As part of its nationwide vaccination drive, India has administered over 88.13 lakh doses in the last 24 hours. This is the highest ever vaccination achieved in a single day since the start of our vaccination drive.
As people are crowding in the COVID wards, what measures can be taken to ameliorate the existing medical circuitry thus promoting a better framework for a healthier tomorrow? The one and a half years of pandemic struggle have certainly resulted from the rising fear among people who stay away from a consultation at multispecialty hospitals.
A total of 46.6 per cent people in a survey said they did not "think the Indian government is handling the Coronavirus well". Of them 29.2 per cent strongly disagreed with the steps being taken by the government to handle the viral outbreak.
At one time the cost of the RT-PCR test was Rs 4,000 in the state's private labs.
We expect a tsunami of diabetes cases and higher blood sugar levels due to the Covid crisis,” said endocrinologist Dr Shashank Joshi, dean, Indian College of Physicians, who is a member of Maharashtra state task force on Covid-19.
The exponential jump in the testing capacity and the number of tests has resulted in an upsurge in the Tests Per Million to 30,044 as on date, it highlighted.
A million additional cases have been detected globally roughly every four days since mid-July, according to an AFP tally.
People have been able to adapt to doing virtual meetings, frequent communication and meeting with each other virtually has helped to keep mental wellbeing in the right place.
There was a trend among radiologists, who were caring for a better work-life balance, to work one day at home and the pandemic just accelerated that trend. So in my opinion, Tele-healthcare is growing fact, however, that it is not an excuse to never visit the doctor anymore.
India is already the pharmacy of the world, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw said, and hoped for more engagement of the government’s imagination with the sector. “Sixty per cent of the vaccines that are produced for the world come from India, why are we not really thinking about vaccine diplomacy for the world?” she asked.
"When the COVID crisis started we had two units making Hydroxychloroquine, now we have 12 and production is more than the requirement.Hence, the Government of India lifted export restrictions on it.
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