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थुलुङ पुनः गजल मञ्चका अध्यक्ष

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 06:14 PM PST

बेल्डाँगीका याम थुलुङलाई अध्यक्ष र शनिश्चरेका शेरु राई 'उदास'लाई उपाध्यक्षको भार सुम्पिँदै भूटान गजल मञ्चले आफ्नो नयाँ कार्यसमितिको चयन गरेको छ ।

यसैबीच जितेन मुस्कान र प्रकाश धमाला सचिवद्वयका साथै डीबी सारु मञ्चका कोषाध्यक्ष बनेका छन् । सन् २००३ मा स्थापित यस साहित्यिक संस्थाले विभिन्न शरणार्थी शिविर तथा भूटानी पुनर्स्थापना भएका विभिन्न देशबाट १९ जना सदस्यहरूको पनि चयन गरेको छ ।

Doctor, 4 employees charged of murder as resettled woman died of overdoze in US

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 02:29 AM PST

A doctor accused of running a filthy “abortion mill” for decades in an impoverished Philadelphia neighborhood delivered babies alive, killed them with scissors and allowed a woman who had survived 20 years in a refugee camp to be overmedicated and die at his clinic, prosecutors said.

The Associated Press has reported that Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 69, was charged Wednesday with eight counts of murder for the deaths of seven babies and one patient. Nine employees also were charged, including four with murder.

Prosecutors described the clinic as a “house of horrors” where Gosnell kept baby body parts on the shelves, allowed a 15-year-old high school student to perform intravenous anesthesia on patients and had his licensed cosmetologist wife do late-term abortions. A family practice physician, Gosnell has no certification in gynecology or obstetrics, the report said.

The Mongar couple

Four months after Karnamaya Mongar reached the United States after spending nearly two decades in camps in Nepal she was dead at Gosnell’s clinic. The 41-year-old mother of three died of cardiac arrest when she was given too much Demerol and other drugs, prosecutors said.

“Pennsylvania is not a third-world country. There were several oversight agencies that stumbled upon and should have shut down Kermit Gosnell long ago. But none of them did, even after Karnamaya Mongar’s death,” city prosecutors charged in a nearly 300-page grand jury report. (Download here)

The report also mentioned that the “Women’s Medical Society” opened in 1979 and was inspected by the state Department of Health only sporadically. The last inspection was in 1993. Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams accused state health officials of “utter disregard” for Gosnell’s patients, who were mostly poor minority women like Mongar.

Gosnell made millions performing thousands of dangerous abortions. A second woman, a 22-year-old mother of two from Philadelphia, died in 2000 from a perforated uterus, it added.

According to the report Mongar with her husband Ash had gone to the clinic in November 2009. Gosnell wasn’t at the clinic at the time. His staff administered the drugs repeatedly to the 4-foot-11, 110-pound Mongar as they waited for him to arrive.

“Those are the kind of stories that break your heart,” said Vicki Saporta, president of the National Abortion Federation, which rejected Gosnell from membership years ago because he did not meet its standards of care. The group’s 400 members perform about half the abortions in North America, she said.