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Digambar Kamat calls for 'effective health care plan' to combat COVID-19 i
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], July 11 (ANI): Leader of Opposition and former Goa chief minister Digambar Kamat on Saturday slammed the state government for its COVID-19 response, and called for an "effective health care plan" to combat coronavirus pandemic in the state.
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Persons with mental illness, suspected mental illness are usually more exp
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 9 (ANI): Homeless or destitute persons with mental illness or suspected mental illness deserve all health care services including a test for COVID-19, owing to the fact that such persons are usually more exposed to the risks of the pandemic in comparison to the person
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Delhi: Rapid antigen detection test compulsory for high-risk group of indi
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 5 (ANI): Delhi health department on Sunday instructed all health care facilities to carry out compulsory rapid antigen detection testing of patients with ILI symptoms, patients admitted with SARI and other diseases who visit their facilities.
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Combating COVID-19: NCDC, Delhi Govt jointly begin Serological Survey acro
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 27 (ANI): Delhi government in association with the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday conducted national capital's first Serological Survey, wherein, the health care workers visited door-to-door to collect blood samples for COVID test.
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Psychiatric social counselling services for health care workers of Delhi g
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 17 (ANI): Psychiatric social counselling services will be available through tele-counselling for doctors, nurses, other health care workers and all other frontline workers fighting Covid-19 pandemic, under the aegis of Delhi government.
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Trump administration rolls back Obama-era Health Care Protections for tran
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 13 (ANI): US President Donald Trump administration on Friday finalised a regulation that overturns Obama-era Health Care Protections for transgender people against discrimination by doctors, hospitals and health insurance companies.
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Odisha to conduct state-wide door to door surveillance campaign for Covid
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha), June 10 (ANI): Health care personnel in Odisha will conduct a state-wide integrated campaign for door to door active surveillance for Covid, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said here on Wednesday.
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Researchers put a price tag on alcohol use
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Helsinki [Finland], June 9 (ANI): Alcohol use disorders are associated with high social welfare and health care costs -- but what causes them? A new Finnish study looks at the magnitude and reasons behind the economic burden alcohol use disorders have on society.
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Lack of compassion by Maharashtra government towards health care workers a
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 6 (ANI): Association of Medical Consultants (AMC) on Friday wrote a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to draw his attention towards various problems faced by doctors who are at the frontline in the battle against COVID-19.
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Four or more dosage of HCQ showed significant decline of covid19 among hea
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 1 (ANI): Citing noteworthy benefits of Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) prophylaxis against coronavirus, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has revealed that the consumption of four or more doses of the antimalarial drug- (HCQ), has shown a significant decline of C
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Decided not to deny health workers HCQ based on risk-benefit analysis: ICM
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 26 (ANI): Noting that a lot of drugs are being repurposed for treatment of COVID-19, ICMR Director-General Dr Balram Bhargava on Tuesday said that prophylactic use of Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) for health care workers had been recommended on the basis of risk-benefit a
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In Gujarat, we don't have health care system, we have sick system: Congres
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 24 (ANI): Senior Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi, while lashing out at Gujarat government on Sunday where COVID-19 cases have risen to 13,664 including 829 deaths, said that "in Gujarat today we don't have a health care system. We have a sick system."
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