Mysore/Mysuru: A 24-year-old youth, said to be depressed in life, committed suicide by consuming poison at Medar Block in city. The deceased youth is Raghu alias Avi, son of Hanuma. He was working at a plywood shop in city. Raghu, who had consumed poison three days ago, was admitted in K.R. Hospital where he breathed…
Mysore/Mysuru: In yet another health care initiative, Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha launched five new ambulances for Mysuru district near the Deputy Commissioner’s Office here on Thursday. The ambulances, totally costing Rs.1.42 crore, was funded by Simha out of his MP Local Area Development Fund. While three of the ambulances were fitted with BLS (Basic Life…
K.R. Hospital Ophthalmology wing performs 40 cataract surgeries daily; over 5,000 annually State-of-the-art equipment worth Rs. 2.6 crore imported from Switzerland, Finland, Germany Mysore/Mysuru: At a time when many private eye hospitals are offering best services to patients with vision problems in Mysuru, the Ophthalmology Department at State-run K.R. Hospital is also competing with them…
Over 3,000 persons seeking medical care throng various counters Mysore/Mysuru: Even as the Mysuru Medical College and Research Institute (MMC&RI) has drawn up plans to bring all outpatient department (OPD) services under one roof by establishing a new facility to decongest K.R. Hospital, hundreds of patients stand in separate queues to avail treatments daily. Their…
Mysore/Mysuru: The city’s biggest and oldest Hospital, K.R. Hospital, which is a teaching hospital attached to MMC&RI, is facing a severe shortage of Nursing staff, even as the MMC&RI is gearing up for its centenary celebrations. K.R. Hospital, popularly known as ‘Doddaspatre’ among the rural masses, is a 1,050-bedded hospital and at any point of…
Skin Bank proposal for K.R. Hospital in cold storage due to less demand Mysore/Mysuru: There has been a significant fall in the number of burn incidents or fire accidents, thanks to the shift from kerosene stoves to modern LPG stoves. The old pump stoves and kerosene lamps (buddi deepa) are rarely used now with the…
Mysore/Mysuru: An unidentified man, who was found lying sick at Suburban Bus Stand and admitted to K.R. Hospital, has breathed his last at the hospital on May 16. The deceased is aged between 70 and 75 years, 5.5. ft. tall and has a mole on his right hand. The kith and kin of the deceased,…
Mysore/Mysuru: In separate cases, two bikes and one scooter have been stolen in city. In the first case, N. Mahadevaswamy, a resident of Hand Post in H.D. Kote, had come to see his father who is undergoing treatment at K.R. Hospital on May 5. Before entering into the hospital, Mahadevaswamy had parked his Hero Honda…
Mysore/Mysuru: A 60-year-old man, who was found lying sick near Muslim Co-op Bank at old RMC Circle on Apr. 16 and admitted to K.R. Hospital, has breathed his last at the hospital on Apr. 22 night. The deceased has been identified as Edwin Paul and no other details are known. He has the initials ‘ST’…
By S.T. Ravikumar Mysore/Mysuru: City K.R. Hospital’s Radio-Diagnosis unit, which plays a very crucial role in detection and diagnosis of diseases, is in need of an urgent upgradation with all necessary infrastructure to meet the growing demands. The unit has the task of issuing reports of patients of all Hospitals coming under MMC&RI, namely —…
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