Health minister Ma Subramanian gave away Awards to senior transplant surgeons, nurses and counsellors in government and private hospitals. From about 185 donations in 2016, the number of donations came down to 127 in 2019 and 55 in 2020, according to data published byTRANSTAN, a state registry that networks with hospitals and registries across the state. “In the last five years, there has been an increase in the number of people heart, lungs and pancreas being utilised. In case hearts can’t be used, doctors
harvest valves,” said director of medical Services Dr S Gurunathan.TAMILNADU
L&T projects aim to STEM the tide in Tamil Nadu classrooms
Earlier this year, 25 kids from Chennai schools made it to the prestigious Dr A P J Abdul Kalam Satellite Launch Vehicle Mission 2023. This project brought together 5,000 schoolchildren from Classes VI to XII from all over India to learn about designing and developing 150 PICO satellites, which were launched by the sounding rocket on February 19, 2023, from a coastal hamlet near Chennai.
Cracking a major national programme like this one was a breakthrough for the 25 Chennai schoolchildren who were part of engineering major Larsen & Toubros engineering
futures (EF)programme. For the company, it was validation that its back-to-school projects are in a class of their own.The EF programme (launched in 2019) is one of two major CSR projects L&T has inTamil Nadu the other being Every Child A Scientist or ECAS (since 2020). The aim: To kindle scientific temper and critical thinking among students of government schools. Both programmes aim to bridge educational gaps by helping students use technology and work with cutting-edge TEACHING and Learning Resources. The
EFprogramme integrates the four disciplines of STEM (science, technology, engineering, maths) into a learning paradigm based on real-world applications. The ECAS program me helps children improve their academic scores and provides them opportunities to learn about the earth and atmospheric sciences, biology, Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture, Health and Nutrition, physics, chemistry.So far, nearly 16,000 students from 50 schools in Nadu have been covered in the last threeand-a-half years. L&T officials say the aim is to ensure students do not get spooked by science and maths. The EF programme strives to ignite childrens innate creativity and curiosity. By offering experiential learning, complex concepts become more accessible and maths and science become less daunting, says Mabel Abraham, head-CSR, L&T. For the EF project, L&T has partnered with the NGO American India Foundation to cover Classes VI to VIII in government schools in Chennai, Kanchipuram, Chengalpet, and Tiruvallur districts.
Over 1,000 tonnes of O2 dispatched from Sterlite to Tamil Nadu districts
The quantity ofliquid oxygendespatched from the two Oxygen Plants of sealed copper smelter plantSterlitecrossed 1,000 tonnes on Monday. In a statement, the company said the milestone was reached when a truck with 16.5 metric tonnes of oxygen left to the Tuticorin and Tirunelveli medical college hospitals.
It has been
sent to 23 districts in Nadu Tuticorin, Tirunelveli, Madurai, Namakkal, Kanyakumari, Thanjavur, Krishnagiri, Dindigul, Theni, Karur, Thiruvarur, Sivagangai, Tiruchirappalli, Pudukottai, Nagapattinam, Salem, Ramanathapuram, Tenkasi, Virudhunagar, Ranipet, Kumbakonam, Mayiladuthurai and Dharmapuri. It is in addition to 712 cylinders with 4,984 cubic meters of gaseous oxygen supplied to five districts.The plant with a capacity of 1,050 metric
tonnes a day was reopened in the first week of May to produce oxygen under the direction of the apex court.TNAU gets design patent for airflow test rig
TheTamil Nadu Agricultural University(TNAU) has received a design patent for UAVdownwashAirflow test Rig from the office of the controller general of patents, designs and trademarks.
According to TNAU, use of drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for crop spraying against diseases, pests, and has increasingly become important in recent years. To measure the downwash airflow pattern generated by rotor propellers of UAV, a downwash airflowtestrig was designed and developed.
The rig is useful for investigating
the parameters and distribution laws of downwash airflow velocity of UAV sprayers in outdoor conditions.Plea to allot major part of Sterlites oxygen to south Tamil Nadu
Withoxygen availability in Maduraiand the southern region getting worse, hospitals and healthcare experts have demanded that the government take steps to provide a major portion of the lifesaving gas produced at the Sterlite plant to these districts.
The District Administration held talks with these liquid Oxygen refillers and asked them to adhere to the agreements signed with private hospitals and supply oxygen
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The cost of installing an oxygen plant has doubled from Rs 5 crore before the pandemic, according to sources in a hospital.