Bhopal, Narmadapuram divisions have 3076 trained Gosewaks

Bhopal:Saturday, June 20, 2009: A Gosewak Yojana is being implemented in the state with a view to providing veterinary services to animal rearers at the Gram Panchayat level itself. So far, 3076 Gosewaks have been trained in Bhopal and Narmadapuram divisions. Both the divisions have 4575 Gram Panchayats. The Animal Husbandry Department is trying to ensure that each Gram Panchayat has at least one Gosewak.

Every Gosewak is imparted 6-month training in veterinary treatment after which they are given toolkits. District-wise, there are Gosewaks in 150 out of 194 Gram Panchayats of Bhopal, 374 out of 499 Gram Panchayats of Sehore, all the 501 Gram Panchayats of Raisen, 308 out of 581 Gram Panchayats of Vidisha and 584 out of 602 Gram Panchayats of Rajgarh while in Narmadapuram division there are Gosewaks in 512 out of 558 Gram Panchayats in Betul district, 433 out of 429 Gram Panchayats in Hoshangabad district and 114 out of 211 Gram Panchayats in Harda district. Apart from providing veterinary treatment, these Gosewaks also apprise villagers of department schemes.

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By :  News Team

Dr Tejaswi donated blood to save critically ill AIDS patient life

By : www.theindiapost.com :  55 yrs old Mr Radheshyam Chowdhary (Name Changed) from Vaishali, who is suffering from  AIDS and is put under WHO stage IV category was in acute need of blood for his survival. None of his family members were ready to donate blood for him except his wife Krishna Chowdhary ( Name Changed), 46 yrs old, but she couldn't donate as she was underweight. Radheshyam's treating physician Dr Diwakar Tejaswi understanding the situation himself donated blood to save his patients life today. After the recovery of Radheshyam's condition, Dr Tejaswi stated that HIV/AIDS in Bihar is increasing rapidly and it is unfortunate that still there is widespread misconception regarding the disease in Bihar. He urged all the healthy people of Bihar aged between 18-60 years, weighing more than 45 kg and having hemoglobin more than 12.5 gram/dl  to donate blood atleast twice yearly so that there will be no scarcity of blood in blood banks.