Health

Hyderabad, May 14 : In a tragic turn of events, two patients from Andhra Pradesh died in the ambulance vehicles they were traveling in, as Telangana Police did not permit vehicles without valid online permits to cross the interstate border at Kurnoo…

New Delhi, May 14 : The Delhi government announced on Friday that it will bear the cost of raising and educating children who have lost their parents, and also provide financial help to families and senior citizens who have lost their earning members…

Chennai, May 14 : The Tamil Nadu government has fixed charges for ambulances carrying Covid 19 patients.The state health secretary J Radhakrishnan in an order issued on Friday said a basic patient transport ambulance can charge an amount of Rs 1500 …

Panaji, May 14 : The Goa government will launch a free vaccination drive for persons in the age group of 18-45 years from Saturday, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said.The vaccination drive will begin in all 35 government health centres, Sawant said ur…

New Delhi, May 14 : It might not be sufficient to save them for long from the Covid-19 pandemic, but the initiative of a senior IPS officer to distribute immunity booster kits among his colleagues carrying out their duties in the field would boost th…

New Delhi, May 14 : Bharatiya Janata Party chief J.P. Nadda has asked Goa’s Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and Health Minister Vishwajit Rane to keep aside their differences and focus on controlling the Covid pandemic in the state.Amid the worsening si…

Chennai, May 14 : The new Covid-19 adjuvant drug 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) impacts only the coronavirus affected cells and not the good cells in the human body, said one of the improved process inventors.He also said the drug reduces the oxygen depend…

New Delhi, May 14 : Care Health Insurance has come up Covid support initiatives, including setting up Covid Holding Centre at their corporate office in Gurugram for its employees and their families.The Covid centre is designed as a temporary isolati…

Lucknow, May 14 : Ritesh Chaturvedi (name changed on request) is a senior journalist with a local daily. Since the past four days, he has been complaining of nausea, is unable to eat and cannot sleep.Two days ago, he consulted his family doctor and …

Panaji, May 14 : Thirteen Covid patients died at Goa’s apex government hospital, the Goa Medical College, in the early hours of Friday owing to oxygen mismanagement, even as the death toll of patients who died between 2 am and 6 am at the premier fac…