Mysuru: Helping Hands, under their Health Mission, donated Mechanical Ventilator Circuits and CPAP Circuits useful in treating sick newborns with respiratory problems, to Cheluvamba Hospital recently. The equipment was sponsored by Sohanlal Baghmar on occasion of his grandson Akhilesh Baghmar’s birthday. Speaking on this occasion, President of Helping Hands Mahaveer Khabiya said that one should…
Govt. Hospitals’ Contract Nurses seek better pay, stage protest
March 3, 2018Mysuru: Seeking better pay and job security, Nurses working on a contract basis at K.R. Hospital, Cheluvamba Hospital and PKTB Sanatorium, staged a protest in front of the DC’s office here on Thursday and Friday. It is learnt that the Nurses would continue their protest on Monday after seeking permission to stage protest in MMC&RI…
‘Helping Hands’ donates cradles to Cheluvamba Hospital
January 29, 2018Mysuru: Helping Hands under its Health Project, donated six cradles to K.R. Hospital Children’s ward (Cheluvamba ward) OBG Department. Lauding the efforts of Helping Hands, MMC&RI Chief Administrator Officer B.G. Indiramma said that these cradles would be useful to babies born to sick and ailing mothers who cannot keep the babies next to them. Secretary…
City Private Hospital services crippled
November 13, 2017Mysuru: The out-patient and casualty services were all crippled in the city as the private hospitals and nursing homes refused new admissions and were seen sending away the patients to government hospitals, here this morning as private doctors are on an agitation at Belagavi. As a result, there was more than usual rush seen at…
Infant deaths back to haunt Cheluvamba
September 23, 2017Mysuru: Infant mortality is back to haunt the State-run Cheluvamba Hospital as over 9 newborn babies have died since Sept. 1, in a span of 23 days. In the last 48 hours alone, three babies, all born prematurely, died within two hours after delivery. While inconsolable parents alleged that their babies died due to medical…
Woman dies soon after delivering baby: Relatives stage protest
July 7, 2017Mysuru: Accusing the doctors of negligence, family members and relatives of a woman who died a couple of hours after giving birth to a baby, staged a demonstration in front of Cheluvamba Hospital here this morning. Rajamani (38), a resident of Brindavan Extension in city and wife of Palaniswamy, a software company employee at Bengaluru,…
District Health Officer visits Cheluvamba Hospital, reviews dengue situation
June 23, 2017To send blood samples to Manipal for further tests Mysuru: Following instructions from District Minister Dr. H.C. Mahadevappa, District Health Officer (DHO) Dr. B. Basavaraj along with other health officials visited Cheluvamba Hospital yesterday and held discussions with doctors about fever cases besides interacting with patients suffering from fever. The DHO was accompanied with MMC&RI…
Death of new-born baby: Cheluvamba Hospital RMO denies charges
May 28, 2017Mysuru: Cheluvamba Hospital authorities have denied charges of negligence, made by the parents of a new-born child, which died within hours after it was born in the hospital on Tuesday. The parents of the child, who were from Nanjangud taluk, had staged a demonstration in the hospital premises, accusing the doctors of negligence. Speaking to…
A year after maternal deaths, Cheluvamba to get HDU to handle emergency cases
March 9, 2017By S. Pushpavathi More than a year after six maternal deaths at the Cheluvamba Hospital, a High Dependency Unit (HDU) to handle emergencies will be finally set up at the hospital and it is likely to begin functioning from April. The over a century-old hospital caters to the health needs of women from Mysuru and…
Cheluvamba Hospital Pourakarmikas stage protest for wages
February 10, 2017Claiming that they were not paid wages for the past 6 months, more than 60 contract pourakarmikas working at Cheluvamba Hospital, staged a demonstration against the outsourcing agency in front of the hospital premises this morning. The pourakarmikas alleged that their employer M/s Cauvery Enterprises, Hebbal had not paid wages to them for nearly 6…
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