Stores unsure when supplies will come back Aarthi N Bengaluru, March 05, 2020 Bengaluru has a shortage of face masks and hand sanitizers as a large number of people have started to buy them after the outbreak of coronavirus. Eight out of the ten medical stores Newsnet visited on March 5, did not have masks […]
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The Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases (RGICD) has set up an isolation ward for the treatment of Coronavirus-infected patients. By Priyansh Verma Bengaluru: Three patients who are suspected of being infected with Coronavirus have been admitted to the RGICD. The Karnataka Health Department said that Government as well as private hospitals are planning to […]
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With new confirmed cases of the COVID-19 being detected in India, stocks of surgical masks, pollution masks and the basic N-95 masks are selling like hot cakes. By Savyata Mishra City chemists and druggists opened their shops today to a new surge in demand for masks, as Bengalureans brace themselves to the coronavirus epidemic, after a […]
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Due to the indefinite suspension of classes amid coronavirus outbreak, the parents of Indian-origin students pursuing MBBS degrees in China are seeking accommodation of their kids in Indian medical universities. By Neetu Saini Juggling her books and clothes, Apurva Issar, a fifth-year student of Tianjin Medical University in Beijing was packing when she received a […]
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Rural India still shows increasing counts of Acute flaccid paralysis One fine evening in the month of July when Mallikarjun was back from school, he had his evening snack and then went off to bed for a nap. When he woke up, he was unable to stand up, his right limb was trembling and he […]
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“The world isn’t built with a ramp.” ― Walt Balenovich Disability is not a disease but a state of condition. Despite this, being disabled is still a stigma in our society. Kushtagi is a taluk in North Karnataka which consists of 177 villages and one town. It has a population of nearly 2,85,000. Five to six […]
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In India 62 million people including 6 million children are estimated to have serious health problems due to consumption of fluoride contaminated water Groundwater contributes about 80% of the drinking water requirements in the rural areas. There are five taluks under the Raichur district with a geographical area of 8383 sq.km, out of which Manvi […]
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No gas connections for villagers in Saundatti taluk of Belagavi district Yellwama Shinghade, a homemaker, lives with her family in a small village called Ugargol, 20 km away from Saundatti Taluk in Belagavi district. She was refused a gas connection despite submitting necessary documents to the gas agency. Now, she uses firewood and fuel to […]
Continue ReadingPublic Distribution System faces the loopholes in the taluk of Manvi In the district of Raichur, the malnutrition has been soaring always. There are 14000 children in Manvi Taluk who are moderately malnourished and 300 children who are severely malnourished. Though the doctors in the Taluk said the malnourishment levels are decreasing, there are still […]
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In the year 2018, out of 305 people diagnosed positive in Hoovina Hadagali, 57 of them had multi-drug resistant TB. India has the highest number of tuberculosis cases in the world. It also has the second highest number of multi-drug resistance tuberculosis (MDR- TB) cases in the world which constitutes one- fourth of the total […]
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