Visakapatnam Clinic represents Amplifon India’s entry into Seemandhra in Andhra Pradesh and will serve people of the entire region.

Spread over an area of approximately 700sq. feet, Amplifon Clinic is the largest private clinic to be established in Visakapatnam and surrounding areas. The clinic offers comprehensive pure tone audiometry test, Impedance audiometry, Oto acoustic emission test, Hearing Aid Trial, Speech Therapy and Free hearing Screening & other special Hearing & Audiology Tests. A study of the demographics and hearing problems prevalent in Visakhapatnam, has led Amplifon to establish a state-of-the-art Clinic in Visakhapatnam. The prevalence of deafness in India is fairly significant. It is the second most common cause of disability. Approximately 63 million people (6.3%) in India suffer from significant auditory loss. While there have been no studies to indicate that more and more people are developing hearing problems, doctors say in recent times many youngsters have started complaining of noise pollution-related disorders. There is a need for International standards of hearing care solutions to be able to fight with the problem of hearing.

Speaking at the inauguration, Mr. Samit Verma, CEO & Market Director, Amplifon India said “Hearing loss is more common than anyone can think. One out of twelve (1/12) persons in India suffer from hearing loss. In fact, over 60% of people in their 60’s suffer from hearing loss and many would benefit from using a hearing care solution. To bridge the gap between people suffering from hear loss and to provide them with best hearing care solutions, we have launched Amplifon Clinic in Vishakapatnam. We are confident that Amplifon Clinic will contribute significantly in fulfilling the audiology & Hearing Care needs for the residents of Vishakapatnam. Our goal is to provide the global standards of quality for hearing care services through our class audiologists trained as per our International Protocols and state-of-the-art hearing care diagnostic solutions. Getting a hearing loss solution is not an easy decision and therefore as an Amplifon’s valued client, customers receives complete hearing care solutions services that perfectly match their lifestyle and budget.”

A gradual hearing loss can often make people feel isolated as they find it difficult to carry on conversations with family or friends. It can make us isolated and withdraw from social interactions. Importantly, it can also increase risk both at home and at the workplace, for example, not hearing a warning alarm. The real benefits of receiving the right hearing care solutions are many – they include enhanced communication, higher self-esteem, improved personal safety and enjoying some of the little things in life such as hearing the waves on a beach or the birds sing in the morning or giggle of grandchild.

Committed to improve the hearing capabilities through excellence in client care, treating hearing loss and, where appropriate, hearing care solutions provider in worldwide. The brand is entrusted with providing the best customized hearing care solutions to every patient. Where appropriate, patients are also provided with ‘test drive’ of different technology and if the patient decides to go ahead, trials of hearing care solutions services are offered with full satisfaction guarantees.

The Clinic is equipped with advanced diagnostics infrastructure, a furnished setup for all types of audiology tests, sound proof hearing test, patient counselling, hearing aid trial & fitting services and a 10 people seating capacity interactive reception area, screening room, sound proof room, details counselling and trial room, ready to serve hot water and cold water, CCTV monitoring, rest room, computerized reporting, pure tone audiometry test, impedance audiometry, special tests, Oto acoustic emission test, hearing aid trial, speech therapy and free hearing screening. The testing lab is laden with the latest equipment capable of performing multiple tests for speech and Hearing. The testing Lab also accommodates a bed for testing “Audiometry Brain-stem Responses” in infants and instruments for Middle Ear Analyzing for all age groups.

Address of the clinic
Amplifon India Pvt Ltd. , 28-1-9,  Opposite Sudha Nursing home, Prakash Rao Peta, Vishakakpatnam,   Pin Code: 530020 / Phone: 0891-6648999

source: http://www.afaqs.com / afaqs! / Home> News> Other Brief / Category: Corporates / Visakhapatnam – February 11th, 2014

Nurturing cricketing talent

Sports

ACA North Zone Academy grooms talented cricket players of the zone

A dusty road branches off from the main road after the MVGR College of Engineering at Chintalavalasa, a suburb of Vizianagaram and immediately in front of you is a pleasant view of a billiards table top-like lush green ground and a two-storied building behind it. This is the Andhra Cricket Association’s North Zone Academy established to groom the talented players of the zone. It started functioning from June last year.

The residential academy has all the facilities like 10 nets including one with a cement pitch, a bowling machine and all facilities, decent lodge and boarding facilities for the players in the two storied modern building, a kitchen and dining room. The coaches have separate rooms.

A view of the ACA North Zone Academy ground at Chintalavalasa./ Photo: K.R. Deepak / The Hindu
A view of the ACA North Zone Academy ground at Chintalavalasa./ Photo: K.R. Deepak / The Hindu

The academy is located on a 10-acre land allotted free of cost by the MVGR College of Engineering, being run by the MANSAS, a trust established by the Vizianagaram royal family long time ago to run educational institutions and conduct charitable programmes for the people.

This academy caters to Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam and East Godavari districts (which form North Zone of ACA). Players from Vizianagaram and Srikakulam in particular lack exposure though they are talented and this Academy takes care of such players, says vice-president of ACA and chairman of the academy G.J.J. Raju.

The academy was started with a budget of Rs 8 crore and so far nearly Rs 5 crore have been spent. A single storied building is coming up at the other end of the ground which will have modern dressing rooms for two teams, a gym, rooms for umpires and other officials on the ground floor and four dormitories and 16 single rooms on the first floor. This would accommodate the two teams playing a match on the ground and Ranji and other matches could be hosted here, Raju says.

Later six more nets would be provided along with a proper fence around the ground, though galleries are not planned yet. The two blocks are named after secretary of Vizianagaram District Cricket Association G.V. Ramachandra Raju and former treasurer of ACA late P. Appala Raju. A total of 32 boys in under-14, under-16 and under-19 age groups selected from the four districts are in the academy now.

The ACA is also taking care of their education and the Raghu institutions are providing free education while a few are going to another private college at Dharmapuri and a private school.

Trainees of the ACA North Zone Academy rexaling at their dormitory at the hostel /. Photo: K.R. Deepak / The Hindu
Trainees of the ACA North Zone Academy rexaling at their dormitory at the hostel /. Photo: K.R. Deepak / The Hindu

ACA established academies in its three zones and this is the first time in the county, says former Andhra Ranji captain M.N. Ravikumar, who is the Zonal Head of the ACA. He is confident that the boys will get a lot of benefit from the academy under chief coach Apoorva Desai, a coach much in demand at the National Cricket Academy. Nirmal Kumar and Vikram Varma are the other coaches and Shashikanth is the trainer.

Zonal Head of ACA North Zone M.N. Ravikumar, coach Nirmal Kumar, Chairman of ACA North Zone Academy G.J.J. Raju and Chief Coach Apoorva Desai./ Photo: K.R. Deepak / The Hindu
Zonal Head of ACA North Zone M.N. Ravikumar, coach Nirmal Kumar, Chairman of ACA North Zone Academy G.J.J. Raju and Chief Coach Apoorva Desai./ Photo: K.R. Deepak / The Hindu

“The boys are very talented, focussed and hardworking and we are helping them to improve their skills and mental strength,” said Mr. Desai.

A leg-spinner Ch. Y. Srikanth from Rajahmundry and a batsman Ch. Jogesh from Visakhapatnam say the academy has brought about a lot of changes in them. The coaching, practice matches, constant motivation and the international standard facilities have improved their game a lot, the two boys said.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Features> MetroPlus> Society / by G. Narasimha Rao / Visakhapatnam – January 31st, 2014

Gonds throng Nagoba jatara

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ROOTED IN THE TRADITION: The Bheti Koriyal fetching holy water to the Nagoba temple as a ritual before start of the jatara at Keslapur in Adilabad district on Thursday./ Photo: S. Harpal Singh / The Hindu
ROOTED IN THE TRADITION: The Bheti Koriyal fetching holy water to the Nagoba temple as a ritual before start of the jatara at Keslapur in Adilabad district on Thursday./ Photo: S. Harpal Singh / The Hindu

The start of the famous Gond adivasi pilgrimage event, the Nagoba jatara at Keslapur in Indervelli mandal of Adilabad district was a solemn affair on Thursday as the devout engrossed themselves in religious activities.

Gonds and Pardhans of Mesram clan arrived to the holy place from Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh besides all from all corners of this district.

Rituals performed

In the morning, the group of Gond and Pardhan elders who had fetched holy water from Hastina madugu of river Godavari in Jannaram mandal were given a traditional welcome under the old banyan tree. They later moved to the Nagoba temple with devotees trailing them.

The Kathod priests then handed over the sacred earthen pots to 45 Bheti Kodiyarks or the mesram daughters married in different clans for fetching water from the sacred well located near the banyan tree for rituals of purification of the temple and making of anthills symbolic of the serpent god.

In the night, the Gonds performed the Mahapuja of Nagoba, also known as Persa Pen or great god, which marks the actual beginning of the annual tribal fair. Integrated Tribal Development Agency Project Officer Janardhan Nivas also participated in the prayers.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> National> Andhra Pradesh / by Special Correspondent / Keslapur (Adilabad District), January 31st, 2014

Luther takes a trip down the memory lane

Arts, Culture & Entertainment, Historical Links, Pre-Independence, Records, All
Dean of School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Aloka Parasher Sen alongwith the author Narendra Luther, at the launch of 'Legendotes of Hyderabad' in Hyderabad. PHOTO: NAGARA GOPAL / The Hindu
Dean of School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Aloka Parasher Sen alongwith the author Narendra Luther, at the launch of ‘Legendotes of Hyderabad’ in Hyderabad. PHOTO: NAGARA GOPAL / The Hindu

Written by the former civil servant, ‘Legendotes of Hyderabad’ combines the legends and anecdotes that populate the city of Hyderabad

The City of Nizams is steeped in legends that greet a curious soul willing to take a break from the modern day hustle bustle, author and former civil servant Narendra Luther observed on Thursday.

Combining the legends and anecdotes that populate this historic city, Mr. Luther wrote a book ‘Legendotes of Hyderabad’. The book was released by Dean of Social Sciences at University of Hyderabad Aloka Parasher Sen at a function held here.

“Everything regarding this city has its own legend and it was my endeavour to weave through these legends in this book. While historians go through the highways to chronicle historic events, I went through the lanes and bylanes of the city to construct its history,” Mr. Luther said.

Terming the book an engaging easy-read, Dr. Sen said the book brings out the role played by the oral traditions, anecdotes and legends in the process of making history. Traditionally history has been based on official documents and inscriptions that were considered as solid facts, but historians have started to realise the importance of oral traditions.

While history attempts to give explanations, the oral traditions speak about the perceptions and this book can act as a bridge between both these aspects of writing history, she said.

The book release function was followed by a short skit played by a team of theatre artists who read out some interesting facets mentioned in the book.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Hyderabad / by Staff Reporter / Hyderabad – January 31st, 2014

E-treatment catching up in Visakhapatnam

Business & Economy, Science & Technology, World Opinion

Visakhapatnam :

No more waiting for long hours in serpentine queues to consult doctors at their clinics or hospitals as they are just a mouse-click or smartphone button away. E-treatment is the latest medical trend catching up in city with today’s tech savvy, educated, hard-pressed for time urban patients getting their reports checked or seeking medical advice and e-prescriptions from equally tech-savvy doctors online via smartphone apps like WhatsApp, social networking sites like Facebook, email, MMSs and SMSs.

Cardiologist Dr D K Baruah, director (Cathlab) at Apollo Hospital, said, “The e-treatment fad is picking up among the educated, urban patients of the city and could emerge as a popular trend in the next three years. We keep getting emails with medical reports like echo-cardiogram attached asking for diagnosis. The requests are mainly from working couples, especially those in the fields of IT and software, who also seek appointments and send reports of their children online. As many as six-eight such online cardiac cases come every month.” “The biggest advantage of e-treatment is that it saves precious time and travel expenses for patients and enables them to plan the cost and mode of treatment in advance. It also gives the doctor and patient enough time to mentally prepare and reduce stress as well.”

Some doctors have also formed WhatsApp groups to discuss cases and the best mode of treatment, as Dr B Leela Prasad, who specialises in orthopaedics and sports medicine, pointed out. “Orthopaedic doctors from the region have started a WhatsApp group recently to discuss patients’ reports and cases among the medical fraternity, friends and colleagues. We are also increasingly getting X-ray reports from tech-savvy patients through Facebook or WhatsApp messages or emails seeking a second opinion about surgeries or when a medical emergency like fracture takes place when they are out of station.”

Though time saving e-treatment has its advantages and uses, doctors caution against indulging in self e-treatment by relying on online information as misleading results can cause needless panic and stress. “While e-treatment is good for seeking a second opinion and can be used during emergencies when the patient is out of town, they should not solely depend on it as clinical examination by the doctor is always better for accurate results,” said Dr Prasad, who is also the secretary of North Andhra Orthopaedics Association.

Even Dr M Radhika, consultant gynaecologist at Manipal Hospital, is sceptical about treating pregnant women and gynaecological problems the e-way. “I do get enquiries through text messages about minor problems from my old patients who are based in the US and Dubai. But these are patients who I have clinically examined and who had been under my treatment earlier and I’m well acquainted with their medical history. Only for such patients do I suggest remedies or prescriptions through phone or messages but I wouldn’t advice e-treatment for new, pregnant patients.”

Elaborating on the two sides to e-treatment, general physician Dr Kutikuppala Surya Rao averred, “e-treatment is of two types. When the patient himself or herself searches online on his ailment and accordingly tries out treatments, it often leads to disaster. Every week we get a case or two like that. Recently, a panic-stricken woman came to me saying that she had a lump in her breast, which according to information available on the internet, was breast cancer. However, it turned out to be a fat lobule or adenoma, which can be treated non-surgically or through fine needle aspiration biopsy.”

On the other hand, e-treatment can be extremely beneficial for people living in remote areas as it can save commuting time and, thus, lives during an emergency and is also helpful in second opinions. “Some time ago, a friend of mine sent me a photograph of his ulcer-affected tongue from London. The doctors had diagnosed it as cancer and advised immediate surgery. But on examination of the case, I found it to be a stress ulcer that can be treated with vitamins, amino acids and other medicines. Accordingly, I sent him an e-prescription and he is completely cured,” said Dr Rao.

source: http://www.articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Visakhapatnam> Medical Advice / by Sulogna Mehta, TNN / January 29th, 2014

A link to the long-lost glory

About Seemandhra / Andhra Pradesh, Arts, Culture & Entertainment, Historical Links, Pre-Independence, Leaders
Historian M.A. Qaiyum with the coin minted during the Ibrahim Quli Qutub Shah rule that he chanced upon on a pavement in Old City. - / Photo: Mohammed Yousuf / The Hindu
Historian M.A. Qaiyum with the coin minted during the Ibrahim Quli Qutub Shah rule that he chanced upon on a pavement in Old City. – / Photo: Mohammed Yousuf / The Hindu

450-year-old copper coin of 3 Qutb Shahi ruler found

The missing link is finally here. M.A. Qaiyum, noted historian, could not hold back his surprise when he recently came across the 450-year-old copper coin minted during the rule of Ibrahim Qutb Shah. Curiously, the historian stumbled upon the rare coin on an Old City pavement.

Coins of the third Qutb Shahi king, Sultan Ibrahim Quli Qutb Shah, had been conspicuous by their absence. Even the A.P State Museum, which boasts thousands of copper coins of the erstwhile rulers, drew a blank when it came to those dating back to 1550-80 when Ibrahim Qutb Shah ruled.

“It’s a rare find, as coins of that period are not available in the museum,” says Mr. Qaiyum, who got it for a song.

Inscription

What adds substance to the coin is the legible inscription on it. The obverse side has the name, ‘Sultan Ibrahim Quli’, inscribed, and the reverse sports the legend, ‘Ghulam-e-Murtuza Ali’.

The coin, which weighs about 12 gm, represents an excellent piece of calligraphy. The style is quite similar to the Arabic inscriptions seen on the Qutb Shahi tombs.

According to numismatists, only six coins of the Ibrahim Qutb Shah period are available as of now.

But, it is not known as to what legend they bear and when they were issued.

The 6 coin, published by Hurmuz Kaus, an ancient coin collector, is of small size and bears the legend, ‘Juloose Jaiz Ibrahim Quli’, on the obverse and ‘Sadatmand-e-Ali’on the reverse . The coin was issued from the Golconda Mint in 1565 A.D.

The recently discovered coin bears the distinct legend of the ruler, Ibrahim Qutb Shah, in Arabic style. Scholars believe him to be the first Sultan to issue coins in his own name in the Qutb Shahi dynasty.

But, many do not subscribe to this view, as only one coin of Subhan Quli and four coins of Jamsheed Quli, the immediate predecessors of Ibrahim Qutb Shah, are available.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Hyderabad / by J. S. Ifthekhar / Hyderabad – February 09th, 2014

On a mission to restore vision

Inspiration /Positive News and Features, Nri's / Pio's, Science & Technology
The visually-impaired children from Chittoor district at Gowthami Eye Institute in Rajahmundry. / Photo: S. Rambabu / The Hindu
The visually-impaired children from Chittoor district at Gowthami Eye Institute in Rajahmundry. / Photo: S. Rambabu / The Hindu

Rajahmundry-based Gowthami Eye Institute with the help of North America Telugu Association has undertaken surgeries to restore eyesight to children identified by the RVM under ‘Çhinnari Choopu’

A ten-year-old boy became totally blind as he was taken to a quack who administered some poisonous herb in the eyes for treating some ailment. But the surprising factor is that the father who took him to the quack was not an illiterate but a Central Government employee who could have taken the child to a doctor instead.

There are hundreds of parents, especially in the rural areas, who are dependent on quacks for treatment ignorant of the resultant consequences. Villagers of Gudipalli, Putturu, Gudikothuru, Santhipuram and Nimmanapalli mandals in Chittoor district continue to believe in this kind of treatment and as a result the eyesight of more than 150 children from these mandals was affected. However a ray of hope came in the form of North America Telugu Association (NATA) which has taken up the mission of restoring their eyesight with the help of the Rajahmundry-based Gowthami Eye Institute.

It was under the Rajiv Vidya Mission (RVM) the district administration had taken up ‘Chinnari Choopu’ programme in three phases. In the first two phases, the RVM took up massive campaign to identify children with eye defects with the help of Inclusive Education Resource Teachers (IERTs).

RVM’s initiative

After a detailed survey seven thousand children below 18-years of age were given spectacles by Raghavachari, Ophthalmologist, Government Hospital, Chittoor. Former project officer of RVM Maheswara Reddy took the onus of implementing the two phases and the programme was later consolidated by the ent project officer Lakshmidevi. However, IER Teachers M. Kumar, Sattarwada in Puttoor mandal and M. Ramaiah of Gudipalli took all the children from their native villages and travelled about 500 kilometers to reach Rajahmundry with the support of their district coordinator Krishna Mohan Reddy and his assistant Lavanya.

The USA- based Dr. VK. Raju, who is the founder chairman of Gowthami Eye Institute, visits India twice in year. He came to know about the RVM’s ‘Chinnari Choopu’ programme and asked his team head Dr. Madhavi and executive director P. Madhu to undertake surgeries for all the 74 children. His initiative is getting able support from NATA.

About 16 children all below 14 years and from below poverty line (BPL) families reached Rajahmundry’s Gowthami Eye Institute on Sunday, where they would be operated upon in next three days. In the first batch 17 children got operated out of 74 children who were referred by Ruia Hospital, Tirupati.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> National> Andhra Pradesh / by BVS  Bhaskar / Rajahmundry – January 30th, 2014