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Gujarat: A Painful Period in Salt Pans of Little Rann of Kutch
Women workers go through a cycle of agony in the eight months they toil in salt pans, where poor water availability and lack of medical help make monthly bleeding scary.
Varavara Rao seeks extension of medical bail
The Bombay High Court had granted bail to Rao owing to his deteriorating health condition in February for a period of 6 months
Dengue spreads in UP: Lucknow medical team arrives in Firozabad
Sources say the arrival of medical reinforcement from Lucknow provides an ample labour force to deal with the growing cases
Maharashtra: Is setting up medical institutes under public-private partnership a good route?
The government has decided to set up new medical colleges, super-speciality hospitals across the state on a public-private partnership basis
Gujarat: Harvard-UCB study reports 16,000 excess deaths during Covid pandemic!
Researchers say that official methods of recording mortality like death certificates cannot work as efficient indicators, due to a improper record keeping and a weak healthcare system
One Day in a Ward in Kolkatta battling Covid-19
Representation Image | AP “Dadu, Dadu…Get up Dadu. Eat something. Take your...
The Bengal response to Covid
Bengal's response to Covid was more inclusive and sensitive
UP: 103 Covid warriors dead, only 41 families compensated
The CM apprised the Legislative Assembly that 103 health and sanitation workers have succumbed to the virus
Centre dodgy on oxygen deprivation deaths
After claiming no deaths due to oxygen shortage, Centre says “some” patients died due to insufficient oxygen supply in Andhra Pradesh; 23 people had allegedly died due to lack of adequate oxygen on May 10 at Tirupati’s Ruia Government General Hospital
Covid-19: Are Indians letting their guard down against a possible third wave?
States such as Orissa, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Delhi and Himachal Pradesh have upped vigilance, surveillance already
4.7 lakh prisoners, but only over 22,000 fully vaccinated!
The Health Ministry has informed the Lok Sabha that all prisoners above the age of 18 are expected to be inoculated by December 2021
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