Bengaluru: An initiative ‘O2ForIndia’ to provide Oxygen Concentrators free of cost through Ola app for home isolated COVID patients, partnering Ola Foundation and GiveIndia Foundation, was launched here yesterday. Speaking after launching this initiative, Deputy Chief Minister and State COVID Ministerial Task Force Head, Dr. C.N. Ashwathmarayan said to start with, this initiative was being implemented…
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…
Mysore/Mysuru: Did you know that the Government takes care of the cost of treatment for COVID? This can be done only if the patient is registered under the Suvarna Aarogya Suraksha Trust (SAST). Officials said families are advised to alert the doctors in the initial days itself to convert cases to SAST. For those who…
Bengaluru: Days after the postponement of second PU exams due to the spread of the deadly COVID-19 contagion, the Government on Wednesday postponed the Common Entrance Test (CET-2021) for admission to Engineering, Pharmaceutical, Architecture, Agriculture and other professional courses (barring Medical and Dental courses) in Karnataka. CET will now be held from Aug.28 to 30. …
Bengaluru: One lakh vaccines are being kept reserved daily for admi-nistering second dose. Online registration for second dose will be introduced to avoid queuing up near the vaccine centres, said Deputy Chief Minister and State COVID Ministerial Task Force Chairman Dr. C.N. Ashwathnarayan. Replying to a query after the launch of O2forIndia initiative, he said…
Mysore/Mysuru: The District Administration has opened 11 Covid Mitra Centres in Chamundeshwari Assembly Constituency in the wake of spurt in Corona positive cases. These Centres will function from 10 am to 6 pm daily. MLA G.T. Devegowda, who distributed medicine kits yesterday, discussed Covid situation with Tahsildhar K.R. Rakshith, Taluk Health Officer and Taluk Panchayat…
Mysore/Mysuru: Agrawal Samaj, Mysuru, started ‘Agrawal Hands’ for the needy a few years ago and has been responding to their needs. In the present COVID crisis, they first responded to the need for firewood at graveyards for timely cremation and are now supplying the wood regularly. Responding to the medicine requirement at different COVID Centres…
Mysore/Mysuru: Contributing his mite for mitigating COVID crisis, Congress leader K. Harish Gowda donated Oxygen Concentrator and BiPAP machines to Deputy Commissioner Rohini Sindhuri at her office on Tuesday. Later speaking to press persons Harish Gowda said that he has donated an Oxygen Concentrator, 4 Oxygen BiPAPs and 1,000 face masks to the DC, after…
According to Indian Nursing Council, of the 20 lakh registered nurses in India, 18 lakh are from Kerala Kochi: The Covid-19 pandemic has not just rattled lives of millions but has put Indian healthcare machinery under tremendous pressure. From doctors to nurses to support staff, thousands of healthcare professionals have fallen to this deadly virus…
Bengaluru: Facing a flood of COVID-19 false negative test reports, the Karnataka Government has issued circular directing hospitals to adopt a syndromic approach to admit COVID-19 patients. Syndromic management involves clinical decision making based on a patient’s symptoms and signs being manifested. Medical experts here along with their pathology counterparts use an algorithm designed flow-chart…
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