Lack of preparedness, severe staff crunch at Panchayat level worsen crisis Chamarajanagar: The once Green Zone of Chamarajanagar that had gained national accolades even from Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan for maintaining a virus-free condition is now becoming a Red Zone with over 130 villages under the tight grip of COVID-19. Of the 509…
Chamarajanagar tragedy: Records tampered with, suspects HC Panel
May 15, 2021Bengaluru: The three-member Committee of Karnataka State Legal Services Authority, appointed by the Karnataka High Court to probe the Chamarajanagar District Hospital tragedy, in its report submitted to the High Court has pointed out incidents of possible tampering with the records. A detailed probe alone can unearth the acts of omissions and commissions of the…
No comments, says Chamarajanagar DC
May 15, 2021Chamarajanagar: Deputy Commissioner of Chamarajanagar District Dr. M.R. Ravi has refused to react to the observations made by the High Court-constituted three-member Committee to probe into the deaths of 24 persons due to oxygen shortage at Chamarajanagar District Hospital where lapses, discrepancies and mismanagement have been brought to fore. When reporters wanted his reaction yesterday,…
Chamarajanagar tragedy due to oxygen shortage: HC Panel
May 13, 2021Toll could be more than 24, says Committee in its report to Karnataka High Court Slackness, callousness and mismanagement of oxygen supplies led to loss of precious lives Bengaluru: The three-member Committee of Karnataka State Legal Services Authority appointed by the Karnataka High Court (HC) to probe the Chamarajanagar District Hospital tragedy stated in its…
100 staff of MM Hills temple to serve as volunteers at Covid Hospital
May 11, 2021Chamarajanagar: Around 100 employees of Male Mahadeshwara Hills (MM Hills) temple have turned into volunteers, to serve the District Covid Hospital in Chamarajanagar. Responding to an appeal by the District Administration, for volunteers to tackle the Covid pandemic, the employees serving in various posts, under Male Mahadeshwara Swamy Temple Development Authority, have come forward to…
Conduct survey to detect individuals with COVID-like symptoms: Chamarajanagar DC
May 10, 2021Chamarajanagar: Chamarajanagar Deputy Commissioner (DC) Dr. M.R. Ravi has instructed the team comprising Health Department staff, ASHA and Anganwadi workers to conduct survey and trace all symptomatic individuals with cough, cold, sore throat and fever in rural areas of the district. Presiding over a meeting at DC Office Auditorium here on Saturday with Health Department…
Stave off imminent oxygen war: GTD
May 8, 2021‘State Government not yet woken up to desperate need for rationing oxygen’ Mysore/Mysuru: Hours after Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha objected to the visit of Mandya District Minister K.C. Narayanagowda and Chamarajanagar District Minister S. Suresh Kumar along with Police escort to carry oxygen cylinders from Mysuru’s refilling plants, Chamundeshwari MLA and former Minister G.T. Devegowda…
Chamarajanagar-like incidents averted in Bengaluru
May 7, 2021Bengaluru: Two senior BJP leaders — Deputy Chief Minister Dr. C.N. Ashwathnarayan and Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) Chairman S.R. Vishwanath—, have averted Chamarajanagar-like incidents in Bengaluru on Wednesday night and on Thursday, after two Hospitals in their Constituencies, were about to go out of oxygen supply. They immediately swung into action, arranged for oxygen cylinders…
Chamarajanagar tragedy was waiting to happen
May 6, 2021On Apr. 23, 30 oxygen cylinders were rushed from Kollegal to save patients at the nick of time Kollegal: Ten days before the Chamarajanagar tragedy occurred where 24 COVID-19 patients died at the District Hospital owing to lack of oxygen, the District was severely facing oxygen shortage and all appeals by doctors for oxygen replenishment…
Police teams raid to confiscate records
May 6, 2021Chamarajanagar: Following the Karnataka High Court order to the State Government to immediately seize all the relevant records in the Offices of the Deputy Commissioners of Chamarajanagar and Mysuru districts, and the Chamarajanagar District Hospital on oxygen supply and correspondences among the authorities in the two districts for the relevant period, a team of Police…
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