Mysuru: K.R. Hospital Authorities took an initiative yesterday to create water space at the root of trees grown in the hospital premises. Following complaints from environmental groups that the tree roots were entirely covered by cement for hospital visitors to sit, the Hospital Authorities, led by Superintendent Srinivas pulled up the contractors and directed them…

Mysuru:  Strongly condemning the introduction of user fee charges at the more than century-old K.R. Hospital in the heart of the city, which is most visited by poor patients for their health needs, BJP MLAs and Corporators, accompanied by several patients, staged a demonstration in the hospital premises here this morning. City BJP MLAs S.A….

Mysuru: User fees for all treatments imposed on patients at K.R. Hospital by the State Government is just to bring a bad name to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP Government at the Centre as it had implemented the ‘Ayushman Bharat’ for the welfare of the poor, said MLA S.A. Ramdas. He was addressing…

Mysuru:  With user fee for all the treatments being imposed on patients at K.R. Hospital from Mar.1, the patients are obviously shocked at the sudden financial burden imposed by the Government. Medical professionals and others too have voiced their reactions on the order of the Government. When Star of Mysore contacted District in-Charge Minister G.T….

Outpatients have to shell out user charges for all treatments, tests Rule implemented from Mar. 1 following Government directive Mysuru:  The century-old K.R. Hospital in the heart of the city, which has been offering free services for poor people since the rule of erstwhile Wadiyars, has started charging user fee for all the treatments offered…

Mysuru: A man, aged about 60 years, who was found lying sick near Ramaswamy Circle on Jan. 17 and admitted to K.R. Hospital has breathed his last on Feb. 8 at the hospital. The man, who admitted to the hospital in the name of Srinivas, is 5.5 ft. tall and oily red complexioned. Those having any…

Mysuru:  In separate cases, two elderly persons, who were found lying sick in V.V. Puram and Nazarbad Police limits and admitted to K.R. Hospital, have breathed their last in the hospital. In the first case, an elderly man aged about 60 years, who was found lying sick near Vani Vilas Water Works on Dec.22 at…

Mysuru: Mandya District In-charge Minister C.S. Puttaraju visited K.R. Hospital here this morning and enquired about the condition of the 9-year-old girl Sinchana, a 4th standard student of Sanghapura Government School in Pandavapura taluk who was injured when a pressure cooker reportedly burst at the school kitchen yesterday while the midday meal was getting readied….