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Pawan Dalal 🇮🇳 retweeted
The most expensive part of a hospital bill may never touch the hospital at all.
A patient admitted for care has no way of knowing whether the price on a medical consumable reflects its actual cost or a markup fixed long before it ever reached the ward. That gap in information is, at its core, a public health issue.
A survey of hospital consumables in Maharashtra found an IV infusion set with a trade price of ₹11.05 carrying a printed MRP of ₹325 ; a markup of 2,841%. A syringe procured at ₹6.75 carried an MRP of ₹57.20. A catheter procured at ₹29.41 carried an MRP of ₹310.
These are not elective purchases. Patients cannot compare prices, seek alternatives, or question a number printed on a box while receiving care and the MRP itself is often fixed upstream by manufacturers and distributors, disconnected from the trade price by a wide, unexplained margin. The result is a system where the party bearing the cost has the least information to evaluate it.
The regulatory gap is structural: scheduled medicines are capped under the Drugs (Prices Control) Order, 2013. Most medical devices and consumables are not leaving both the pricing and the information around it almost entirely unmonitored.
A review of these findings and clear guidelines on the permissible gap between trade procurement price and declared MRP have been recommended to the Department of Pharmaceuticals and the NPPA ; a step toward closing not just a pricing gap, but the information gap patients are left to bear alone.
#PublicHealth #GoodGovernance #Leadership #TukaramMundhe
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Pawan Dalal 🇮🇳 retweeted
This is a myth. 🚨
The so-called 'Dharma Chakra' of Ashoka is NOT Buddhist. Rather, it is Vedic.
Historically, this was originally the pillar and wheel of the ancient Vājapeya ritual.
The pillar is the cosmic representation of Agni/Rudra, and the Chakra is Sūrya (the sun).
Hindus have worshiped this exact stambha and Chakra for thousands of years BEFORE the Buddha was even born
Pawan Dalal 🇮🇳 retweeted
Why doing the right thing becomes exceptional ?
Public service is about having the courage to put public interest above self interest, commitment above comfort.
#TukaramMundhe
What stops babus from being Tukaram Mundhe or Ashok Khemka? - India Today indiatoday.in/sunday-special…
Pawan Dalal 🇮🇳 retweeted
How much of India's infrastructure was built after 2014?
• 100% of Dedicated Freight Corridors
• 98% of Solar Capacity
• 85% of the Expressway Network
• 79% of Tap Water Access
• 75% of Metro Rail
• 71% of Port Capacity
• 69% of Railway Electrification
• 60% of 4-Lane National Highways
Infrastructure is built over decades.
But some decades build more than others.
Pawan Dalal 🇮🇳 retweeted
Tadoba, Maharashtra - A family returning from a safari in the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve witnessed a dramatic wildlife moment when the well-known tigress Chhoti Madhu emerged from tall grass with her three cubs .As the tigress and her cubs crossed near the road, an unaware biker approached the scene. A timely flash of headlights from the family’s vehicle averted a potentially dangerous encounter. The rare and tense sequence was captured on camera, highlighting both the beauty of the wild and the need for caution in tiger habitats.
Pawan Dalal 🇮🇳 retweeted
A pickup truck swerving across lanes on Malshej Ghat. Off the road into a puddle, narrowly missing a biker. Then straight into oncoming traffic.
Witnesses assumed drunk driving. When they finally forced the truck to stop, the driver was still holding his phone to his ear.
Bystanders confiscated his keys. Police arrived moments later and took over.
No one was hurt this time → only because ordinary people refused to look away. 📱🚫
A phone call is never worth what almost happened on this ghat road.
Pawan Dalal 🇮🇳 retweeted
#BREAKING: Terrorist attack on Kokernag-Anantnag Road of South Kashmir. One J&K Police personnel critically injured, rushed to the hospital. J&K Police responded to the fire by terrorists. Terrorists have fled from the scene. Additional forces rushed. Massive Ops underway.
Pawan Dalal 🇮🇳 retweeted
🔴 Day 1,762 since the Taliban banned secondary education for girls in Afghanistan.
The fight for equal opportunities for all Afghan girls is a fight for our shared humanity. The world should join it.
You are not forgotten.
#Afghanistan #LetAfghanGirlsLearn
Pawan Dalal 🇮🇳 retweeted
#Chhatrapati_Sambhajinagar:
Ather has started Managerial Posts Recruitment for their Factory 3.0 at Auric City.
Job Profile: Production Head
Experience Req.: 14 years+
Company: Ather Energy (EV)
Location: Bidkin, @AURICCity
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Pawan Dalal 🇮🇳 retweeted
When people lose expectations of any semblance of some justice, they have nothing but utter disdain for the courts. This is what most of us feel, but do not dare to utter because ultimately, we all have to see refuge of the very same institution.
Pawan Dalal 🇮🇳 retweeted
व्यक्ती नव्हे, व्यवस्था
अन्नातील भेसळ हा केवळ कायद्याचा विषय नाही; तो लाखो कुटुंबांच्या आरोग्याचा, भावी पिढ्यांच्या सुरक्षिततेचा आणि समाजाच्या नैतिकतेचा प्रश्न आहे.
व्यक्ती नव्हे, व्यवस्था मजबूत झाली पाहिजे.
#FoodSafety #GoodGovernance #Leadership #TukaramMundhe
Pawan Dalal 🇮🇳 retweeted
The @MSEDCL power distribution network at many peripheral areas of the #Pune metro region (PMC, PCMC, PMRDA) has many issues! Too many recurrent problems. Needs urgent attention.
cc @SidShirole @ChDadaPatil @madhurimisal @maheshklandge @Dev_Fadnavis
"Work-from-home turns into ordeal as power outages hit Pune’s IT hub -- Residents said that with power supply remaining disrupted for up to three days in several localities"
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Pawan Dalal 🇮🇳 retweeted
Residents of Ravet in Pimpri-Chinchwad reached their boiling point after enduring 48 consecutive hours of power outage, marching to the local Mahavitaran (MSEB) office in a show of strong protest on Monday. With the city in the middle of the monsoon season, spending two days and nights in complete darkness without electricity pushed the already frustrated citizens over the edge. Angry protesters gathered outside the Mahavitaran office, raised slogans, and demanded immediate restoration of power supply and accountability from the administration. The incident has highlighted the growing concerns about the reliability of power infrastructure in the rapidly developing Ravet area during the monsoon season.
#RavetPowerCut #Mahavitaran #PimpriChinchwad #PowerOutage #CitizenProtest
Pawan Dalal 🇮🇳 retweeted
At Mankanhalli in Hassan district of Karnataka stand a unique stone placed during British era. Rainwater falling rightside of this stone flows E-ward through Kaveri River & ultimately reaches BoB;while rainwater falling leftside flows W-ward in Netravati River to Arabian Sea?
Pawan Dalal 🇮🇳 retweeted
Conclusion: Mumbai - Pune people should suffer for 355 days of the year because landslides may happen 10 days a year
२०१३ मध्ये तत्कालीन मुख्यमंत्री पृथ्वीराज चव्हाण यांनी मिसिंग लिंक प्रकल्पाला मंजुरी नाकारली होती.
कारण काय?
सुरक्षिततेबाबत १३ गंभीर आक्षेप नोंदवले गेले होते. त्यात लोनावळा धरणाजवळील संरेखन, बोगद्यांची सुरक्षितता, भूगर्भीय स्थिरता आणि इतर तांत्रिक मुद्द्यांचा समावेश होता. या कारणांमुळे प्रकल्पाचा आराखडा बदलावा लागला.
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