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WALKATHON 2013
Edmonton (ATB): This year on 15th June, 2013 approximately 275 supporters and friends of Maanaw Seva Association took part in Annual Walk a thon. Participants young and old joined the walk and donated money to support the school in Atsalia in the province of Uttar Pradesh, India and also a local inner city school Mount Rose. There were games and food for everyone. Organizers did a wonderful job in promoting the awareness about education and also in donating the funds for the breakfast to the
poor kids each morning of the school year. It was very satisfactory for Puneet Manchanda and his team of volunteers seeing the number of participants growing significantly each year and having the support of Indo Canadian community of the city of Edmonton. Maanaw Seva Association feels proud at the successful outcome of thisyearly event like Matter of Heart and Matter of Cancer and Three Lives of Punditji events done in the past. The chief guest was the Mayor of Edmonton His Worship Stephen Mandel and the
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principal Ms Laurie Caines of Mount Rose school. Mr. Mandel also helped in auctioning one of the door prizes TV to raise some extra funds. He seems to be very natural in the art of auctioning. One of the main objectives of Maanaw Seva Association is to assist the under
Bhartiya Cultural Society of Alberta& Hindu Society of Alberta organized Summer Festival & picnic at their premises last week
privileged and poor children to receive elementary education to start with. For this purpose Maanaw Seva Association holds an annual Walk-a-thon (known as Walk for Children’s Future) in support of a free school in the village of Atsaliya in Uttar Pradesh, India
3 MILLION EUROPEANS CATCH INFECTIONS IN HOSPITAL ANNUALLY On any given day, some 80,000 patients in Europe are fighting an infection they picked up in hospital, often while in intensive care, the EU’s disease monitoring agency said in a survey published . Although some of these infections can be treated easily, others - like the superbug MRSA and other drugresistant bugs - can be
fatal or affect patients’ health very seriously, taking several months of costly hospital care and medication to beat. A survey by the European Centre for Diseases Prevention and Control (ECDC) found that on any given day, one in 18 patients in European hospitals has at least one hospital-acquired infection - amounting to
around 3.2 million patients per year.–Reuters “Healthcare-associated infections pose a major
public health problem and a threat to European patients,” said Marc Sprenger, director of the
St o c k h o l m - b a s e d ECDC. He said many of these infections could be prevented by well thought-out, sustained and multi-pronged prevention and control programmes and he urged hospitals to step up the fight. “Such programmes, as well as prudent use of antibiotics, will help all actors involved to protect the pa-
tients of European hospitals,” he said in a statement. The ECDC warned last year that doctors are increasingly having to turn to lastditch antibiotics due to growing drug-resistant superbug infections in Europe - many of them acquired in hospitals. The latest survey, which covered 1,000 hospitals in 30 European coun-
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tries, found the highest rates of hospital-acquired infections were among patients admitted to intensive care units, where 19.5 percent of patients had at least one bug they had picked up from the hospital. The most common types of infection are respiratory tract infections such as pneumonia and infections of the bloodstream.
Seagulls force postmen to abandon eliveries
Postal workers told to ‘man up’ by Cornish residents after refusing to deliver to a seaside cul-de-sac because of attacks from divebombing seagulls. Officials at Royal Mail said postmen have been injured by the swooping birds who dive-bomb and peck at their heads. It is thought the gulls are launching their attacks to protect nests and are being relied by the postal workers’ brightlycoloured uniforms. Royal Mail has now ruled the gulls are a health and safety risk and have told residents at Liskey Hill Crescent, Perranporth, Cornwall, to collect their letters from a nearby post office. But home owners say they have had to put up with the aggressive seagulls for years and want mail staff to “man up” and start delivering again. Jackie Bray, 67, who has lived on the crescent for 35 years, said: “I’m waiting for a hip operation and now I have to go to the post office every day to collect my mail.