Mysore/Mysuru: The State Health Department has settled the bills of 9,136 patients and released Rs. 22.14 crore to private hospitals for providing treatment to COVID-19 patients. Medical Education Minister Dr. K. Sudhakar said that as on Aug.28, various private hospitals has treated 42,291 patients referred by the Government and hospitals have billed Rs. 169.55 crore…
Mega e-adalat on Sept. 19
August 30, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Amidst COVID-19, a mega e-adalat will be held across the State on Sept. 19, according to Justice Arvind Kumar, Executive Chairman, Karnataka State Legal Services Authority. Talking to reporters through video conference on Friday, he said that Karnataka is the first State to do it at a time when the country was gripped by…
Covishield clinical trial begins at JSS Hospital
August 29, 2020Mysuru District Hospital begins to issue COVID Death Certificates Mysore/Mysuru: The much-awaited clinical trial of COVID-19 vaccine – Covishield – developed by the University of Oxford began at JSS Hospital in city this morning. Pune-based Serum Institute of India partnered with AstraZeneca to manufacture the COVID-19 vaccine candidate. The volunteers received their first doses intramuscularly…
District Hospital begins to issue COVID Death Certificates
August 29, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: The process of issuing automated and printed death certificates for people who die of Coronavirus infection at the designated COVID-19 Hospital — District Hospital on KRS Road — has begun since yesterday and the relatives of the deceased can approach the Hospital for the death certificates. Till now the certificates were being issued manually…
Clubs can open for sports and food; no liquor
August 28, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Following reports in media that pubs and bars are likely to open next month (Sept. 1) in Karnataka, Principal Secretary of Revenue Department (Disaster Management) and Member-Secretary of State Executive Committee, Anjum Parvez has clarified that all social clubs have been restricted from serving liquor. They can only open doors for sports activities and…
Orchestra artistes seek financial aid
August 28, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Orchestra singers, artistes and technicians, under the banner of Gaanagandharva Kalabalaga Trust, staged a demonstration in front of the Deputy Commissioner’s Office in city on Wednesday. The protestors demanded financial support from the Government as they are left with no other means of livelihood due to COVID-19 outbreak and the subsequent lockdown. Maintaining that…
Rush for COVID Test
August 27, 2020Health Department plans Sero survey in Mysuru Mysore/Mysuru: People braved hot sun this morning and stood in a long queue in front of the Town Hall where Rapid Antigen Tests were being conducted to identify COVID-19 infected persons and to check the spread of the disease. Serpentine queue was witnessed and people had come voluntarily…
State IAS Officers resent FIR against Mysuru ZP CEO
August 27, 2020Bengaluru: Even as the inquiry into the alleged suicide of Nanjangud in-charge Taluk Health Officer (THO) Dr. S.R. Nagendra has begun, the Karnataka IAS Officers’ Association has said the act of lodging an FIR against Mysuru Zilla Panchayat Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Prashanth Kumar Mishra (now transferred without posting) has brought down the morale of…
CFTRI staff undergo swab test
August 27, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: A swab test began for the staff of Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) here this morning. It is being jointly organised by Mysuru City Corporation (MCC), District Health and Family Welfare and CFTRI. Today, 150 staff members have registered their names for the swab test and the rest 250 will undergo in the…
Quarantine Musings: A city doctor’s experience
August 27, 2020By Dr. Shyam Sarvodey, Paediatrician A month ago, as we emerged from the lockdown, positive cases began to soar and one fine morning, I received a frantic call from the ER (Emergency Room) to attend to a 54-day-old infant. Being the attending Paediatrician, I fastidiously donned my PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) and showed up at…
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