NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court said on Tuesday that once signage or posters are pasted outside the homes of Covid-19 patients, the people affected are treated as “untouchables”, reflecting a different “ground reality”. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) said however that its guidelines do not contain any instructions or guidance regarding affixing … Read more
BANKURA (WB): Ahead of the Assembly elections in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday announced schemes for redressing grievances of people at the block level and providing motorbikes to youths to help them run small businesses. Banerjee, while speaking at a public distribution programme at Khatra in Bankura district, also claimed that the … Read more
JAIPUR (Rajasthan): Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday said that he has issued directions to ban the sale of firecrackers and restrict their use to protect COVID-19 patients and the public from their ill-effects. “In order to protect the health of COVID-19 infected patients and general public due to poisonous smoke emanating from firecrackers, … Read more
Mumbai: The second sero-survey of SARS- CoV2 in Mumbai has found that only 27 per cent health workers have developed antibodies despite being in constant contact with COVID-19 patients, the city civic body said on Friday. According to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), in the first and as well as in the second round of … Read more
The hospital had a 13- tonne oxygen supply tank but it could not cope with the huge pressure because of the spike in demand. It developed technical glitches. (Representational image: IE) Covid-19 cases in Pune: Oxygen-starved Pune hospitals, especially the smaller hospitals and rural hospitals, are facing a huge challenge in dealing with the deluge … Read more
A nation-wide survey conducted by IQVIA assessing the impact on patient care has shown a nearly 80% drop-in surgeries accompanied by a 70% delay in operations owing to COVID- 19. By Dr. Sandeep Arora COVID-19 has evolved into the world’s most significant healthcare and economic crisis witnessed in the last century. The crisis that it … Read more
President Donald Trump on Sunday announced emergency authorisation to treat COVID-19 patients with convalescent plasma a move he called ‘a breakthrough,’ one of his top health officials called ‘promising’ and other health experts said needs more study before it’s celebrated. The announcement came after White House officials complained there were politically motivated delays by the … Read more
NEW DELHI: The single-day increase of coronavirus cases crossed the 50,000-mark for the first time on Thursday, pushing India’s COVID-19 caseload to 15,83,792, while the recoveries surpassed 10 lakh, according to the Union Health Ministry. The country registered a record increase of 52,123 infections in 24 hours while the death-toll climbed to 34,968 with 775 … Read more
NEW DELHI: Facebook removed a Hyderabad-based doctor’s post which offered potentially misleading medical advice including a blanket drugs prescription to Covid-19 patients on its social networking platform, heeding a first of its kind request from the Karnataka government amid the pandemic. The American social media company told ET it had removed the post of cardiologist … Read more