Water-tight system developed to prevent hoarding, unscrupulous use and pilferage Mysore/Mysuru: A COVID patient-friendly and a fool-proof system has been developed by the State Government to prevent hoarding, black-marketing and pilferage of Remdesivir drug. The online system will ensure equitable distribution of the drug among patients and also will bring in a systemic change in…
Minister Somashekar reviews COVID-19 situation Mysore/Mysuru: Co-operation and District in-Charge Minister S.T. Somashekar has directed Officers to personally visit all 34 Private Hospitals which are supposed to give 50 percent of beds to the Government and give an accurate report on the actual availability of beds. Reviewing COVID-19 situation at a meeting held at Zilla…
20 metric tonnes of oxygen arrives in Mysuru Will be used only for emergencies: Pratap Simha Mysore/Mysuru: In a major relief to all those COVID patients in Mysuru requiring oxygen to overcome their breathing difficulties, a container carrying 20 metric tonnes of life-saving oxygen arrived in Mysuru this morning. The container carried oxygen from New…
Bengaluru: To reduce the increasing demand of oxygen, ventilators will be used instead of High Flow Nasal Oxygen (HFNO), said Health and Medical Education Minister Dr. K. Sudhakar. He was speaking to media after chairing a meeting with DHOs, District Surgeons, Deans and Director of Medical Colleges and Super Speciality Hospitals in all districts via…
Mysore/Mysuru: To break the chain of COVID-19 transmission, a 14-day stricter lockdown — perhaps the harshest after the last year’s nationwide lockdown — came into effect in Karnataka from 6 am today. The tough restrictions will remain in force till 6 am on May 24. Notably, the State was already under ‘Corona Curfew’ since Apr….
Mysore/Mysuru: Like in the first wave of COVID-19, the Kodagu District Administration has resumed stamping the hands of all those who are entering the district from various check-posts with indelible ink. This comes in the wake of Kodagu — that lacks even medium-scale medical infrastructure — witnessing on an average of more than 600 COVID-positive…
Allowing a third wave by lowering our guard is fraught with grave consequences, warn experts New Delhi: As India battles the second wave of the COVID-19, some experts have already raised the possibility of a third wave of the pandemic. Several countries have already witnessed the fourth wave of COVID. But as India struggles to…
‘Golden Star’ Ganesh appeals all Policemen to get vaccinated on priority Mysore/Mysuru: When everyone in the country has been asked to remain indoors during lockdown and is receiving all the knowledge in the world on how to deal with social isolation, it’s mostly the Policemen that one sees on the roads, maintaining law and order…
But can one ramp up ICU beds from 10,000 to 10,00,000 in 10 months? By Vishwaprasad Alva Seventy-four years since independence and where are we in healthcare coverage? Not many of us know that in the last 7 decades the nation has built less than 20,000 ICU beds in the whole country. In March 2020,…
No area-to-area vehicle movement; only walking Mysore/Mysuru: The first lot to leave Mysuru ahead of tomorrow’s lockdown that will begin at 6 am till 6 am on May 24 was migrant workers from Bihar. More than 300 of them, accompanied by families and mask-wearing toddlers, left for Danapur in Bihar in a one-way ‘Festival Special…
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