District Health Officer outlines strategy if COVID positive cases increase beyond 100 Mysore/Mysuru: The War Rooms, helplines, system of bed availability at the touch of a button, extra ICU/ HDU beds at hospitals, computer-controlled data flow, home isolation teams and COVID Care Centres that existed during the killer second wave would be revived in case…
Vaccine costing Rs. 3,000 will now be administered for free at PHCs on every Thursdays Mysore/Mysuru: Following an initiative of Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the Karnataka Government, for the first time, launched a free Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) drive across the State today. In Mysuru, the drive began at the renovated Seth…
Schools can’t insist on test report: DDPI Intensive drive on to vaccinate teachers ahead of reopening Mysore/Mysuru: Preparations are in full swing for vaccination and RT-PCR testing of teachers in city in view of re-opening of schools from Aug. 23. Offline classes will be held for 9th and 10th standard students after a gap of…
Mysore/Mysuru: A massive survey has begun today to identify the spread of Tuberculosis (TB) that has crept in as all eyes were on COVID. Doctors have been witnessing a rise in TB cases and predominantly COVID-recovered people are being diagnosed with TB. Following this, the Health Department has started a survey. “We are launching a…
H.D. Kote: District Health Officer (DHO) Dr. K.H. Prasad visited Bavali check-post on Karnataka-Kerala Border and took stock of the situation, in the wake of incidents of Zika cases in the neighbouring State. Interacting with the medical staff deployed at the check-post yesterday, he told them since the bus service between the two States has…
Mysore/Mysuru: After vehement denials by the District Administration and the District Health Officer (DHO) about the presence of the Delta Plus variant of COVID-19 in Mysuru, it has now come to light that in fact Mysuru is the first district in Karnataka that has reported the deadly variant. Health Minister Dr. K. Sudhakar himself revealed…
Mysore/Mysuru: Despite more than 5,000 children — as per conservative estimates — in the age group of 0 to 10 being hit by COVID-19 since the first wave, the Mysuru District Health Officer (DHO) has clarified that the impact of the third wave will not be of that severity as is being projected. Citing statistics,…
Dr. K.H. Prasad is new DHO Mysore/Mysuru: Days after two IAS officers and two IPS officers were transferred from the city, the State Government on Thursday has transferred District Health Officer (DHO) Dr. T. Amarnath, amidst rising COVID cases. Dr. Amarnath’s transfer comes days after IAS officers Rohini Sindhuri (Deputy Commissioner) and Shilpa Nag (MCC Commissioner)…
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