Bengaluru: Given the rising dengue cases in the State, the Health Department on Thursday issued guidelines to control the spread of the virus. According to the guidelines issued by Harsh Gupta, Principal Secretary of the Health and Family Welfare Department, Dengue war rooms will be set up in all district centres. As per the guidelines,…
Larvae survey, awareness on dengue prevention in Mysuru district
July 4, 2024Mysuru/Bengaluru: In a bid to prevent and control the spread of dengue in the district, the Health Department has taken up larvae survey and awareness on dengue among the public. According to Health Education Officer Munindramma, awareness on dengue is being created by distributing handbills containing information on dengue prevention to the public. She further…
Health Department staff involved in female foeticide at Pandavapura
May 7, 2024Ambulance driver, his wife, mother-in-law, nurse arrested Pandavapura: The Health Department staff, who are supposed to protect the health of the patients, have involved themselves in killing female foetuses at the Department quarters, located right behind the Taluk Health Officer’s (THO) office in Pandavapura. The Police have arrested four employees of the Department in this…
Surveillance on to control Dengue
June 14, 2022Health Department launches ‘100 days, 100 houses – Aedes aegypti-free’ campaign Mysore/Mysuru: While rains bring a pleasant break from hot days, they also can lead to an outbreak of dengue. Amidst another spike in COVID-19 cases, there is a gradual fear spreading among the public about dengue. The Health Department has asked the people to…
Health Department honours staff involved in prevention and eradication of Malaria
June 9, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: The retired and present employees of Health Department, who have worked during the past 30 years towards the prevention and eradication of the once dreaded Malaria disease, were felicitated by the Department at a function held on Wednesday. The programme to felicitate 10 past and present personnel of the Health Department, organised by the…
Kidnap, extortion in the guise of Health officials
January 7, 2022Court sentences three persons including a journalist to seven years jail K.R. Pet: The Srirangapatna’s 3rd Additional District and Sessions Court has sentenced three persons including a journalist to seven years imprisonment besides imposing Rs. 10,000 each as fine after they were found guilty of kidnapping a doctor after posing as Health Department officials. The…
Animal horn product unit raided, sealed
March 18, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: There’s no doubt how beautiful bracelets, necklaces, rings, earrings and furniture made of buffalo and cow horns are as it is not at all common for jewellery makers to use animal horns as their products. But if the animal horn products are made in a public place at the time of bird flu and…
Contract workers of Health Department to take out rally in city tomorrow
October 24, 2018Mysuru: Demanding equal pay for equal work and job security, contract workers of the Health Department will take out a rally in city tomorrow (Oct.25). Announcing this at a press meet here yesterday, Karnataka State Health Department Contract Workers Federation Convenor Srivatsa said that the rally will commence from Kote Anjaneyaswamy Temple at the Palace…
Outbreak of vector-borne diseases: Health Department to launch awareness programmes
June 1, 2018Mysuru: The District Health Department is making all out efforts to sensitise the people on the measures to be taken for preventing the outbreak of vector-borne diseases such as Chikungunya and Dengue. Addressing an awareness programme at Pathrakartara Bhavan here on Tuesday, District-Vector Borne Diseases Control Officer Dr. S. Chidambara said that intermittent rainfall in…
Health Dept. permission must for private residential schools
March 11, 2017Social Welfare Minister Anjaneya has said that the Health Department permission is mandatory for setting up private residential schools in the State. Speaking to press persons here yesterday, Anjaneya said that residential schools must install CCTV cameras in their premises and the new set of rules will come into force from the coming academic year….
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