Mankind Pharma will undertake a range of vital activities to combat leprosy and its socio-economic impacts. Over 80,000 individuals will undergo comprehensive screening, accompanied by extensive awareness programs designed to educate and inform communities.
The Telangana Teaching Government Doctors' Association condemned the suspension of doctors at Kamareddy government hospital. They argued that it is the responsibility of sanitation staff and officials to keep the hospital free from rats and insects.
Police said Pramod was drunk and sitting at the rear while the cops were at the front when he opened a window and pushed himself out of the moving car. He fell on the road and suffered serious head injuries. He was immediately taken to Jag Pravesh ChandranHospital, from where he was referred to GTB Hospital. However, due to unavailability of CT-scan, he could not be admitted there and was sent to LNJP Hospital. There were no ICU beds with ventilators at LNJP hence Pramod was taken to Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital.
The ward will have 24 general beds and two ICU beds. This will make it easier for transgenders to get fair treatment in a government hospital and make them feel comfortable. The members of the transgender community often face discrimination from other patients and this ward will make it easier for them.
After flooding, there is a fear of cases of vector-borne disease like dengue, chikungunya and malaria rising. But that trend is not being seen at the moment. Cases of conjunctivitis and skin allergy are mostly being reported from relief camps.
Family members of the deceased claimed Vaibhav Sharma, a resident of Anantpura Talab, died on Wednesday night when an oxygen mask over his face allegedly caught fire after Direct Current (DC) Cardioversion shock treatment and stuck to his neck in ICU.
In April 2022, the Tamil Nadu government passed the legislation to set up a siddha medical university. While all universities in the state have the governor as the chancellor, the bill for the proposed university said the CM would be the chancellor with powers to appoint the vice-chancellor. The state health minister would be the pro-chancellor.
The Ministry of Public Health under the caretaker Taliban regime said that efforts to increase human and technical capacities in hospitals are continuing.
According to Indian Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, nearly 1,200 bone marrow transplants are conducted in Delhi-NCR, including at least 200 at AIIMS, every year, while the requirement is for 3,200 patients.
Officials said the maximum expenditure for a patient at these centres would be around Rs 2 lakh, mostly on medicines and diagnostic tests not available at the hospitals. The cost of transplant at private hospitals vary from Rs 12 to Rs 30 lakh as per donor type and source of stem cells.
To make bone marrow transplant affordable, the Union government has planned to set up centres at its three hospitals in Delhi. Till date, only AIIMS Delhi has a facility in the city and the treatment cost is exorbitant in private hospitals.
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