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Wednesday, 24 January 2018

[www.keralites.net] BLOOD DONATION FACTS BELOW 60 YEARS

BLOOD DONATION FACTS BELOW 60 YEARS
Some Facts on Blood Donation
An adult has about 5 litres of blood in the body.
Typically, about 300 ml (anywhere between 200 and 450 ml) of blood is taken by a blood bank (depending on requirement) from a person.
The blood donated is recouped by the body within 2 to 7 days.
One unit of blood(about 450 ml) helps save 3 lives.
This is because, the blood taken from a donor is separated into its components (Red cells, White cells, Plasma and Platelets), each of which can be transfused into the blood of a recipient, separately.
It takes approximately 10 minutes to remove one unit of blood from the donor . Including the time taken for filling up a form prior to donation, a physical examination (BP and weight) of the donor and the time to relax after donating blood, the whole process can be completed in about 45 minutes to an hour.
The blood removed from the donor is tested for HIV, Hepatitis B and C, Syphilis, Malaria parasite and blood group. In other words, persons affected with diabetes and taking medicines to keep diabetes under control can also donate blood.
Whenever you donate blood, you will be removing excess cholesterol accumulated in the blood, thus reducing the chance of heart attack.
Take some biscuits / cake and coffee / tea / fruit juice, after donating blood and sit (lie down if you feel giddy) for about 5 to 10 minutes.
The donor can resume regular activities after about 30 minutes of donating blood. Avoid the following:
Climbing stairs within 30 minutes
Smoking
Every year, our nation requires about 4 crore units of blood while availability is 40 Lac units (estimates differ - another info states that requirement is 90 Lac units and availability is 40 Lac units; all the same, there is a definite shortage of blood in the country for saving lives)Donating blood is a safe process - a fresh needle is used for each person and there is no fear of contracting any disease. The no 1 reason given by donors to donate blood is "I want to help others". The two major reasons for a person not donating blood is "Never thought about it" and "I don't like needles" Persons from the age of 18 to the age of 60 can donate blood, except when they are affected with HIV +ve, cancer, Hepatitis B or C (within the previous 3 years), seizures, syphilis, and women during their menstruating cycle.

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[www.keralites.net] Bridge-man Girish Bharadwaj has constructed around 127 hanging bridges across streams and rivers

Bridge-man Girish Bharadwaj has constructed around 127 hanging bridges across streams and rivers

Bridge-man Girish Bharadwaj helps people crossover in lives-1

He has constructed over 91 bridges in Karnataka, 30 in Kerala, 3 each in Andhra and Odisha till date.

Bharadwaj has constructed around 127 hanging bridges across streams and rivers in remotest areas and has helped people living in far-flung areas to enter the mainstream and the mainland.

Girish Bharadwaj, son of B Krishna Bhat and Lakshmiamma began his journey by constructing a 55 meter long bridge near across river Cauvery in Nisargadhama near Kushalanagar. He followed it up with an 87 meter long bridge across river Payaswini in his hometown Sullia and the 290 meter long bride in Hukkeri of Belagavi district,being the longest, constructed in 1998.

Resident of Arambur in Aletty village of Sullia, Girish graduated in mechanical engineering and started his adventurous journey by manufacturing agricultural implements and gobar gas equipment to make life easier for rural folk. Later he shifted towards construction of hanging bridges and never looked back thereafter with his friendly approach to address people's problems in villages marooned by floods during rainy season.

Girish Bhardwaj strongly believed in friendly approach in attaining his goals and took to building bridges in the trouble torn world. Girish recollects a touching moment in his life and feels none should be treated as untouchables based on that incident in 2007. He was asked to construct a hanging bridge in Laknavaram village of Warangal district across a large lake. The entire area was under Naxal dominance that time, and Girish was asked to shelve his plans. Undeterred by the threats, Girish took a decision to go ahead and succeeded in completing the entire project within a short span of four months. Astonished by the 'Sea Change' in the 'living atmosphere', teary-eyed locals including Naxals fell at Girish's feet to express their gratitude. Girish considered it as one of the greatest achievements as he had conquered the hearts of 'armed men considered threat to society' through friendship, love and mutual respect. He had overcome forces that were trying to build walls and stall development. In the end, hostile naxals showed innate urge to enter the mainstream.

Gold medals for excellence

Girish Bhardwaj served in state home guards department for 24 years form 1984-2008. During that period he excelled in providing first aid and in training official and staff of Home guards department. Girish was awarded two Gold medals after he stood first in both the fields.. Later, he underwent training in fire fighting at Delhi and served as the head of fire services division and donned the role of command officer in Sullia.

In his marvelous journey of touching and changing lives, he bagged several awards and appreciations including DK District Rajyothsava Award in 2011.

'Padma Shri' for Social work given by Union Government during 2017 is the latest feather in his glorious cap and Girish attributes success to his 'Ayashilpa' team..(Aya means steel in Sanskrit and Shilpa means art).

https://www.newskarnataka.com/mangalore/bridge-man-girish-bharadwaj-helps-people-crossover-in-lives

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Tuesday, 23 January 2018

[www.keralites.net] Dr. G. Venkataswamy - founder of Aravind Eye Hospital - A vehicle to do seva to the poor

Dr. G. Venkataswamy or 'Dr. V' as he is affectionately called is the founder chairman of Aravind Eye Hospital. He was born on October 1, 1918 in Vadamalapuram, a village eighty kilometers from Madurai. He began his university education in the American college, Madurai from which he graduated with a B.A. in chemistry. He received his medical degree from Stanley Medical College at Madurai in 1944.

Thereafter, he joined the Indian Army Medical Corps but had to retire in 1948 after developing rheumatoid arthritis. At one point, the arthritis became so severe that he was bedridden for over a year. For a time, he struggled just to walk and could not hold a pen in his badly crippled fingers.

Despite his condition, he returned to medical school and earned his diploma and masters degree in Ophthalmology. Through his hard work and determination, Dr. V learned how to hold a scalpel and perform cataract surgery. Eventually, he was able to perform more than one hundred surgeries a day.

Dr. V joined the faculty at Madurai Medical College, a government school , where he was appointed head of the Department of Ophthalmology and later served as Vice- Dean of the college. During his period of government service, Dr. V introduced a number of innovative programmes to deal with the problem of blindness in India. He developed the outreach eye camp programmes in 1960, a rehabilitation centre for the blind in 1966, and the creation of an ophthalmic Assistants Training programme in 1973. In his clinical work, Dr. V personally performed over one hundred thousand successful eye surgeries.

In recognition of his work in the fight against blindness, Dr, V received the Padmashree award in 1973 by the Government of India. This award is given to citizens, who have rendered outstanding service to their nation. In 1976, after mandatory retirement from government service at age of 58, Dr. V resolved to continue his work in eye care delivery. With support from his family, he founded Aravind Eye Hospital in Madurai , a non profit institution dedicated to providing high quality eye care to all patients who come to its door.

Dr. V blends his spiritual life to his daily work remarkably well. As a young man, he became a disciple of Sri Aurobindo, an Indian philosopher and saint who lived in service to God and man. Aravind was founded on this principle of service and continues to be guided by it.

In 1991, as part of its Wit lectures series, Dr. V was invited to deliver an address at the Harvard Divinity School on the theme of living a spiritual life in the contemporary age. The address entitled 'Illuminated Spirit', has been published and read by many people.

Dr. V begins and ends every day at the hospital with a visit to the meditation room for "a silent talk with God". In discussing his work as a spiritual practice, Dr. V has said, "When I go to meditation room at the hospital every morning, I ask God that I be a better tool, a receptacle for the divine force. We can all serve humanity in our normal professional lives by being more generous and less selfish in what we do. You don't have to be a 'religious' person to serve God. You serve God by serving humanity."

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[www.keralites.net] Detached attachment - Sudha Murthy

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I specially dedicate this post to my friends, who are totally dependant on their children's lives, to nurture their own selves emotionally.
Please develop your own intersts, hobbies etc, however mundane they seem to be..
We must learn
*To love whatever we do instead of doing whatever we love !!"*

Detached attachment must for happiness in old age......................... A must read fwd msg...

*Attachment in Detachment----*
*Written by Sudha* *Murthy, wife of* *Narayan* *Murthy.....Worth reading.......* 👌👌

"When my daughter, the older of my two, wed and left home, I felt a part of me gone.
With a daughter and a son, I know what both mean, differently.
When she was in her teens I felt as if she was my "physical extension" !
So when she left home to set up her own, I felt I lost a limb.
Next time she came to stay with us, I was astonished how her priorities had changed.
We too must've given the same shocks to our own parents !
When she said Amma,
she meant her mother-in-law, not me!
I felt she was always in a hurry to go back to her house and not stay with me for a few more days.
That was the first time, it dawned on me that I have to start practising detachment with attachment.
Two years after my daughter's marriage, my son left for higher studies to US.
Having experienced a child's separation once, I was better equipped emotionally.
I plunged head long into various classes held in the city starting from vedanta to healing to ikebana -
I just wanted to be away from home..since my husband was a 24/7 workaholic.
My son used to write how he was missing my home cooked food, how he was waiting to come back to live in India with us ...
After a few years, he did come back and we got him married.
He started living separately with his wife and we were also happy that they wanted to be independant from the beginning...
But now, it was all changed !
When in the U S, he missed my cooking, now if I called him to come over with his wife for a meal, it was always some excuse like "oh, amma, we have other plans for the day, please don't mistake us if we don't drop in today" !
I could see that his priorities had also changed completely..
We talk so many things and give so much advice to others, but when it comes to our own children, acceptance comes very late. Our next step is to just leave them undisturbed in every way.
It was at that time, that I made the following my 'new profile'.
In all my relationships, rather interactions, I give my best and do my best to live up to what I say.
My attachment with them is complete.
However, I remain detached in the sense that *I do not expect them to reciprocate my affection.*
Most importantly, I make a conscious effort , *not to interfere or pass judgements* on the lives they choose to lead.
My *concern for my near and dear ones will not fade with my detachment.*
If you let go of the ones you love, they will never go away –
this is the *beauty of attachment with detachment !*
I have learnt to love and let go.
This dictum has developed tolerance in me.
When *I let the people live the* *way they want to, I learn to accept* *them for what they are.*
Most importantly ,
I learn to tolerate the world around me and this tolerance brings in me a sense of peace and contentment.
Since both my children live in different places, I follow this very strictly, you know why !
Now *I have realised that we start growing* *mentally much more only after the children leave the house* and we have to tackle the emotional vacuum, that arises, along with age-related problems .

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[www.keralites.net] FLU may be spread by just breathing

Flu May Be Spread By Just Breathing

Flu May Be Spread By Just Breathing
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FRIDAY, Jan. 19, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- In the midst of an especially tough flu season, here's more bad news: Researchers say it may be possible to spread the virus simply by breathing.

Until now, it was thought that people picked up a flu virus when they touched contaminated surfaces or inhaled droplets in the air ejected by an infected person's coughs or sneezes.

But the new study finds coughs and sneezes may not be necessary to saturate the air with flu virus.

In the study, researchers analyzed air around the exhaled breath of 142 people with the flu.

"We found that flu cases contaminated the air around them with infectious virus just by breathing, without coughing or sneezing," said study author Dr. Donald Milton, a professor of environmental health at the University of Maryland.

"People with flu generate infectious aerosols [tiny droplets that stay suspended in the air for a long time] even when they are not coughing, and especially during the first days of illness," he explained in a university news release. "So when someone is coming down with influenza, they should go home and not remain in the workplace and infect others."

In fact, nearly half (48 percent) of the airborne samples captured in the air around flu patients who were just breathing -- not coughing or sneezing -- contained detectable influenza virus, the researchers noted.

What's more, when patients did sneeze, that didn't seem to add much to the viral count in the samples, Milton's group added.

Of course certain steps -- "keeping surfaces clean, washing our hands all the time, and avoiding people who are coughing," can still help lower your odds of catching influenza, said Sheryl Ehrman, dean of the College of Engineering at San Jose State University, in California.

But if an infected person's breathing spreads flu virus, even those precautions do "not provide complete protection from getting the flu," she added.

That means that if you are unlucky enough to get the flu, "staying home and out of public spaces could make a difference," Ehrman said.

The researchers believe their findings could help improve mathematical models of the risk of airborne flu transmission and could also be used to develop better public health flu prevention measures.

For example, improvements could be made to ventilation systems in places such as offices, school classrooms and subway cars, to reduce the risk of flu transmission, the team said.

The United States is in the middle of a particularly nasty flu season, with nearly all states reporting high levels of severe flu, and hospitals swamped with cases. Experts blame the severity of this year's flu season on a particularly virulent strain of flu and prolonged periods of very cold weather.

The study was published Jan. 18 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

-- Robert Preidt

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Wednesday, 24 January 2018

[www.keralites.net] BLOOD DONATION FACTS BELOW 60 YEARS

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[www.keralites.net] Bridge-man Girish Bharadwaj has constructed around 127 hanging bridges across streams and rivers

Tuesday, 23 January 2018

[www.keralites.net] Dr. G. Venkataswamy - founder of Aravind Eye Hospital - A vehicle to do seva to the poor

[www.keralites.net] Detached attachment - Sudha Murthy

[www.keralites.net] FLU may be spread by just breathing

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