As a part of the State Government’s school health programme, AMC will run a major drive on health checkups for children up to 14 years of age from November 28 to January 20, said Mayor Amit Shah on Thursday.
Speaking at a joint press briefings, Shah said the general checkup will be organised at anganwadis in all the wards as well as urban health centres. Children would be treated as per the findings. If needed, children would be taken for free diagnosis and treatment at U N Mehta Cardiology Institute, Institute of Kidney Disease and Research and M P Shah Cancer Hospital. Deputy Mayor Dinesh Makwana, Standing Committee Chairperson Madhuben Patel and Health Committee Chairman Bhashan Bhatt also addressed the meet.
In serious cases, where surgery would not be possible in the State, treatment would be referred outside Gujarat and expenses would be borne by State Government. Children with vision problem would be given free spectacles, Shah added.
Source: Expressindia.com
AMC health check-up drive for schoolchildren
November 24, 2006, 9:48 amOut of gas? Just pick up the cellphone and SMS
November 24, 2006, 9:46 am
If you are an LPG customer of Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), you have now one more channel of booking a cylinder: by sending an SMS to ‘2626’. This comes in addition to the service already available, where a customer can do a booking by calling up the IOC’s toll free number ‘1260’.
The PSU company has tied up with some major mobile service-providers like Idea, BSNL, Reliance and Tata Indicom. Talks are on to tie up with Hutch and Airtel. Inaugurated on October 28, the SMS booking service (for Indane brand of LPG) has been covered by IOC in nearly 40-45 distribution centres in the city. ‘‘There are just a few more of our distributors left, otherwise the service has been almost fully initiated in the city. Only the awareness among people is very low. Therefore, soon we will be introducing an answering machine which will explain to the customers about the service and how it is to be availed,’’ said Major S S Naggi, Chief Area Manager (LPG) of IOC.
The customers will now be required to first register their mobile numbers along with their respective distributor’s phone number and their customer number. For initial registration, customers will be required to type a message — ‘IOC 079 (distributor’s number) (customer ID number)’, and send it to ‘2626’. The database prepared by NEI Technology will recognise the mobile phone number along with the other two numbers and save it forever.
‘‘The initial registration makes sure that the mobile phone number is fed into the system which recognises which customer’s gas is to be booked everytime the message is sent from that number,’’ said a sales officer. Once registered, a customer can book the gas by sending a message — ‘IOC BK’.
IOC also has a toll free number ‘1260’ for landline registration, but officials say many are not using this. ‘‘We are trying to train our distributors to raise awareness among the customers for both the services because not many of our customers are using the landline number which has been in service for two years,’’ said Naggi, adding that the SMS service would soon be introduced in cities like Gandhinagar, Vadodara and Surat.
Source: Expressindia.com
The PSU company has tied up with some major mobile service-providers like Idea, BSNL, Reliance and Tata Indicom. Talks are on to tie up with Hutch and Airtel. Inaugurated on October 28, the SMS booking service (for Indane brand of LPG) has been covered by IOC in nearly 40-45 distribution centres in the city. ‘‘There are just a few more of our distributors left, otherwise the service has been almost fully initiated in the city. Only the awareness among people is very low. Therefore, soon we will be introducing an answering machine which will explain to the customers about the service and how it is to be availed,’’ said Major S S Naggi, Chief Area Manager (LPG) of IOC.
The customers will now be required to first register their mobile numbers along with their respective distributor’s phone number and their customer number. For initial registration, customers will be required to type a message — ‘IOC 079 (distributor’s number) (customer ID number)’, and send it to ‘2626’. The database prepared by NEI Technology will recognise the mobile phone number along with the other two numbers and save it forever.
‘‘The initial registration makes sure that the mobile phone number is fed into the system which recognises which customer’s gas is to be booked everytime the message is sent from that number,’’ said a sales officer. Once registered, a customer can book the gas by sending a message — ‘IOC BK’.
IOC also has a toll free number ‘1260’ for landline registration, but officials say many are not using this. ‘‘We are trying to train our distributors to raise awareness among the customers for both the services because not many of our customers are using the landline number which has been in service for two years,’’ said Naggi, adding that the SMS service would soon be introduced in cities like Gandhinagar, Vadodara and Surat.
Source: Expressindia.com
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