T. Narasipur: Co-operation and Mysuru District-in-Charge Minister S.T. Somashekar has said that no Government Hospital in the district must face shortage of medicines to treat COVID positive patients in the wake of extension of lockdown till June 7. He was speaking after visiting various Primary Health Centres in T. Narasipur Assembly Constituency yesterday. He wanted…
Udupi: GAIL (India) Limited, in order to increase the availability of medical-grade oxygen, will build an oxygen generation plant at Taluk Government Hospital in Kundapura and nine other places across the country. According to Taluk Government Hospital Covid-19 Nodal Officer Dr. Nagesh Kundapura, the work on the construction of Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) medical oxygen…
Bengaluru: The three-member Committee appointed by the Karnataka High Court to probe the Chamarajanagar District Hospital tragedy where 24 persons died on the intervening night of May 2 and 3, has given a clean chit to Mysuru Deputy Commissioner (DC) Rohini Sindhuri and has castigated Chamarajanagar DC Dr. M.R. Ravi and said that the latter…
Eight patients can be accommodated at a time up to two-four hours Bengaluru: Taking a leaf out of Chennai NGO ‘Oxygen on Wheels’ playbook, Karnataka yesterday launched its own version — OxyBus service — to help COVID patients breathe during emergencies. Chief Minister B. S. Yediyurappa in his tweet said that each makeshift OxyBus supports…
1,833 km — from Jamshedpur to State Capital — traversed in a record time of 29 hours through green corridor Bengaluru: The first ‘Oxygen Express’ to Karnataka, with six cryogenic containers carrying Liquid Medical Oxygen arrived at Inland Container Depot, Whitefield in Bengaluru this morning at 9.35. The train had started from Tatanagar in Jamshedpur,…
Mysore/Mysuru: District In-charge Minister S.T. Somashekar and MP Pratap Simha visited Padaki Air Products located at Hebbal Industrial area in city this morning and took stock of the situation relating to oxygen supply and availability in the district. Padaki Air Products is one of the leading supplier of industrial and medical oxygen in city, supplying…
Mysore/Mysuru: Under the Disaster Management Act 2005, Deputy Commissioner Rohini Sindhuri, who is also the District Magistrate, has appointed B. Manjunath, Deputy Director of Libraries at Mysuru, as the Nodal Officer for oxygen supplies in the district with immediate effect. Manjunath has been entrusted with the task of ascertaining the availability of sufficient quantity of…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court (SC) has constituted a 12-member National Task Force to streamline and ensure the “effective and transparent” allocation of liquid medical oxygen on a “scientific, rational and equitable basis” to States and Union Territories fighting COVID-19. The Apex Court had expressed its dissatisfaction at the Centre’s earlier “oxygen-for-bed” formula. This “rough-and-ready”…
IP cameras to be installed at refilling plants to monitor unauthorised refilling, transportation: Pratap Simha Absence of a robust system in Karnataka for oxygen distribution to districts exposed Mysore/Mysuru: Seeking to tighten the monitoring mechanism at oxygen refilling plants in Mysuru city, Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha has asked authorities to install IP cameras…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday turned down the Centre’s plea challenging the Karnataka High Court order asking it to increase the liquid medical oxygen allocation for the State to 1,200 MT per day from the present 965 MT amid the second wave of Covid-19. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, on behalf of the Centre,…
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