Sanatan Bharat

While world has been realing under the spells of H1N1 virus a new bacteria has emerged and it has taken its first toll in Britain.

Richard Johnson was admitted to the hospital and was given painkillers by the doctors who thought it is arthritis. Later it turned out to be the “necrotising fasciitis” and surgeons have to amputate his left leg to save his life.

The surgeons watched in horror while the black area started to spread to the abdomen and ultimately killing the man.

Following are taken from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1211661/Flesh-eating-superbug-killed-father-just-hours-coroner-warns-new-horror.html

The disease is an infection which sweeps through the body so fast, internally and externally, that it can be seen spreading through naken eyes which resembles a Sci-fi horror story.

Mr Johnson had first been prescribed painkillers by his family doctor Jan Shorney.

He then developed a pain in his left ankle which Dr Shorney and an out-of-hours doctor believed to be arthritis.

His condition deteriorated so quickly that by the time his family rushed him to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital at 3.10 am it was too late to save him.

He was rushed straight into the operating theatre where surgeons tried to cut away the diseased tissue but found the infection was spreading too quickly to control.

Greater Devon coroner Dr Elizabeth Earland recorded a verdict of natural causes on Mr Johnson, who died at 7.00 am on November 18 last year.

A post mortem examination showed he died from septicaemia as a result of the necrotising fasciitis.

She said: ‘My intention is to write to the hospital to confirm the gravity of this case. Information about it is being disseminated and I recommend that is pursued.

‘This is a new horror reaching us and arising in out thoughts and it is important as many GPs are made aware of it as soon as possible and perhaps an early reaction can be stimulated.

‘I do not have any evidence that earlier action would have made a difference in this case.

‘Mr Johnson began to suffer a sore throat in mid November which developed into fulminating necrotising fasciitis.

‘The family have my deepest sympathies for this tragic loss.’

Family doctor Dr Jan Shorney said Mr Johnson visited her on November 11 with a sore throat and she advised him to take painkillers.

He asked for a home visit on November 17, less than 24 hours before he died, and complained of a left ankle which was sore despite having suffered no injury.

There was only slight swelling and no redness and his pulse and temperature were normal and she prescribed stronger painkillers and an anti-inflammatory drug.

She advised him to go into surgery for a blood test if it did not clear up.

He called 45 minutes later to say the pain was not going away and was told to carry on taking the medicines.

He was in so much pain that by 9.30pm his family contacted the out-of-hours service and took him to the walk-in centre at the hospital in Exeter where he was seen by on-call GP Dr Patrick Fingleton.

He examined the swollen ankle and saw no breaks in the skin. He diagnosed arthritis and prescribed oral morphine.

He believed the earlier painkillers had not worked because the patient was also suffering from diarrhoea and vomiting.

He said he was shocked to hear of Mr Johnson’s death and had met the consultant microbiologist at the hospital Dr Marina Morgan to learn more about necrotising fasciitis.

He said: ‘I have been a doctor for 12 years and a GP for five or six years and I have seen a lot of painful ankles and lots of cases of diarrhoea and vomiting but I had never seen a case of necrotising fasciitis.’

Mr Johnson’s condition deteriorated so quickly that his family took him back to the accident and emergency department of the same hospital five and a half hours later.

Consultant plastic surgeon Dr Andrew Watts said he carried out the amputation above the knee but feared it was too late to stop the spread of the disease.

He said: ‘It was clear he was very sick. There was widespread mottling of the abdomen and chest and to some extent the right leg.

‘I discovered he had died at approximately 7.00 am. Unfortunately the outcome is what had been predicted from shortly after he was admitted.’
What is necrotizing fasciitis?

Necrotizing fasciitis is a rare infection of the deeper layers of skin.

It can be caused by many types of bacteria, which usually enter via an open wound, for example following surgery.

Despite being known as a ‘flesh-eating’ bug, the bacteria do not actually eat the tissue.

They cause the destruction of skin and muscle by releasing toxins.

Symptoms usually begin with patients complaining of intense pain in the area where the infection began.

In the early stages, signs of inflammation may not appear.

Redness and swollen or hot skin will show up quicker if the bacteria is closer to the surface of the skin.

As the disease progresses, skin colour may change to violet and blisters may form, with tissue then turning black as it dies.

Patients with necrotizing fasciitis typically have a fever and appear very ill. Diarrhoea and vomiting are also common symptoms.

Mortality rates have been noted as high as 73 per cent if left untreated.

Once the disease is diagnosed it is almost always necessary to cut away the infected tissue to stop it from spreading.

The saga of looting motherland never seems to end. Every now and then motherland has been subjected to barbarian looting. Starting from Alexander, Mahmud Gazanvi to mid day robbers British all tried to plunder motherland in whatever means they could. They did their best to wipe out our country from the face of the Earth however we survived all of them and kept on flourishing. Now in the modern era we might think that this looting will stop but we are just like ostrich who buries his head in sand to avoid seeing the try danger. These visionary of modern India are worse than those barbarians from the past who were at least didn’t hide their Identity.

Looting upper middle class was not enough and now these capitalist vultures are breaking into poorest of poor people’s pocket to rob them of their last saved penny.

Tata Nano is not a car of for the poor but it is the medium of looting the money from poor. Tata’s spent 4 years in planning this looting and now it has come to its culmination. Whole country is celebrating and even those who are being robbed are celebrating in the belief that now they have got wheels and they can be at par with those upper class riches who have been enjoying the fruit of the greatest economic success story of modern era.

However in this euphoric celebration everyone forgets where on the Earth they will run this car?

Where are the roads?

Where is the air?

We barely have sufficient O2 in the already over polluted atmosphere to breathe and survive and now these Nanos will suck out remaining O2 from the air too and leave us nothing but to breathe Carbon Monoxide.

I’m not complaining, I’m waking up my fellow countrymen to open their eyes and see what is happening behind their hypnotic sleep.

The country is being robbed of its last remaining resources and we are celebrating.

Open your eyes Bharat and save this most ancient spiritual civilization from the clutches of white collar robbers.

First it was the Internet, then came the Earth and now sky, Google has spread its wings and went live in skyp with the launch of Google Sky.

With Google Sky you could be able to explore sky in the same manner as you did with Google Earth, but alas there are no humans to ogle at :) It would be just stars, light and darkness with barren lands, cold and hot planets and distance qasers beaming their mysterious lights.

Google sky will be a blessing for those budding sky watchers who couldn’t afford a Hubble in their backyard.

And guess what you don’t need to wait anymore for the cloudless night to stare in the sky. Google Sky is available 24×7x365.

As per reports 12 Hindu Pilgrims have died and scores injured in a stampede during a religious festival at the hilltop temple of the Goddess Mahakali in Panchmahal near Ahmadabad in Gujarat.

Hindu pilgrims will never learn the lesson and authorities/organizers of religious festivals continue to turn blind eyes to the importance of safety. This is not the first time that such incident has happened. It keeps on happening each and every year.

The responsibilities of such incidents lie with authorities who fail to regulate the influx of pilgrims in such places. Most of the Hindu shrines/temples are situated on either hilltops or in narrow places or high on snowy mountains and access to these places are not only narrow but also difficult. Add thousands, sometimes millions, of pilgrims flocking to these places all at same time and you will get an idea of a catastrophic incident waiting to happen.

It is not too difficult to organize and regulate the flow of pilgrims. Best example is last Mahakumbh at Prayag. It went smoothly without any incident and it is more than miracle in itself. Considered to be the largest gathering of human race at any single place, Mahakumbh was more than triumph for the authorities. Organizing such small gathering as in Panchamahal could not have been a difficult task.

Given the history of such incidents authoriti4es should have taken necessary steps to prevent such fatal incidents happening. Don’t forget that most of such pilgrims come from rural area and have no common sense of following any rules of safety and in such cases it is up to the authorities to provide complete safety.

The authorities responsible for such incident should be punished and lesson should be learn from this event to take care of organizing such events with all safety precautions.

All said well, is there anyone listening to me?

Om Shanti!!!

In Hindu’s philosophy there is no beginning and no end. “Brahmand”, the Universe, is said to be a continuous unending journey without any start and without any end.

The meaning of word “Sanatan” is eternal, which would be a transliteration rather than true meaning. Most of Sanskrit words can’t find a true meaning in Western languages.

Sanatan Bharat is the place where I’ll be starting my journey to the next phase of my life, the destination of which still remains unknown to the world.