Health
Five more test postive for swine flu in AP
By chennaivision at 27 July, 2009, 10:44 am
Hyderabad, Five more persons today tested positive for the swine flu, taking the number of people infected with H1N1 virus in Andhra Pradesh to 61.
Those infected included a five-year-old boy, who had not travelled abroad, Chest Hospital Superintendent S V Prasad told UNI.
The four others who tested positive belonged to Visakhapatnam.
As many as [...]
Kapil Sibal asks MCD to work towards better condition of hospitals
By chennaivision at 25 July, 2009, 5:49 pm
New Delhi, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal today expressed concern over bad condition of Municipal Corporation of Delhi hospitals and asked the corporation to work towards its betterment.
”The MCD hospitals do not have proper infrastructure to treat the patients and so they have to be referred to private hospitals.
However, the high [...]
IMA demands withdrawal of Service tax from cosmetic surgery
By chennaivision at 25 July, 2009, 5:46 pm
New Delhi, The Indian Medical Association(IMA) today urged the competent authorities to withdraw all taxes like Service tax from plastic and cosmetic surgery.
”Already the private health sector is taxed heavily. They are paying House tax for their clinics/nursing homes, water and electricity bills and even registration fees of their establishments on commercial [...]
31 Madarsa girls fall sick after eating mid day meal
By chennaivision at 25 July, 2009, 4:46 pm
Jaisalmer, As many as 31 girl students of a residential Girls Madarsa in Phusasar village about 140 Km from here, fell ill after consuming mid-day meal at their school this morning.
An official spokesman said here the sick girls were rushed to the government Hospital at Pokharan for treatment.
Most of them were later [...]
Lack of medicos leave British Raj Hospital in dismay
By chennaivision at 22 July, 2009, 12:12 pm
Nahan, British Raj hospital, once designed to provide round the clock health services to the people of this region in Sangrah district, is in a pathetic state.
The Hospital should have a strength of 29 doctors, but only 10 of them are actually working.
Patients, who come here for treatment, alleged that there [...]
15 new cases of H1N1 takes toll to 308
By chennaivision at 22 July, 2009, 10:18 am
New Delhi, Fifteen new laboratory confirmed cases of H1N1 flu have been reported today taking the toll of the swine flu to 308 in the country.
Delhi has reported six cases of H1N1 followed by Chennai, Pune and Vishakhapatnam two each and Gurgaon, Dehradun and Trivandrum one each, an official release said here.
Two [...]
Stem Cell Therapeutics launched in Kerala
By chennaivision at 17 July, 2009, 12:20 pm
Thiruvananthapuram, The Catalyz Life Technologies, a Technopark-based incubation company, has announced the launch of Stem Cells Therapeutics, an emerging technology that could be used to treat patients with incurable diseases.
Stem Cell Therapeutics will be established in Kerala through Catalyz, a new generation Healthcare Innovations Company focused on point-of-care diagnostics and stem cell [...]
Tewari raps MC for poor civic amenities
By chennaivision at 11 July, 2009, 5:54 pm
Ludhiana, Ludhiana MP and National spokesperson of the Congress Manish Tewari today rapped the local civic authorities for failing to provide basic civic amenities to the people here.
Addressing a felicitation function organised by the Urban Development Cell of the Punjab Pradesh Congress committee, Mr Tewari pointed out, the city was already inundated, even [...]
Promote NACO’s Asha Programme: Justice Shivraj Patel
By chennaivision at 10 July, 2009, 3:02 pm
Bangalore, Former Supreme Court Judge Justice Shivaraj Patel gave a call to the NGOs and CBOs (Community Based Organisations) to promote the Asha programme of the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO).
He also urged them to work together to develop a resource directory to help People Living with HIV (PLHIV) and other marginalised [...]
40 hospitalised with diarrhoea in Gulbarga dist
By chennaivision at 10 July, 2009, 2:56 pm
Gulbarga, Forty people have been hospitalised with diarrhoea in last 24 hours at Saidapur village in Gulbarga District.
Official sources said 20 people complained of vomiting last evening and were admitted to local hospital and as many complained of similar cases today following which they were admitted to Government hospital at Shahapur.
Sources said [...]
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