New Delhi: In Unlock 4.0, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has issued new guidelines for opening of more activities in areas outside the containment zones, which will come into effect from Sept 1. As per new guidelines, the power of declaring lockdown by States / Union Territories has been withdrawn. Salient features of Unlock…
Mysore/Mysuru: The State Health Department has settled the bills of 9,136 patients and released Rs. 22.14 crore to private hospitals for providing treatment to COVID-19 patients. Medical Education Minister Dr. K. Sudhakar said that as on Aug.28, various private hospitals has treated 42,291 patients referred by the Government and hospitals have billed Rs. 169.55 crore…
Bengaluru: Coming to the aid of Pourakarmikas who are part of the battle against the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, Deputy Chief Minister Govind Karjol said that all Safai Karmacharis (Pourakarmikas), who die while engaged in COVID-19 duty, will get a compensation of Rs. 30 lakh each and one of the family members of the deceased will…
Mysore/Mysuru: Amidst COVID-19, a mega e-adalat will be held across the State on Sept. 19, according to Justice Arvind Kumar, Executive Chairman, Karnataka State Legal Services Authority. Talking to reporters through video conference on Friday, he said that Karnataka is the first State to do it at a time when the country was gripped by…
Mysuru District Hospital begins to issue COVID Death Certificates Mysore/Mysuru: The much-awaited clinical trial of COVID-19 vaccine – Covishield – developed by the University of Oxford began at JSS Hospital in city this morning. Pune-based Serum Institute of India partnered with AstraZeneca to manufacture the COVID-19 vaccine candidate. The volunteers received their first doses intramuscularly…
Mysore/Mysuru: The process of issuing automated and printed death certificates for people who die of Coronavirus infection at the designated COVID-19 Hospital — District Hospital on KRS Road — has begun since yesterday and the relatives of the deceased can approach the Hospital for the death certificates. Till now the certificates were being issued manually…
Mysore/Mysuru: District in-Charge Minister S.T. Somashekar handed over a cheque for Rs. 50 lakh to the family of Nanjangud Taluk Health Officer (THO) Dr. S.R. Nagendra, who had committed suicide on Aug. 20 allegedly due to work pressure. The Minister, accompanied by MLA S.A. Ramdas, Deputy Commissioner Abhiram G. Sankar (now transferred), MCC Commissioner Gurudatta…
Mysore/Mysuru: COVID-19 pandemic has thrown up unseen challenges on the Health Sciences based Higher Education programmes. The challenges came up both in the form of curriculum practice, teaching-learning, and evaluation. The health science-based education such as Medicine/ Dentistry/ Pharmacy/Allied Health Sciences has always been a high comprehension programme with practical and clinical experiential training. During…
New Delhi: Even as all non-BJP ruled States and several activist groups have been urging the Union Government to postpone Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) and National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) in view of COVID-19 crisis, the Centre asserted that the exam will take place as scheduled in September. The JEE (Main) for admission to Indian Institutes…
Mysore/Mysuru: Following reports in media that pubs and bars are likely to open next month (Sept. 1) in Karnataka, Principal Secretary of Revenue Department (Disaster Management) and Member-Secretary of State Executive Committee, Anjum Parvez has clarified that all social clubs have been restricted from serving liquor. They can only open doors for sports activities and…
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