The plan to set up the lab with Rs 200 crore was announced by the state government in February 2021 during the budget session. The lab was to be set up on the lines of National Virological Institute at Pune, which studies human pathogens.
As per its website, AIIMS Rajkot shall be a 750-bed hospital with multiple specialities as well as super-speciality departments. The project cost for construction is about Rs 1,195 crore which includes an allocation of Rs 185 crore towards state-of-the-art medical equipment.
Numerous cases of acute kidney injury (AKI) caused by heatstroke, acute water diarrhoea and gastroenteritis have been reported from all over Pakistan, especially the provinces of Sindh and Punjab, due to extremely hot weather.
Even though Covid cases in Uttar Pradesh are on the decline, experts feel that it is still too early to predict the end of the third wave. They feel that safety protocols must be followed.
A scientist of medicinal chemistry at the Banaras Hindu University Dr Nazar Hussain has bagged a project of SERB-DST to carry out research on the cost-effective anti-diabetic drugs by new routes.
The lab kicked off Covid testing in April 2020, one month into the pandemic, and generated the first Covid test report on April 11. It has a core staff of 15, but during the peak of the second Covid wave, more than twice this number of staff were working round the clock to make reports available on time.
Hospital supply drugs which should be provided free of cost to patients at government hospitals are being sold off the counters in the city.
They can’t suffix their names with their qualification. The reason — the course hasn’t been approved by the Medical Council of India, citing lack of sufficient staff in the medical college.
The Yogi Aditya Nath-led government’s decision to allot 100 seats to the Institute of Medical Sciences in Kasna in the recent budget has ignited speculation that the facility could soon be recognised by the Medical Council of India.
A rare case of ‘foetus in foetu’ (FIF) in a three-month old baby was reported at the hospital of Banaras Hindu University. The doctors at the paediatric department of the Institute of Medical Sciences, successfully operated upon the kid and took out 13cm-long weighing 450 gm undeveloped foetus from the body. The kid is normal, and recovering at the hospital.
Visakha Institute of Medical Sciences (VIMS) will not be privatised, but would run as an autonomous institute, said new VIMS director Dr CV Rao.
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