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Post by vimala on Apr 26, 2008 10:06:01 GMT 5.5
Mobile Usage in Hospital Hello friends........ Kindly forward it to as many as people, its very important.
This is a real incident that happened in a local hospital in Bangalore, India. A 4 year old girl was admitted due to leg fracture. As it was an open fracture, she had to undergo an operation to stitch the protruding bone back in place. Though it was quite a minor operation, she was hooked on to life support system, as a part of the process. The doctors had to input some data prior to the operation to suit different conditions.Thereafter , the operation proceeded. Half way through the process, the life support system suddenly went dead.
The culprit: - Some one was using his/her hand-phone outside the operation theater. And the frequency had affected the system. They tried to track the fellow but to no avail. The little girl, young and innocent as she was dead soon after.
"Be compassionate! Do not use your hand phone /mobiles especially at any hospitals or within the Aircraft or any places where you are told not to use it... You might not be caught in the act, but you might have killed someone without knowing". Sometimes it's a matter of Life & Death....!!!!
Please pass this to as many, since most of us are just not aware of the seriousness of this issue.
Please Do copy this to Ur mail and send to contacts. Please Send this to all your contacts and help save a life.
A tiny mail can save a life.
Last Word : So friends pls.....pls.....pls...avoid using your mobile phones in hospitals... sometime its a matter of life & death.
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Post by vimala on May 10, 2008 16:35:37 GMT 5.5
Your cellphone may harm you
REUTERS [ THURSDAY, JANUARY 03, 2008 01:18:19 PM]
PARIS: The French Health Ministry issued a warning against excessive mobile phone use especially by children though it recognised science had not proved cellular technology was dangerous.
The appearance on the market of mobile phones designed for children has raised concern since youngsters would be particularly vulnerable to any possible health effects, the Ministry of Health, Youth and Sports said in a statement.
“As the hypothesis of a risk cannot be entirely excluded, precaution is justified,” the ministry said.
It recommended using mobile phones in moderation, especially among children and gave advice on how users could reduce their exposure to any possible risk.
“One should use a mobile phone with good judgment, avoid calling when reception is poor, or during high-speed travel and finally, keep the telephone away from sensitive areas of the body by using a hands-free kit,” the ministry said.
Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin said on France 2 television that mobile phones given to children could be useful safety items, but parents should be cautious about frequent use.
“Today, here and now, it does not appear useful to completely do away with or ban, mobile phones for children ... but in keeping with the principle of caution, I want to inform parents completely,” she said.
A November 2006 report from the World Health Organization (WHO) said available evidence suggests long-term exposure to radio-frequency and microwave radiation from mobile phones had no adverse health effects.
However, the WHO said other studies pointed to an increased risk of tumors in people who have used an analogue mobile phone for more than 10 years.
A British study released in September 2007 said mobile phones did not pose short-term health risks, but scientists noted that studies to date included few participants who had used mobile phones for longer than ten years -- the time many cancers take to appear.
The head of France's AFSSET, an independent but state-funded health watchdog, said parents should not give small children mobile telephones.
“Since they aren't capable of limiting their use of the telephone, parents should not buy them mobile phones,” Michele Froment-Vedrine said.
As of September 30, there were more than 53 million mobile users in France, about 84 per cent of the population, according to the French telecoms regulator Arcep.
At Orange, France's largest mobile phone operator, no-one was available for comment.
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