Helmet must for entry

The district administration has imposed ‘no helmet no entry’ rule after ‘no helmet no petrol’ on government staff. Under this rule, government employees without wearing helmets will not be allowed entry into their offices.

This is the first such test to ensure that government staff wears the helmet, so that the public could follow them. This rule is being tried out following the problems in implementing the ‘no helmet – no petrol rule’.  

Hundreds of posters on ‘no helmet no entry’ rule have been pasted on the walls of government offices, bus stands and public places here.

Collector M. Jagan Mohan, who is the chairman of the District Road Safety Committee, had issued instructions to the owners of the petrol pumps not to provide fuel to two- wheelers riders who turn up with without helmets. He warned that their licenses would be cancelled if they violated the rule.

He said the administration would set up CC Tv cameras and deploy NCC cadets, forest staff, and home guards to monitor the implementation of no helmet no petrol rule.

Though the rule itself was poorly implemented, there was an increase in the number of two – wheeler riders on wearing helmets due to the campaign by the administration. 

Police and Road Transport Departments are creating awareness among the people about the importance of wearing helmets to avoid deaths in road accidents.

Police and transport departments organized a awareness programme about importance of wearing helmet for students so that the students could influence their parents.

Parents will definitely wear helmets if their children refuse to sit on the bike or go along with their parents ride a bike without wearing a helmet.

Collector said the bike riders should wear helmets voluntarily realizing the importance of wearing a helmet instead following it as a rule.

Efforts to provide corporate medicare for TS staff at govt hospitals

   Minister Jogu Ramanna gets his BP checked at RIMS,Adilabad. 

State government is putting in efforts to provide corporate medical treatment to the government employees and their family members and also pensioners at government hospitals under Employees health scheme (cashless medical treatment) in Telangana state. The health scheme was formally launched at RIMS, Adilabad on Friday.  

Medical treatment will be given to nearly 1,000 ailments out of identified total 1,800 under the scheme at RIMS, Adilabad. The scheme was launched in the respective districts in the state by Ministers. 

As many as 12 super specialty hospitals have refused to provide their services to the patients under this scheme as they were not happy with the fee for medical treatment to various ailments offered under the scheme by the state government.

The government employees and pensioners expressed dissatisfaction over non inclusion 12 super specialty hospitals in the scheme.

Further, they said they were ready to pay their yearly contribution towards the scheme if the super specialty hospitals would be included for providing service under the scheme.

Adilabad RIMS Superintendent Dr A. Ashok said they made special arrangements to treat 25 chronic ailments including cardiac and kidney related problems and added that required medicines for these ailments have been purchased under this scheme and five air condition rooms have been earmarked for the government employees and their family members and pensioners.

He said outpatient services will be provided between 2 pm -4pm even Wednesday and Thursday and added that inpatient services will be launches 15 days later.

Under the scheme, free medical checkup would be done to government employees four times in a year.