THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:Health Minister V S Sivakumar will inaugurate the medical camp for children with disabilities which will be held at the Government UPS, Fort, popular by the name ‘Satram School’, on Friday. The Minister will distribute Assistive devices at the programme.

Punjab on Sunday launched a Statewide novel campaign to motivate people in general and vehicle drivers in particular to pledge their eyes and other body parts to benefit lakhs of visually impaired people of the country and other patients in dire need of transplantation of various body parts.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Two visually-challenged individuals have lost their lives after being hit by a train at the Kadakkavoor railway station here late on Saturday night. The deceased were identified as Bijo Varghese and Shaji Daniel from Tiruvalla and Seethathodu respectively in Pathanamthitta district. According to police, both the deceased were in the district to attend a public function at the Blind School in Varkala.

THRISSUR:Transport Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan visited Thrissur KSRTC stand on Friday, where a bus had rammed into two blind cricketers based out of Palakkad, killing them in the process, on 14th Sunday.

THRISSUR: In a tragic accident, two visually-challenged cricket players were crushed to death by a low-floor AC bus of the Kerala Urban Road Transport Corporation (KURTC) at the bus stand here on Sunday morning. The deceased were identified as Ratheesh, 29, and  Vinod, 32, members of blind cricket team Dragon Stars based in Palakkad.