Staff shortage at District Hospital: Patients, doctors exchange barbs
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Staff shortage at District Hospital: Patients, doctors exchange barbs

May 9, 2021

Mysore/Mysuru: As the number of Corona positive cases and deaths is increasing day by day in the district, patients and doctors are exchanging barbs with their complaints. The patients, who are being treated at District Covid Hospital, have complained of lack of care by doctors and non-availability of medicines. Countering this, doctors contended that they have…

No Stock, No Jab from Tuesday?
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No Stock, No Jab from Tuesday?

May 9, 2021

Mysore/Mysuru: Free vaccination sites may be forced to put up ‘No Stock’ board in front of the centres in city from May 11 if the fresh stock of vaccine failed to arrive within the next 48 hours. Highly placed sources told SOM that as on today, they have a stock of 12,000 doses which may…

DCGI approves DRDO’s anti-COVID oral drug ‘2-DG’ for emergency use
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DCGI approves DRDO’s anti-COVID oral drug ‘2-DG’ for emergency use

May 9, 2021

New Delhi: The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has approved the emergency use of DRDO’s anti-COVID-19 therapeutic oral drug 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) as adjunct therapy in moderate to severe COVID-19 patients. On May 1, the DCGI granted permission for ‘Emergency Use’ of this drug. Being a generic molecule and analogue of glucose, it can be…

Telemedicine team helps 7,000 home-isolated
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Telemedicine team helps 7,000 home-isolated

May 9, 2021

Ensuring health management of those in home quarantine so that depression is kept at bay Mysore/Mysuru: In the absence of a medical cure for COVID-19, the needed response is a simple public health strategy of isolation for those infected or at risk, reduced social contact to slow the spread of the virus and simple hygiene…

SC sets up National Task Force to look into oxygen distribution
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SC sets up National Task Force to look into oxygen distribution

May 9, 2021

New Delhi: The Supreme Court (SC) has constituted a 12-member National Task Force to streamline and ensure the “effective and transparent” allocation of liquid medical oxygen on a “scientific, rational and equitable basis” to States and Union Territories fighting COVID-19. The Apex Court had expressed its dissatisfaction at the Centre’s earlier “oxygen-for-bed” formula. This “rough-and-ready”…

Involve medicos for COVID service with caution: Expert tells Govt.
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Involve medicos for COVID service with caution: Expert tells Govt.

May 9, 2021

Bengaluru: All the required medical consumables needed for the health workers should be supplied uniformly across all the hospitals before roping in medical students for COVID-19 duty, opined Dr. N. K.Venkataramana, a noted Neurologist.  The call given by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to rope in medical students and interns was a welcome step, but before deploying…

Minister Somashekar promises Rs.1 lakh personal relief to families of COVID dead
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Minister Somashekar promises Rs.1 lakh personal relief to families of COVID dead

May 9, 2021

Bengaluru: Co-operation Minister S.T. Somashekar, who represents Yeshwanthpur Assembly segment in Bengaluru city, said that he will be donating Rs. 1 lakh as personal relief to the family of every person who has died of COVID in his Constituency. Speaking to presspersons after Adichunchanagiri Mutt Seer Sri Nirmalanandanatha Swamiji inaugurated the relief distribution programme at…

Food packets distributed to the poor and needy
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Food packets distributed to the poor and needy

May 9, 2021

Mysore/Mysuru: Ever since COVID Curfew was announced, Devaraja Market Traders Association, in a bid to ward off hunger of the poor and the needy, have been distributing food packets across the city. The members of Devaraja Market Traders Association, headed by Association President Devaraju distributed food packets to poor people near K.R. Hospital, Mysore Railway…

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