Indian shot dead in US by robbers
10 Feb 2008, 0002 hrs IST,Parvesh Sharma,TNN
LUDHIANA: A month after the killing of two brothers from Patiala in the US, another Indian has been murdered there.
Reports reaching here said robbers shot dead Surinder Kumar Goswami, who had migrated to the US eight years back from Ludhiana, on Friday night at California's Vallejo City. Goswami's family said he was not a victim of hate crime.
Goswami, a cashier with the 7-Eleven chain of stores, was on-duty on Friday when some unidentified persons came to the store and asked for money at gunpoint.
"My father stood up and raised his hands, but the robbers, irritated at finding very little cash in the safe, shot him dead," deceased's son Sarbjit Singh, who had come to India last month, told TOI.
He was informed about his father's killing on Friday night. Sarbjeet plans to go back to the US on Monday for his father's last rites
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/mar/01/city-shuts-clinic-harsh-words-owners/
This is an incredible story that made headline recently. “Six patients are known to be victims, with their lives permanently altered by disease. Whether or not they have been given a fatal disease, 40,000 more are also victims, their lives will never be same.”
Dr. Dipak Desai who was on the Nevada Medical Board and part of the transition team for the Governor is accused of forcing nurses to reuse the syringes and needles and to use single does vials for multiple patients. “Certified nurse anesthetists at the business, at 700 Shadow Lane, were reusing syringes and single-dose vials of medicine for multiple patients, health officials said.”
I do not know how much money can you save by doing this. But at this time his clinic is shut down and he is facing criminal charges along with his colleagues. Sad and shameful if this is true. – Vijay Mehta
City shuts clinic, with harsh words for owners
Official: Staff told to reuse vials, syringes to save money
By Marshall Allen
Sat, Mar 1, 2008 (2 a.m.)
Turns out, it was greed.
Dr. Dipak Desai, one of the state’s most prominent physicians, willfully chose to “mortally hazard his patients for profit” by operating an endoscopy clinic fraught with cost-cutting sloppiness, a Las Vegas city official said Friday.
Desai, who was a member of Gov. Jim Gibbons’ transition team in 2006, is the majority owner of the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada, the source of a disease outbreak that’s caused the largest hepatitis C scare in the country, according to health officials, who said 40,000 people who received anesthesia while undergoing endoscopic procedures there, including colonoscopies, must be tested immediately for hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV. The clinic was one of the busiest of its kind in Nevada.
When Jim DiFiore, manager of the city’s business services decision, suspended the facility’s license Friday, he cited previously undisclosed findings by health investigators who inspected the clinic in January.
DiFiore said in a letter to the clinic’s owners that Desai ordered his nurses to reuse syringes and reuse single-dose vials of medication when administering anesthesia to patients who received endoscopic procedures. The practice, which allowed cross contamination of patients’ blood, caused six people to become infected with hepatitis C.
Desai did it to save money, DiFiore said.
The state Licensure and Certification Bureau, which oversees the ambulatory surgical center, allowed it to stay open because the dangerous procedures were corrected.
But DiFiore quoted a health investigator who said, “It’s very hard to believe that they won’t do it again,” when explaining why he was shuttering the clinic.
“The fact that, once caught, you have agreed not to engage in a technique well known to the medical community to subject patients to death or serious illness again does not persuade me that you won’t do it again,” DiFiore wrote.
Desai and the other Endoscopy Center owners would not comment for this story, on the advice of their attorneys, Abran Vigil and Alan Sklar.
DiFiore, who referred to the investigators from the Southern Nevada Health District, the Licensure and Certification Bureau and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a “tiger team,” said he was told by a CDC officer that the Endoscopy Center practices were so obviously dangerous it was like “driving the wrong way down the freeway.”
“I do not believe that there is any department of motor vehicles in this country that would not immediately revoke the driving license of a driver when given credible evidence that the driver had driven the wrong way down the freeway every day for the past four years,” he wrote.
Citing more information provided by the health investigators, DiFiore said many nurses knew the technique was dangerous to patients, but they were ordered by administrators, mainly Desai, “to engage in the practice in order to save money.”
Some followed Desai’s orders and risked contaminating patients with life-threatening diseases, while others disobeyed him, DiFiore wrote.
Desai used to sit on the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners, which has now launched an investigation into the clinic, which is also owned by Dr. Vishvinder Sharma, Dr. Eladio Carrera and Dr. Clifford Carrol.
Dr. Jim Christensen, an allergist who is on the board of the Health District, said the allegations in DiFiore’s letter elevate the situation from malpractice to criminal behavior.
District Attorney David Roger promised “a massive investigation” into what occurred at the clinic.
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Duke University graduate student Abhijit Mahato was found murdered in his Durham apartment, blocks away from his school.
Friday night, Durham police responded to a call at the Anderson Apartments that someone was injured. When they arrived, they found the body of Mahato, who’s been shot to death. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Khushboo Jani's 1996 Honda broke down and she was forced to guide it over the shoulder. Like most of us, one of the first things she did was to call for help. And while many of us might have gotten out to check on the car (though on the Eisenhower Expressway that's a dangerous proposition), I don't think most would have missed the flames coming out from under our own car.
Lucky for her, a state snowplow driver happened to be driving by and noticed the flames. He jumped out and started walking towards her car when she got spooked, but before she could lock the door he grabbed her and pulled her to safety. He also stopped her from going back to get her books.
(Via Jalopnik)
Khushboo Jani's 1996 Honda broke down and she was forced to guide it over the shoulder. Like most of us, one of the first things she did was to call for help. And while many of us might have gotten out to check on the car (though on the Eisenhower Expressway that's a dangerous proposition), I don't think most would have missed the flames coming out from under our own car.
Lucky for her, a state snowplow driver happened to be driving by and noticed the flames. He jumped out and started walking towards her car when she got spooked, but before she could lock the door he grabbed her and pulled her to safety. He also stopped her from going back to get her books.
(Via Jalopnik)
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