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PUNE: Health activists and civil society organisations have commended the state health minister's decision to set up a multi-stakeholder committee to formulate the Maharashtra Clinical Establishment Act and pass it in the next budget assembly session in February-March 2014. |
More than 80% of the patients in the state seek care in private hospitals and clinics. However, the private health sector is often criticised for commercialisation and overcharging, frequent irrational procedures and violation of patients' rights due to lack of effective self-regulation by doctors' organisations and me... |
Setting up a multi-stakeholder participatory regulatory council at the district-level would mean forming a committee with representatives of doctors, patients and civil society organisations working in health sector as its members. |
Many experts in the health sector believe that the Maharashtra Clinical Establishments Act 2014 would be an important step towards standardisation of quality and costs in the private medical sector. |
"Health minister Suresh Shetty agreed to the suggestion of multiple stakeholders. Instead of adopting the Clinical Establishment Act (CEA) 2010, a Central act, it would be better to formulate the Maharashtra Clinical Establishment Act to regulate private hospitals and protect patients' rights in the state," said Anant ... |
The decision to set up the committee was taken in a meeting in Mumbai on December 3, which was attended by minister of state for public health Fauzia Khan, Rajya Sabha member Husain Dalwai and key health officials along with the representatives of Jan Arogya Abhiyan, Observer Research Foundation, a medical professional... |
"It was decided that the state-level act will be drafted within two months by a joint drafting committee comprising representatives of Jan Arogya Abhiyan, civil society organisations and medical doctors associations under the chairmanship of MMC president. The committee would build on the positive features of the Clini... |
in Mumbai. The Jan Arogya Abhiyan submitted its draft of the Maharashtra Clinical Establishment Bill 2013, which builds upon positive features of central act while overcoming its deficiencies and taking into account concerns of doctors and patients in September 2013. |
"Now that professional medical associations have changed their position and are in support of the enactment of Maharashtra Clinical Establishment Act, we hope to make rapid progress towards formulating and enacting this Act till February-March 2014," said Suhas Kolhekar, a medical practitioner and activist. |
Medical practitioner and activist Abhijit More said, "Protection of patient's rights and grievance redressal mechanism for patients would prove to be a landmark step towards giving relief to patients who are discontent with the medical sector." |
What is Clinic Establishment Act? |
The Clinical Establishment (Registration and Regulation) Act, 2010 was enacted by the Centre to provide for registration and regulation of all clinical establishments in the country with a view to prescribing the minimum standards of facilities and services provided by them. The Act has taken effect in the four states ... |
* Grievance redressal mechanism for patients and doctors. |
* Regulation of private hospitals charges. |
* Display of indicative rate cards in private hospitals. |
* Standard treatment guidelines to curb unnecessary investigations, operations and medications. |
* Multi-stakeholder participatory regulatory councils at the district-level which would include representatives of doctors, patients and civil society organisations working in health sector. |
* Designated autonomous public regulatory body for all clinical establishments. |
* Preparation of minimum standards for clinical establishment at the state-level after following consultative process with experts and stakeholders. |
* Modified and practical 'emergency patient first aid' clause. |
* Removal of police representation from district authority. |
The Act is applicable to all kinds of clinical establishments from the public and private sectors, of all recognized systems of medicine including single doctor clinics. The only exception will be establishments run by the Armed forces. |
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada’s Shaw Communications Inc said on Tuesday it would sell its data center subsidiary ViaWest Inc to Peak 10 Holding Corp for $1.675 billion, using some of the proceeds to buy airwaves to boost its new wireless unit. |
Shaw said it would pay C$430 million ($325 million) to acquire wireless spectrum from Quebecor Media Inc, which is majority-owned by Quebecor Inc, for use in its home markets in Alberta and British Columbia as well as in southern Ontario. |
The moves are the latest one-two M&A punch from Shaw, after early last year selling its media assets to sister company Corus Entertainment and acquiring Wind Mobile, which it rebranded as Freedom Mobile in November. |
Shares of both Shaw and Quebecor jumped after the news, with Shaw up 4.2 percent to C$29.75 and Quebecor up 1.9 percent at C$41.35 in morning trade. |
“It was a good price (for ViaWest), a good strategic move to focus back onto the core,” said Jeff Fan, a telecom analyst at Scotiabank, adding that the price they paid for the Quebecor spectrum was at the high end of his expected range. |
Calgary-based Shaw is locked in a fierce battle for internet, television and telephone customers in the west of the country with Vancouver-based rival Telus Corp. |
“Just by getting low-band spectrum it’s not going to put them on equal footing, but it does narrow the network quality gap quite significantly,” Scotiabank’s Fan said. |
The spectrum transaction requires approvals from a competition watchdog and the government, and is expected to close this summer. |
Analysts were calling on Shaw to sell its data center business after U.S. telecommunications firms Verizon Communications Inc and CenturyLink Inc reaped several billions of dollars after agreeing to sell their portfolios last year. |
Shaw bought ViaWest from private equity firms Oak Hill Capital Partners and GI Partners for about $1.2 billion three years ago. Peak 10 Holding is owned by GI Partners. |
ViaWest is a Colorado-based data center company which offers hybrid IT and cloud-based solutions. It owns about 30 data centers in several U.S. states including Colorado, Nevada and Minnesota. |
Reuters reported in April that Shaw was looking for a buyer for ViaWest and was expecting a higher price than its original investment. |
TD Securities acted as exclusive financial adviser and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP and Dentons Canada LLP provided legal advice, Shaw said. |
Gay- and lesbian-targeted here! is expanding its East Coast office. |
The network named three vice presidents who will be based in its New York office and report directly to general manager Karen Flischel. |
Maria Caulfield-Dwyer has joined here! as VP of affiliate marketing. She had held the same title at TV Land. |
Bob Dillon has been named VP of brand marketing. Dillon had been director of affiliate marketing at A&E Television Networks. |
And Carol Hinnant has joined here! as VP of affiliate sales. She had been regional VP of affiliate sales at Jones Media Networks Inc. |
here! is currently available in more than 30 million households. |
Nintendo President Reggie Fils-Aime on the company's video game console Nintendo Switch, the new game 'Super Mario Odyssey' and the outlook for the holiday season. |
The Nintendo Switch, slated to be one of the holiday season’s biggest hits, has already been a win for the company this year. The video game maker saw a 35% jump in net profit in its fiscal first half, from April through September, largely aided by sales of its latest video game console. |
“This game is just on fire on a global basis. Here in the United States, we’ve sold over 1.1 million units, that means four out of every 10 owners of Nintendo Switch have bought the game and we think that’s going to continue to increase through the holiday season,” Fils-Aime told FOX Business’ Maria Bartiromo. |
With strong demand for the Switch already and the holiday season on the way, the company raised its sales forecast for the console. |
In the wake of the Fonterra milk scare, Wellington mayoral candidate Jack Yan believes his policies on creativity and innovation are needed more than ever. |
Mr Yan releases a video today (see http://vimeo.com/71725296), where he speaks English, te Reo, French and Cantonese, saying that it is important for the next Mayor of Wellington to be able to bridge cultures at a global level. |
‘If mayors aren’t part of this dialogue, talking to the top 40 cities in the world and opening doors for our exporters, then we’re going to be affected terribly when our nation brand is damaged,’ he says. ‘We have seen real evidence of this this week. |
Mr Yan, who issued his manifesto for the Wellington mayoral election in April (see http://backjack2013.com), months before his opponents, has remained on message throughout about the need for Wellington to become a global hub for innovation and identifying export champions. |
Given Wellington’s urban base, those champions were likely to be outside the primary industries. |
‘New Zealand is a primary products’ nation and I recognize the sector’s importance. However, this scare shows just why it’s important for cities to back up national economic activity and to have strong brands themselves. |
‘Wellington is in an enviable place to deliver greater innovation, with high-growth firms and strong creativity, which will be more rigorously grown if I am elected,’ he says. |
Mr Yan has authored books on branding and has practised in the area since the 1980s. His work at the Swedish branding think-tank, the Medinge Group, has seen him lead the way on international brand thinking, making him better equipped to develop a proper city brand, get Wellington businesses exporting, and being an adv... |
He agrees with earlier commentators, including Prime Minister John Key, that the scare has harmed New Zealand’s national brand. As he predicted in his 2010 and 2013 campaigns, strong city brands will have to come to the fore to promote economic activity in export markets. |
Mr Yan says, ‘There is a certain level of pride in saying something comes from Wellington, but we haven’t recognized this properly. We have export earners here and by promoting a diverse economy, we can ensure that we have more of a safety net when scandals in our primary sector occur. |
Jack Yan founded Jack Yan & Associates (http://jya.net), one of the world’s first virtual firms, in 1987, operating internationally. Among his company’s interests are business consulting, imaging, software and media, including the fashion magazine brand Lucire. He writes on topics, ranging from branding and business re... |
WASHINGTON: The Federal Reserve signaled Wednesday that a full economic recovery could take nearly three more years, and attempted strongly to assure consumers and businesses that they will be able to borrow money cheaply well into the future. |
The central bank said it would probably not increase its benchmark interest rate until late 2014 � a year and a half later than it had previously said. |
Chairman Ben Bernanke cautioned that late 2014 is merely a �best guess.� The Fed can shift that plan if the economic picture changes. But he cast doubt on whether that would be necessary. |
The Fed has kept its key rate at a record low near zero for about three years. |
The bank�s tepid outlook also suggests it�s prepared to do more to help the economy. One possibility is a third bond-buying program that would seek to further drive down rates on mortgages and other loans to embolden consumers and businesses to borrow and spend more. |
It was the first time the Fed had released interest-rate forecasts from its committee members. It will do so four times a year, when it also updates its economic outlook. |
The central bank slightly reduced its outlook for growth this year, from as much as 2.9 percent forecast in November down to 2.7 percent. For the first time, the Fed provided an official target for inflation � 2 percent � in a statement of its long-term policy goals. |
The bank sees unemployment falling as low as 8.2 percent this year, better than its earlier forecast of 8.5 percent. December�s unemployment rate was 8.5 percent. |
The brutal murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at his country's consulate in Istanbul has shocked the world. Yahya Assiri, a Saudi human rights activist who knew Khashoggi, tells FRANCE 24 why the Saudi authorities decided to silence the Washington Post journalist. He also tells us why Riyadh underestimated ... |
Mark Morris couldn't make an entrance without making a stir if he tried. Popping open a door at the San Francisco Ballet building, the celebrated choreographer crosses the room as if driven by a sudden gust of wind, flops down in a chair and slaps a crumpled magazine on the table. |
"Have you read this?" he asks, flipping through ex-New York Times executive editor Howell Raines' account of his rise and Jayson Blair-induced fall in the new Atlantic. "It's great. It's gripping. Nonstop. Talk, talk, talk." |
Everything interests Morris, it seems, whether it's journalism's dirty laundry, his own abrupt obsession with the Metropolitan Opera's "Ring" cycle - - "I'm not a big Wagner fan, actually, but I just saw 'Siegfried' last Saturday and I was sobbing" -- some improbable piece of music he might choreograph next or Mel Gibs... |
At the moment, "Sylvia" is the issue at hand. That's Morris' new full- length work for the San Francisco Ballet, opening this week at the War Memorial Opera House. Set to a long-neglected 1876 score by Leo Delibes, the piece comes as a surprise to casual followers of the choreographer's work. This "Sylvia," as far as a... |
"Daunting," for Morris, is another way of saying "bring it on." "I'm using the score and libretto exactly as they're built," he says. "It's fabulous. Nobody's used to pastorales and Arcadian mythology anymore, and I don't understand why not. When it says in the score, 'Aminta comes in and sees her bathing in a pond,' t... |
The her, in the story, is the eponymous Sylvia, who also happens to have an evil admirer named Orion. After some arrow-flinging at and by Eros, Sylvia is abducted by Orion and spirited away to a cave full of his henchmen. There's a drunken scene, a pirate ship, a well-timed storm and a late intercession by the conscien... |
Sarcasm, which seems to enlarge rather than deflate his passions, is always poised in Morris' quiver. Even when he is playing it by the book, as he is with "Sylvia," Morris has a way of cutting through the academic murk that can cloud treatments of classical myths. His production will honor the conventions of a 19th ce... |
"Well, I just made it up, so it's modern," he says. "Sylvia" doesn't need help, as he sees it; the piece supplies its own muscle. "There are so many weirdnesses and symmetries in it already," says Morris. "Act 1 is about a woman's society with an outcast man. Act 2 is about a men's society and a wronged woman. Act 3 is... |
Morris is pleased to point out of this ballet that "it's not a tragedy, and the women win. It's about women, without them being betrayed and killed. Most of the 19th century ballets are about dead virgins in some way, and this isn't. It's this totally proto-feminist thing, which I love." |
As always with Morris, 47, the music must be the primary and compelling inspiration. In a choreographic career that now spans more than 30 years and includes works set to Handel and Lou Harrison, Mozart and Michelle Shocked, Morris has always thought about, felt and created dance in a deeply music- driven way. At heart... |
"If he can keep his music clear," Acocella writes of Morris, "choose clear music to start with and then reflect it in the dance, so that we never lose track of where it's going -- then the music itself will order the dance, and the eye and the ear, each experiencing the same thing, cannot, between them, miss what he ha... |
Anyone who has witnessed a gorgeously composed Morris masterpiece such as "L'Allegro, Il Penseroso ed Il Moderato" -- or for that matter the tightly wrought high jinks of "The Hard Nut" -- has felt that animating bond between music and movement in his work. |
Morris has a ready rejoinder to the assumption he must often encounter that music automatically conjures his work, Athena-like, from his head. When he listens to a piece he's considering, he says, "I don't visualize a dance. Do I hear music and see a beautiful dance in my head? That's not being a choreographer. That's ... |
What does happen, he explains, is a process of "going deeper" if something appeals to him. He studies a score to "figure out what makes it work and why it's interesting and how it can be danced to." With something like "Sylvia," early piano rehearsals are devoted to the bar-by-bar, stop-and-start work of corresponding ... |
When Tomasson issued his invitation over lunch in Washington, D.C., in the fall of 2000, Morris initially misunderstood. He thought the San Francisco Ballet head wanted him to turn another piece already in the works for the company ("The Garden") into a full-length. Once that confusion was ironed out, Morris went off i... |
His first stop with Delibes was his better-known "Coppelia," which Morris was surprised to find he didn't much care for as a piece of music. "I'd never really listened to it without watching a ballet. All the good tunes are in the first 20 minutes, and then it's reprise and retread." |
Bits of "Sylvia" are known to any ballet student. A pizzicato waltz turns up in classic ballet cartoons. One fanfare is very familiar. Some of the entrance music, as Morris says "is something you don't know but you know something just like it." |
Beyond those points of contact, "Sylvia" appealed strongly to Morris for its symphonic structure and almost-Wagnerian use of recurring musical motives. "Plus there's a saxophone," Morris exults. "When do you get a saxophone? Never! " San Francisco Ballet Music Director Andrew Mogrelia shares Morris' enthusiasm for the ... |
Morris did enough "Sylvia" research to know that the ballet got a spectacular special-effects production at the then-new Palais Garnier in Paris and that British choreographer Frederick Ashton did it in three-, two- and one- act versions. Morris saw a film of one rehearsal. It convinced him to reposition the statue of ... |
Erickson says that Morris' imagery for what he wants is crucial. " 'Your toe is like a dagger, sticking into the floor,' he might say. Or it could be a particular circular movement of the hips or a level way of meeting another dancer's gaze. Mark always wants it to be very human, very real." |
While Morris works differently here than he does with his own, Brooklyn- based modern dance company, he does import a certain disruptively democratic spirit. His insistence on casting corps dancers as well as principals and soloists in the major "Sylvia" roles (there are fours casts in all) ruffled some feathers. But i... |
"In a lot of ballet companies, people are scared s -- less all the time," he says, "They're scared because they think they're going to be fired or because they think they're fat or because they think the other company in town is better. Here they're not so scared. Because of the variety of repertory, the dancers are no... |
"He creates a camaraderie," says Tomasson. "He is very good at getting the best out of the dancers." |
Morris' frantic schedule takes him to Dublin after the "Sylvia" premiere, back to New York to catch the Met's "Gotterdammerung" ("and then I'm institutionalized") and back to work in Brooklyn on a big dance for his Mark Morris Dance Group set to a jazz trio he's commissioned. It premieres in June and arrives in Berkele... |
"I haven't heard a note of it," Morris says of the new score. He juts his chin a little and widens his eyes in mock panic. "But it's not till June, so it will be fine." Two months, in Morris time, is forever. |
Benjamin Netanyahu and Yasir Arafat came here with the heart of the matter on both their minds -- the survival of Israel and how peace would affect it. |
Mr. Netanyahu heads an Israeli Government determined that any peace, whatever time it takes to achieve, will protect Israeli survival for generations. |
Mr. Arafat is the leader of a Palestinian movement that sees ''peace now'' as a step toward the phase-by-phase elimination of Israel. |
Yesterday he asserted in a letter to President Clinton that the death-to-Israel articles of the Palestinian Covenant were annulled in April 1996. The man has a terrible memory. |
After the 1996 meeting, his own Fatah branch of the Palestinian movement wrote an internal document saying no changes ''whatsoever'' had been made in the Covenant. |
And in an interview with a Palestinian paper, Mr. Arafat re-emphasized a 1974 Palestinian policy statement calling for the phased takeover of all territory controlled by Israel. The interview was printed 22 days ago. |
The issue of Israeli survivability remains the underlying reality of the separate talks the visitors had with Mr. Clinton, as it is of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle. |
But the President had a sudden crisis to face, a personal crisis that could become important to Israelis, Palestinians, the entire Mideast. |
The presumption of innocence is mandatory in American courts -- but not in public opinion. If he remains in office, his influence will evaporate unless he can demonstrate his innocence, not just proclaim it. All the world's nations will know that. |
The Israeli Government eagerly wants America as a friend, after a peace as much as before. But the possibility of a hemorrhaging or destroyed American Presidency should show Israelis that they cannot risk survival on the influence of any foreign country. |
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