Health

New Delhi, May 12 : The Indian Railways on Wednesday said that 100 Oxygen Express operated by it so far have delivered 6,260 MT of Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) across the country.Railway Ministry spokesperson D.J.Narain said: “Overcoming all hurdles a…

New Delhi, May 12 : The PM-CARES Fund has sanctioned the procurement of 1.5 lakh units of Oxycare System at a cost of Rs 322.5 crore.The system is developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) to regulate oxygen being administ…

New Delhi, May 12 : The Delhi High Court on Wednesday expressed its displeasure with Delhi government for not fully operationalising the 1,241 bedded Indira Gandhi Hospital, which currently has only 80 beds for non-serious COVID patients. A bench co…

New Delhi, May 12 : Reinforcing its commitment to support communities, YES BANK has enabled its customers to use their banking and credit card reward points to contribute towards medical oxygen for COVID-19 patients.This facilitation is being offere…

Mumbai, May 12 : Low-cost carrier GoAir said on Wednesday that it will commence a programme to get its entire workforce vaccinated free of cost.Accordingly, GoAir has tied up with various hospitals in different cities for the vaccination programme.”T…

Chennai, May 12 : The Tamil Nadu government has decided to go in for global tender to source Covid-19 vaccines as the allotment by the central government is insufficient.A decision to this effect was taken at the meeting chaired by Chief Minister M.K…

Bengaluru, May 12 : Karnataka chief secretary P. Ravi Kumar on Wednesday said that the state government was ready to help any pharma company that will come forward to produce the Sputnik V vaccine in the state. As of now only two vaccines manufactu…

New Delhi, May 12 : The government has said it is taking steps to ramp up availability of Amphotericin B – to fight Mucormycosis, a black fungus infection in Covid patients.The sudden increase in demand has been observed in some states for Amphoteric…

New Delhi, May 12 : A week after kick-starting the Covid vaccination drive for those in the age group of 18-44 years, the national capital has ran out of its Covaxin stock for this particular segment.The Delhi government, which had recently said that…

Chandigarh, May 12 : With the surge in the pandemic in rural areas, the Haryana government on Wednesday directed the Deputy Commissioners to enforce the age-old practice of setting up ‘Thikhri Pehra’ or community policing in villages.Under this prac…