Man cuts up maid to pieces
Chilling Murder Occured At Gogol, Margao, In 2006
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Madikeri (Karnataka): In a bone-chilling crime, a man has admitted killing a 12-year-old maid that he had employed by cutting up her body to pieces and burying the remains just outside his flat in Goa.
The accused, identified as C K Hamza, had employed young Shafia in Kasargod (Kerala) two years ago through one Aiyobi, a friend of the girl’s parents - B A Moideen and Aiysha - saying he wanted her to take care of his children. For two months since, Shafia would call her parents once a week.
On December 16, 2006, they were shocked to hear that she was missing. A complaint was lodged with Adur (Kasargod) police but Hamza is said to have got the complaint reversed telling them that the girl’s parents had taken her home. Suspecting something was wrong, local residents staged a protest asking for a proper investigation.
A special team then questioned Hamza’s wife Maimuna and relatives and got to know that he had taken the girl to a flat he owned in Goa. They
then arrested Hamza, who has confessed to the crime.
Hamza said he had taken Shafia to Goa to cook for him. One day she accidentally spilled a pan of hot water over herself and suffered severe burns. When the wounds wouldn’t heal he decided to kill her, he said.
Hamza, who was arrested along with one Abdulla in connection with the incident, was staying near Gogol housing board, Margao, Goa.
Meanwhile, during this period, it is learnt that Hamza had bagged a contract from the Irrigation Department’s Ponda Sub-division, DIV II for the construction of a Bandhara (bandh or small dam) at Kulem near Molem.
Hamza recently shifted his residence to Chandrawada in Fatorda.
July 4, 2008, The Times of India, Goa edition
Sunday, July 06, 2008
Women suffering from cancer on the rise
Women suffering from cancer on the rise
Study Says The Disease Affects The Most Productive Age Group Of 35 To 64 Years
Preetu Nair | TNN
Panaji: In the last five years, more women (53 per cent) were detected with cancer in Goa, while the incidence of cancer amongst men was at 47 per cent, reveals a new study.
Amongst all ailments, the prevalence of cancer in the state is about 11. 3 per cent and the shocking part is that cancer affects the most productive age group of 35 to 64 years. About 68 per cent women were detected with cancer in this age group, with men closely following at 64 per cent.
While the main reason for cancer amongst women has been linked to lifestyle, food habits like increasing consumption of vegetables sprayed with pesticides, broiler chicken and ham injected with steroids that lead to hormonal imbalance, the reason cited for cancer amongst men in Goa, besides changing lifestyle and food habits, is the increase in consumption of alcohol and gutka, the study states.
The study has been conducted by Goa Medical College and Hospital’s department of pathology head Dr Wiseman Pinto and Dr Manali Bandekar.
They studied specimen received from January 2003 to December 2007. Of the 43,472 specimen received, 4916 samples were diagnosed with cancer. “About 25 per cent are tobacco related cancers. While cancer of oral cavity (8 per cent) accounts for highest proportion of tobacco related cancers both in men (11 per cent) and women (4 per cent), cancer of lung (0.69 per cent) accounts for the lowest proportion of tobacco related cancers,” said Dr Pinto.
According to the report, the most common killer cancer amongst women is breast cancer. While majority of urban women were diagnosed with breast cancer (23 per cent) in the last five years, the rural women were diagnosed mostly with cervical cancer (10 per cent).
The other common types of cancer amongst women in Goa is the cancer of ovary, corpus uteri, non-hodgkins lymphoma, stomach, rectum and thyroid.
“Broiler chicken, ham or salami if eaten regularly and for a long time, leads to a hormonal imbalance in the body, which increases the risk of breast cancer in women. The body produces estrogen and progesterone, which is good, but by regularly eating broiler chicken, the exo (produced outside the human body) - estrogen and progesterone - acts on the body and increases risk ,” said Dr Pinto.
On the other hand, majority of men who have been diagnosed for cancer suffer from either stomach, bladder or tongue cancer, followed by the cancer of the mouth, esophagus, larynx, rectum and colon.
Dr Pinto added, “Stomach cancer is increasing amongst men due to increase in consumption of alcohol along with papad and preserved pickles that contains bacteria “H pylori”, excess of which leads to stomach cancer.”
While 3.5 per cent boys (0-14 years) who were diagonised with cancer in the last five years, the number of girls diagnosed with cancer in this age group is 2.2 per cent.
About 7 per cent men and women between the age group of 15 and 34 were detected with cancer in the last five years, followed by about 25 per cent men about the age of 65 and 22 per cent women in the same age group.
July 5, 2008, The Times of India, Goa edition
Study Says The Disease Affects The Most Productive Age Group Of 35 To 64 Years
Preetu Nair | TNN
Panaji: In the last five years, more women (53 per cent) were detected with cancer in Goa, while the incidence of cancer amongst men was at 47 per cent, reveals a new study.
Amongst all ailments, the prevalence of cancer in the state is about 11. 3 per cent and the shocking part is that cancer affects the most productive age group of 35 to 64 years. About 68 per cent women were detected with cancer in this age group, with men closely following at 64 per cent.
While the main reason for cancer amongst women has been linked to lifestyle, food habits like increasing consumption of vegetables sprayed with pesticides, broiler chicken and ham injected with steroids that lead to hormonal imbalance, the reason cited for cancer amongst men in Goa, besides changing lifestyle and food habits, is the increase in consumption of alcohol and gutka, the study states.
The study has been conducted by Goa Medical College and Hospital’s department of pathology head Dr Wiseman Pinto and Dr Manali Bandekar.
They studied specimen received from January 2003 to December 2007. Of the 43,472 specimen received, 4916 samples were diagnosed with cancer. “About 25 per cent are tobacco related cancers. While cancer of oral cavity (8 per cent) accounts for highest proportion of tobacco related cancers both in men (11 per cent) and women (4 per cent), cancer of lung (0.69 per cent) accounts for the lowest proportion of tobacco related cancers,” said Dr Pinto.
According to the report, the most common killer cancer amongst women is breast cancer. While majority of urban women were diagnosed with breast cancer (23 per cent) in the last five years, the rural women were diagnosed mostly with cervical cancer (10 per cent).
The other common types of cancer amongst women in Goa is the cancer of ovary, corpus uteri, non-hodgkins lymphoma, stomach, rectum and thyroid.
“Broiler chicken, ham or salami if eaten regularly and for a long time, leads to a hormonal imbalance in the body, which increases the risk of breast cancer in women. The body produces estrogen and progesterone, which is good, but by regularly eating broiler chicken, the exo (produced outside the human body) - estrogen and progesterone - acts on the body and increases risk ,” said Dr Pinto.
On the other hand, majority of men who have been diagnosed for cancer suffer from either stomach, bladder or tongue cancer, followed by the cancer of the mouth, esophagus, larynx, rectum and colon.
Dr Pinto added, “Stomach cancer is increasing amongst men due to increase in consumption of alcohol along with papad and preserved pickles that contains bacteria “H pylori”, excess of which leads to stomach cancer.”
While 3.5 per cent boys (0-14 years) who were diagonised with cancer in the last five years, the number of girls diagnosed with cancer in this age group is 2.2 per cent.
About 7 per cent men and women between the age group of 15 and 34 were detected with cancer in the last five years, followed by about 25 per cent men about the age of 65 and 22 per cent women in the same age group.
July 5, 2008, The Times of India, Goa edition
Mumbai hospital turns away patients
Mumbai hospital turns away patients
Preetu Nair | TNN
Panaji: After three months of treatment at Goa Medical College and hospital (GMC) produced no result, two and half year old Vibhav Borkar from Borim, Ponda was advised a biopsy. The biopsy report revealed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (cancer).
Armed with a certificate from GMC dated June 12, 2008, advising oncology, ‘facilities for which are available neither at GMC nor elsewhere in the state of Goa’, Vibhav’s parents, accompanied by an attendant, travelled by air as advised by GMC to Mumbai’s Tata Memorial hospital (TMH) on June 13, 2008.
But on reaching the Mumbai hospital, they were refused admission by TMH for want of beds. “They asked us to return after four days. But my son’s condition was bad and the doctor’s in Goa had said that he needed immediate medical attention,” said Viraj Borkar the child’s father.
TMH director Dr K P Dinshaw says, “We always have a problem of beds. But sooner or later, the child would have been admitted in the hospital.”
Vibhav was admitted to another private hospital in Mumbai, in the hope that the Goa government might help save their only son’s life. But the directorate of health services in Goa refused to bear the expenses. “They refused to help stating that the private hospital is not recognised by the Goa government for its mediclaim scheme,” said Viraj.
“The treatment costs Rs four lakh and we have already spent Rs one lakh. We have no more money to spend,” said the aggrieved father, who works as a clerk in a private engineering college in the state.
Though Vibhav has received initial treatment, he needs chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy for 8 to 10 months, that might cost Rs four lakh, the parents said.
Health Services director Dr Rajnanda Dessai said, “The family can submit the bills to us and we will refer the matter to the government. If the government agrees, we will pay them.”
Cancer continues to be a major ailment in Goa and even toddlers are not spared. Every year, at the GMC alone, about 45 to 50 children are detected with cancer. The biggest irony is that even though the state government claims that it is concerned with the rising cancer cases in the state and has sent a proposal to the Union health ministry for setting up a regional cancer centre in Goa, Goa doesn’t have a medical oncologist to take care of cancer patients.
“At present most cancer cases are referred to Tata Memorial for preliminary treatment and followed up at GMC as Goa doesn’t have a medical oncologist,” said a GMC doctor, on condition of anonymity.
July 4, 2008, The Times of India, Goa edition
Preetu Nair | TNN
Panaji: After three months of treatment at Goa Medical College and hospital (GMC) produced no result, two and half year old Vibhav Borkar from Borim, Ponda was advised a biopsy. The biopsy report revealed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (cancer).
Armed with a certificate from GMC dated June 12, 2008, advising oncology, ‘facilities for which are available neither at GMC nor elsewhere in the state of Goa’, Vibhav’s parents, accompanied by an attendant, travelled by air as advised by GMC to Mumbai’s Tata Memorial hospital (TMH) on June 13, 2008.
But on reaching the Mumbai hospital, they were refused admission by TMH for want of beds. “They asked us to return after four days. But my son’s condition was bad and the doctor’s in Goa had said that he needed immediate medical attention,” said Viraj Borkar the child’s father.
TMH director Dr K P Dinshaw says, “We always have a problem of beds. But sooner or later, the child would have been admitted in the hospital.”
Vibhav was admitted to another private hospital in Mumbai, in the hope that the Goa government might help save their only son’s life. But the directorate of health services in Goa refused to bear the expenses. “They refused to help stating that the private hospital is not recognised by the Goa government for its mediclaim scheme,” said Viraj.
“The treatment costs Rs four lakh and we have already spent Rs one lakh. We have no more money to spend,” said the aggrieved father, who works as a clerk in a private engineering college in the state.
Though Vibhav has received initial treatment, he needs chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy for 8 to 10 months, that might cost Rs four lakh, the parents said.
Health Services director Dr Rajnanda Dessai said, “The family can submit the bills to us and we will refer the matter to the government. If the government agrees, we will pay them.”
Cancer continues to be a major ailment in Goa and even toddlers are not spared. Every year, at the GMC alone, about 45 to 50 children are detected with cancer. The biggest irony is that even though the state government claims that it is concerned with the rising cancer cases in the state and has sent a proposal to the Union health ministry for setting up a regional cancer centre in Goa, Goa doesn’t have a medical oncologist to take care of cancer patients.
“At present most cancer cases are referred to Tata Memorial for preliminary treatment and followed up at GMC as Goa doesn’t have a medical oncologist,” said a GMC doctor, on condition of anonymity.
July 4, 2008, The Times of India, Goa edition
Not just tan, facelift too in Goa
Not just tan, facelift too in Goa
Preetu Nair | TNN
Panaji: To Goa’s sun and sand, now add the scalpel. Medical tourism is picking up in the state, and cosmetic surgery is proving to be a big draw.
During the last tourist season, about 250 people went into the operation theatre to enhance theor looks in the four major hospitals in the state. A majority of those who went under the knife were from the US and the UK, their prime attraction being the cost.
Liposuction (fat removal) costs anywhere between Rs 1 lakh to Rs 4 lakh in UK and US, the same procedure in Goa would cost about Rs 1 lakh. While a facelift is more expensive in UK (Rs 3.5 to Rs 4.5 lakh) and US (Rs 3 lakh to 3.5 lakh), in Goa this costs about Rs 1 lakh. A tummy tuck or abdominoplasty which costs about Rs 3 lakh to 4.5 lakh in the UK and Rs 2.5 to 3.4 lakh in US, costs between Rs 1 lakh to Rs 1.5 lakh in the state. The rates of botox treatment are as low as Rs 500 to Rs 1,000 per session in the state, in UK a session costs about Rs 17,200 and in US it costs Rs 8000 to 17,000 a session.
Breast enlargement or reduction costs about Rs 2.5 lakh to Rs 4.5 lakh in the UK while in the US it is around Rs 2 to 3.5 lakh. However, in Goa the price for the same is between Rs 70,000 to a lakh.
Hospitals in the state say that 75% of their clients for cosmetic surgeries is from abroad. Local Goans account for only about 5%. The rest are patients from different parts of India, including Bollywood starlets, who come to Goa to ensure secrecy.
“Those who want to keep their cosmetic surgery a secret, Goa is an ideal place. People come here on a holiday, get themselves admitted in a hospital and get the cosmetic surgery done. They leave as a changed person,” said Dr Suresh Dubhashi of Vintage hospital, Panaji. MOST WANTED Picture perfect: Many resort to plastic surgery
Panaji: Cosmetic surgeons say that the people of all ages, from a young 24 to a more mature 70, are opting for cosmetic surgery. While those in the age group of 28 to 40 generally seek breast enlargement and liposuction, those between 40 to 50 seek cosmetic surgery for post pregnancy tummy tugs.
Older people between 50 and 70 years, prefer a face lift, liposuction of hands and legs as well as a tummy tug.
“The majority of patients who come for surgery are women between the ages of 20 and 40,” added plastic surgeon Dr Rajiv Usgaocar from Manipal hospital.
Victor Albuquerque, MD, Alcon Victor Group said, “Specialised cosmetic treatment started getting popular among foreign and Indian tourists in a big way in Goa only in 2007 and we expect the numbers to increase by another 25 per cent to 50 per cent this year.”
Take the case of 70-yearold Ramesh Verma, who flew down from Delhi to Goa for a week, got himself admitted into a city hospital for a facelift to remove wrinkles and chin fat, a liposuction of the tummy and botox (baggy eyelid correction). Or that of British national Krysia Fedorowicz (58), who looked older than her age and was depressed as a result.
“I am happy I went in for cosmetic surgery in Goa. The cost is less and I was more relaxed as I was on a vacation, with hardly anything to worry about,” she said. She is determined to return this October for a tummy tug.
Dr Manish Patel, cosmetic surgeon, at Apollo Victor hospital, Margao added, “Cosmetic surgery can help those whose performance is adversely affected on account of their looks, to gain confidence. Sometimes these complications are associated to ailments that can be improved with cosmetic surgery.”
July 4, 2008, The Times of India, Goa edition
Preetu Nair | TNN
Panaji: To Goa’s sun and sand, now add the scalpel. Medical tourism is picking up in the state, and cosmetic surgery is proving to be a big draw.
During the last tourist season, about 250 people went into the operation theatre to enhance theor looks in the four major hospitals in the state. A majority of those who went under the knife were from the US and the UK, their prime attraction being the cost.
Liposuction (fat removal) costs anywhere between Rs 1 lakh to Rs 4 lakh in UK and US, the same procedure in Goa would cost about Rs 1 lakh. While a facelift is more expensive in UK (Rs 3.5 to Rs 4.5 lakh) and US (Rs 3 lakh to 3.5 lakh), in Goa this costs about Rs 1 lakh. A tummy tuck or abdominoplasty which costs about Rs 3 lakh to 4.5 lakh in the UK and Rs 2.5 to 3.4 lakh in US, costs between Rs 1 lakh to Rs 1.5 lakh in the state. The rates of botox treatment are as low as Rs 500 to Rs 1,000 per session in the state, in UK a session costs about Rs 17,200 and in US it costs Rs 8000 to 17,000 a session.
Breast enlargement or reduction costs about Rs 2.5 lakh to Rs 4.5 lakh in the UK while in the US it is around Rs 2 to 3.5 lakh. However, in Goa the price for the same is between Rs 70,000 to a lakh.
Hospitals in the state say that 75% of their clients for cosmetic surgeries is from abroad. Local Goans account for only about 5%. The rest are patients from different parts of India, including Bollywood starlets, who come to Goa to ensure secrecy.
“Those who want to keep their cosmetic surgery a secret, Goa is an ideal place. People come here on a holiday, get themselves admitted in a hospital and get the cosmetic surgery done. They leave as a changed person,” said Dr Suresh Dubhashi of Vintage hospital, Panaji. MOST WANTED Picture perfect: Many resort to plastic surgery
Panaji: Cosmetic surgeons say that the people of all ages, from a young 24 to a more mature 70, are opting for cosmetic surgery. While those in the age group of 28 to 40 generally seek breast enlargement and liposuction, those between 40 to 50 seek cosmetic surgery for post pregnancy tummy tugs.
Older people between 50 and 70 years, prefer a face lift, liposuction of hands and legs as well as a tummy tug.
“The majority of patients who come for surgery are women between the ages of 20 and 40,” added plastic surgeon Dr Rajiv Usgaocar from Manipal hospital.
Victor Albuquerque, MD, Alcon Victor Group said, “Specialised cosmetic treatment started getting popular among foreign and Indian tourists in a big way in Goa only in 2007 and we expect the numbers to increase by another 25 per cent to 50 per cent this year.”
Take the case of 70-yearold Ramesh Verma, who flew down from Delhi to Goa for a week, got himself admitted into a city hospital for a facelift to remove wrinkles and chin fat, a liposuction of the tummy and botox (baggy eyelid correction). Or that of British national Krysia Fedorowicz (58), who looked older than her age and was depressed as a result.
“I am happy I went in for cosmetic surgery in Goa. The cost is less and I was more relaxed as I was on a vacation, with hardly anything to worry about,” she said. She is determined to return this October for a tummy tug.
Dr Manish Patel, cosmetic surgeon, at Apollo Victor hospital, Margao added, “Cosmetic surgery can help those whose performance is adversely affected on account of their looks, to gain confidence. Sometimes these complications are associated to ailments that can be improved with cosmetic surgery.”
July 4, 2008, The Times of India, Goa edition
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