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
January 20, 2026Mysore/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
December 18, 2025Belagavi: 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
December 5, 2025Collective 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
December 3, 2025Mysore/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’
July 16, 2025Ministers 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…
Heart attack phobia: Most Hassan victims had cardiac ailments: Minister
July 11, 2025Expert Committee submits report on multiple heart attack deaths in Hassan Bengaluru: Health and Family Welfare Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao has allayed fears over heart attack fears that have heightened, especially after a spree of deaths caused due to heart attack was reported in Hassan and other districts in the State recently. Following a report…
Nursing College, Mortuary proposed at District Hospital
May 28, 2025Dinesh 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
February 10, 2025Bengaluru: 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
October 5, 2024Mysuru: 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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