Mysore/Mysuru: The District Administration and the Department of Health and Family Welfare, in a bid to prevent COVID-19 (Coronavirus) from spreading and also to control the increasing positive cases and related deaths, are continuing the Rapid Antigen Tests at various places in city. Tests are being conducted at CITB Choultry at Hebbal, Town Hall, Kurubarahalli…
Our selfish Covid VIPs !
August 14, 2020No SOS for we the people By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD It is a very well-known fact that in our country our leaders have two different sets of rules. One set is exclusively for themselves and their families and the other is for all the people who place them on their pedestals of power…
Treating COVID patients under Ayushman Bharat-Arogya Karnataka Scheme
August 13, 2020MLA urges DC to minimise inconvenience to patients Tanveer Sait appeals DC Abhiram Sankar to give powers to Zonal Health Officers at PHCs to sign recommendation letters DHO complains about private hospitals forcing patients to sign bonds Mysore/Mysuru: COVID-19 infected patients who want to avail treatment in private hospitals under Ayushman Bharat-Arogya Karnataka Scheme have…
Now, 7-day home quarantine after being discharged
August 13, 2020Bengaluru: Following a Supreme Court direction, the State has made changes in the discharge criteria for COVID patients. Patients now have to undergo seven days of home isolation with self-monitoring after discharge, while it was 14 days earlier. The clause for 14-day home quarantine for severely ill patients after discharge has been removed. COVID patients…
Trauma Centre on KRS Road as additional COVID Hospital
August 12, 2020Modern facility has 246 beds and 46 ventilators; SARI and ILI patients to be admitted there: DC Mysore/Mysuru: The new and ultra-modern Mysuru Trauma Care Centre in PKTB premises on KRS Road will be used as another COVID-19 Hospital in the wake of rising Coronavirus cases, said Deputy Commissioner Abhiram G. Sankar here this morning. …
Hold exclusive plasma donation camp, Tanveer Sait urges DC
August 12, 2020DC asks hospitals, healthcare staff not to reuse PPE kits and discard them as per protocol Mysore/Mysuru: The District Administration should hold an exclusive blood (plasma) donation camp to encourage COVID-recovered patients to donate their plasma to help other Coronavirus patients to recover, opined Narasimharaja MLA Tanveer Sait. Meeting Deputy Commissioner Abhiram G. Sankar at…
No regular trains till Sept. 30
August 12, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Barring the operation of Special trains, the Railways has extend the ban on the running of regular trains till Sept. 30 in the wake of rapid spread of COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier, the Railways had said that the ban will be in force till Aug.12. But with no signs of the pandemic abating and also…
Now Covid is the great leveller
August 11, 2020By T.J.S. George Unity of the unexpected kind is in the air. Karnataka’s Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa caught Covid and went into quarantine, complete with hospital shirt. Soon after the news was out, Opposition Leader Siddharamaiah also caught Covid and went into hospital. Declaring solidarity with both of them, Amit Shah in Delhi got the…
City gets one more COVID Testing Lab
August 10, 2020DC opens Lab set up by CSIR-CFTRI at Govt. Ayurveda Hi-tech Panchakarma Hospital on KRS Road Mysore/Mysuru: The new CSIR-CFTRI COVID Testing Laboratory, which has been set up at the Government Ayurveda Hi-tech Panchakarma Hospital at Brindavan Extension on KRS Road was inaugurated by Deputy Commissioner (DC) Abhiram G. Sankar this morning. Speaking after inaugurating…
Sr. Advocate Sajan Poovayya donates Rs. 1 crore to help Jr. Advocates
August 10, 2020Bengaluru: Senior Advocate M. Sajan Poovayya and his wife advocate Sanjanthi Poovayya have donated Rs. 1 crore for an initiative to “assist a junior” advocate financially in these days of no income to them due to Coronavirus crisis. While Sajan Poovayya is a Supreme Court Advocate, his wife in an Advocate in the Karnataka High…
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