Tag: Dinesh Gundu Rao

QR code technology for medicine packets
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QR code technology for medicine packets

January 21, 2026

State Government will submit proposal to Centre: Health Minister Mysore/Mysuru: Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao has announced that the State Government will submit a proposal to the Centre to make QR codes mandatory on medicine packets, enabling visually impaired persons and others to access essential drug information independently. Speaking at a roundtable organised at JSS…

Fire safety norms: Relief soon for private hospitals
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Fire safety norms: Relief soon for private hospitals

January 20, 2026

Mysore/Mysuru: Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao has assured private hospitals that the State Government will take steps to ease difficulties faced in implementing fire safety norms in older hospital buildings. He also announced that reimbursement rates under the State Health Assurance Scheme (SAST) will be revised in line with the Health Benefit Package (HBP) 2022…

Nodal Officers to curb female foeticide in State: Minister
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Nodal Officers to curb female foeticide in State: Minister

December 18, 2025

Belagavi: Accepting that acts of female foeticide has not stopped in Karnataka, Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao said the State Government was taking strict measures to prevent it. He said the Government was appointing separate Nodal Officers in all districts and tightening measures to prevent foeticide, which he called a “social evil.” He also assured…

‘Swastha Mysuru’ to combat lifestyle diseases
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‘Swastha Mysuru’ to combat lifestyle diseases

December 5, 2025

Collective action needed for a healthy Mysuru, says Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao Mysore/Mysuru: Health and Family Welfare Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao inaugurated ‘Swastha Mysuru’, a joint initiative of the H.H. Sri Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar Foundation and Arogya World India Trust, at the Wadiyar Centre for Architecture on Krishnaraja Boulevard here this morning. Speaking on the…

Female foeticide: Health Minister for stricter enforcement of law
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Female foeticide: Health Minister for stricter enforcement of law

December 3, 2025

Mysore/Mysuru: Health and Family Welfare Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao has instructed the officers, to lay more emphasis on the stricter enactment of laws, pertaining to the prevention of female foeticide and to maintain sex ratio and to organise special awareness programmes. Minister Rao came out with several observations and instructions, during the progress review meeting…

‘Change your lifestyle, return to ancestral food habits’
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‘Change your lifestyle, return to ancestral food habits’

July 16, 2025

Ministers Dr. Sharanprakash R. Patil and Dinesh Gundu Rao share expert findings to check new-found fears over increasing heart attack cases Bengaluru: The desi food habits of yore followed by our ancestors is the perfect therapy for the diseases stemming from new lifestyle, with the State Government propagating the same in the wake of new-found…

Nursing College, Mortuary proposed at District Hospital
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Nursing College, Mortuary proposed at District Hospital

May 28, 2025

Dinesh Gundu Rao responds positively to proposals by officials Mysuru: The health facilities in the district is most likely to get a boost with the Health and Family Welfare Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao assuring to establish a Government Nursing College and Mortuary at the premises of District Hospital on KRS Road  in Metagalli here. Minister Rao…

Permit EVs only for public transport: Minister Gundu Rao
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Permit EVs only for public transport: Minister Gundu Rao

February 10, 2025

Bengaluru: Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dinesh Gundu Rao has written to Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy to permit electric vehicles (EVs) only for public transport system in Bengaluru. The move comes after the pollution levels in Bengaluru reached similar levels to some of the major cities in North India. The Minister’s letter emphasised, “It…

9-day Yoga Dasara inaugurated
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9-day Yoga Dasara inaugurated

October 5, 2024

Mysuru: Health and Family Welfare Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao said that it was Swami Vivekananda who introduced the richness  of Yoga, which has Indian roots, to the world. He was speaking after inaugurating the 9-day Yoga Dasara organised by Yoga Dasara Sub-committee at the MMC&RI Platinum Jubilee Hall in J.K. Grounds here yesterday. Highlighting that…

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