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Doctors shouldn't even be considered under the Consumer Protection Act. They shouldn't be treated like businesses. One consequence of this (as I've learnt after a talk to a doctor) is that they may see their own profession as a business and patients as customers.

It is one of the reasons why healthcare in the usa is so expensive. People sue over the smallest things. Every thing is the business' (or in this case, doctor's) liabilty. There is also an arms race between insurance companies and doctors. Insurance companies want to pay as little as possible, so doctors try to inflate bills as much as they can. There is also added costs of hospitals for hiring accountants, lawyers, etc. Too much admin overhead costs and too little going into the actual healthcare (salries of doctors, nurses, medical equipment). Also just the idea of suing doctors in consumer courts is so wrong. Patients aren't customers.

I am myself looking for something like this. There may be some programmer here who could make a tool that does it.

It is possible someone maybe using bots on desktops. People used to do that with IRCTC tatkal bookings.

Match postoned for now.

Looking to install a cooler in the hall (6 × 4.5 metres). Have never used one before so don't know what to look for.

Just the money saved from cutting DA of central govt. employees was more than what a full vaccination programme covering every single Indian would have cost. The country might be poor, but its not like the government doesn't have the money. The annual budget this year was 35 lakh crores. Not even 10 percent of that is allocated to healthcare, in a year when healthcare should have been the biggest concern. The cost of handling wave after wave and repeated lockdowns is far more than what it'd cost to just give a 150 Rs injection to everyone.

Only seeing slots for 45+ age group and 95% of them are fully booked.

ITC has shown consistent growth in annual profits over the last decade with the exception of 2020-21 (due to lockdowns and cigarette sales taking a hit). The reason its share price won't go up is because ITC keeps diluting the stock by issuing new shares. I also have a few shares and am looking to buy some more, because it is gives good dividends but it's a very small part of my portfolio. Also, the other day I sold all my holdings of Graphite (my favourite stock) at 711 which I had purchased over the last 2-3 years for avg. price of 284. Instant regret as the share price continued to rise and hit 730+ today. Rookie mistake, I know.

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/coronavirus-nitric-oxide-nasal-spray-7286590/ This looks promising. If it works and is approved, large quantities can be produced quickly.

My friend's father-in-law is in critical condition. He was admitted last week. Mother-in-law was also admit, and she recovered and was discharged today. Friend went to Panama (works in shipping company) only 10 or so days ago.

Cases seem to be falling in KDMC now. Less than 1000 new cases in 3 of the last 4 days. There were 2400+ on 11th April. Still a long way to go to get to sub 100 cases as we had in January-February.

We don't get massive salaries or pay hikes, even a promotion is 3% increment. You might change a job or get a promotion and get a 50% pay hike immediately. It'll take me 5-6 years of service to get that. As far as I'm concerned it is a pay cut, not a stoppage of a pay hike. Mind you, I would have gladly foregone this money if govt. had used it to give benefits back to the people.

It is dearness allowance, which is changed (mostly increased) every 6 months to cover rising costs due to inflation. Govt. employees get only 3% salary raise every year so DA is the main source of pay growth. DA is 17% since July 2019, as it has been frozen since January 2020. If we go by the CPI (consumer price inflation index) based on which DA is calculated, DA should have been 27% by now. So it's a 4-8% salary cut every month for 18 months.

Even I had to go to office after September last year, and even do field work. I don't even think DA will be restored in July. They might extend freeze for 6 more months.

Did a calculation on lost income and it came out to more than 1 month salary. I would have gladly foregone this income (and more) if government could have given people something in return. Free Covid treatment and vaccinations for all. But they didn't do that also. So many people lost their life savings or had to go into debt just because they got covid. The total savings from DA freeze was about 36000 crores, which would have been enough to vaccinate the whole country. At least I managed to avail Mahatma Phule scheme for mother-in-law's treatment last year.

This is a classic salesman move. He still gets a higher margin than the original price at which he was selling to the centre while pretending to be doing something favourable to us. Good on him for taking that early gamble to start production but his actions resemble that of a capitalist, not a philanthropist.

Meanwhile central government has left their employees to dry. Our office sent us notices to get ourselves vaccinated at the earliest while they do nothing to help. They cut 5400 Rs from my salary every year just for CGHS and I can't even use it properly because it isn't available in Dombivli. Now state govt. has announced free vaccination for my age group so I'm hoping I can get from there.

BMC has announced that those in 18-45 agr group would have only private centres for vaccination. So no vaccines for 18-45 year olds in Mumbai. Not sure what the status is for rest of Maharashtra. The whole vaccination process for 18-45 group in Maharashtra will cost only Rs 2000 crores, and less than Rs 1000 crores if SII stops profiteering and reduces prices. For whole of India, it should be in the Rs 10000 crore range.

1st Test, Bangladesh batted out (almost) 2 full days vs Sri Lanka and are on 474/4.

Fire broke out at Covid hospital in Virar due to explosion of AC. 13 of the 17 ICU patients have died so far. https://www.bbc.com/marathi/india-56843144

States have also failed, no doubt. There has been corruption and general incompetency, failure to forsee and prepare for the 2nd wave. But when they are now making demands to the centre, they aren't "throwing a tantrum". They genuinely need all the help they can get, but centre is too busy playing games. Centre never stopped being responsible for the people of Maharashtra, Rajasthan or any other Indian state, but they act like it's not their problem anymore.

Yeah, and how can we even trust them when they allowed the Kumbh Mela to happen at such a scale and conducted massive political rallies and even bragged about the same? Health of the people is the least of their concerns.

No he did it because he wants to absolve himself of any responsibility if something fails. If centre thinks health is a state subject the entire handling of the pandemic from last March should have been under control of the states. But centre took complete charge of all lockdowns, and even interefered when states were enacting policies they didn't want. Now they claim that controlling spread of virus is entirely states' responsibility. When did it stop being centre's responsibility though? Then when vaccinations started, centre again took all control and micromanaged everything. When BMC wanted to vaccinate disabled people who couldn't themselves come to vaccination centres, centre rejected it because 'they had no such policy'. Now when things are getting difficult they want to push all responsibility to states so they can play the blame game when things go wrong. Shameless buffoon wants to hog all credit when things to right, but whenever there is a difficulty he will quickly push responsibility to others and then later blame them when things go wrong.

Apparently vaccination will be started for 18+ year olds from May 1st. Hopefully vaccine supply issues will also be sorted by then because there will be a huge demand.