MP Pratap Simha, KR MLA T. S. Srivatsa and DHO flag off the van adorned with huge mosquito model Mysore/Mysuru: Dengue Ratha, a van with boards on do’s and don’ts to create awareness on dengue fever in the district, was flagged off in city last evening. A joint initiative of National Health Mission (NHM), District…
Skill-based first responder training under National Health Mission
October 20, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: A three-day skill-based first responder training programme for KSRTC employees, Mysuru City Traffic and Civil Police and College students organised by the Regional Health and Family Welfare Training Centre at Metagalli, under National Health Mission, which began on Oct. 18, will conclude today. About 150 participants were being trained in a batch of 50…
Mega blood donation drive
September 16, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: Akhil Bharatiya Terapanth Yuvak Parishad with support from National Health Mission and Jeevadhara Blood Bank has organised a mega blood donation drive on Sept. 17 with an aim to hold 1,000 camps across the country and to break the previous record of collecting 1 lakh units of blood. Addressing a press meet at Patrakarthara…
Doctor at your Doorstep
September 14, 2022Government Health Scheme under National Health Mission Special 20-bed ward ready at District Hospital on KRS Road Call 104 to avail free medical help, vehicles to shift patients Mysore/Mysuru: In probably the biggest single free healthcare initiative after the COVID-19 pandemic by the District Health and Family Welfare Department, a Government scheme has been launched…
‘Follow Union Health Ministry guidelines for vaccination’
May 21, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: National Health Mission has directed Deputy Commissioner Rohini Sindhuri not to allow diversion of vaccine supplied by the Government of India and use it to vaccinate only healthcare and frontline workers. According to a press release, this order followed classification of bank, transport and railway employees as frontline wor-kers and vaccinating them with the…
Td vaccination drive for school students launched in the district
November 25, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: As a precautionary measure against Tetanus and Diphtheria infections, amid the outbreak of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Public Instruction, in association with the Health Department, National Health Mission (NHM) and Family Welfare Society, launched Td (Tetanus and diphtheria) vaccination drive this morning to vaccinate all students of First, Fifth and Tenth…
1.15 lakh students to get Tetanus and diphtheria vaccination tomorrow
November 24, 20201st, 5th and 10th std. students asked to be present in schools and follow COVID-19 norms Mysore/Mysuru: With the onset of winter season, the District Administration is geared up to vaccinate students against Tetanus and diphtheria (Td) on Nov. 25 and Nov. 27. More than 1.15 lakh school students of the district will be vaccinated…
More than 30,000 Health Workers strike work across State
September 24, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Days after Doctors attached to the Health and Family Welfare Department staged a silent protest and succeeded in making the Government sanction Rs. 125 crore for a hike in their salaries, Contractual Health Workers of National Health Mission (NHM), under the banner of Karnataka State Health and Medical Education Department Contractual and Outsourced Employees…
Contract Health Workers to go on indefinite stir from Sept.24
September 22, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: After Government doctors’ silent protest, now contract and outsourced workers belonging to Departments of Health, Medical Education and National Health Mission have decided to go on indefinite strike from Sept. 24. They have urged the State Government to fulfill their charter of demands which included equal work-equal pay, job security and insurance coverage. Addressing…
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