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Height of cruelty, insult to humanity: Mayawati on dumping of COVI
Updated : 6 months, 4 weeks ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 1 (ANI): After a video showing health workers allegedly tossing bodies of coronavirus victims in a large pit in Karnataka, BSP President Mayawati on Wednesday stated that the incident is the "height of cruelty and insult to humanity".
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Doctor's Day: 'Violence against us breaks our heart', medics on vi
Updated : 6 months, 4 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 1 (ANI): Frontline health workers, who have been subjected to criticism and violence in several parts of the country during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic attribute it to the growing commercialisation of the practice among other factors.
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Mamata announces financial incentives for trained HHW in urban are
Updated : 7 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 28 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday announced a package of financial incentives for the trained Honorary Health Workers (HHW) providing services in urban areas.
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PIL moved in HC seeking release of confiscated PPE kits at Delhi a
Updated : 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 26 (ANI): A PIL has been moved in the Delhi High Court seeking direction to the Centre to release the confiscated PPE kits, face masks and sanitisers at the Air Cargo Terminal in Indira Gandhi International Airport and distributed them to COVID-19 frontline warriors i
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COVID-19: Engineering student invents camera-integrated thermal sc
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], June 22 (ANI): An engineering student in Kochi has invented a device 'AutoTemp Camera Integration' aimed to help health workers prevent COVID-19 by identifying the infected through thermal scanning.
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Health Ministry asks chief secretaries to ensure salaries of docto
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 18 (ANI): The Health Ministry has sent an order to chief secretaries of states and union territories asking them to ensure that salaries of doctors and health workers doing COVID-19 related duties are released on time by all concerned and any violation will be treate
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Don't threaten doctors, health workers for bringing out the truth;
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 17 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday slammed the Delhi government for threatening doctors, nurses, and health workers with legal actions for bringing to the public knowledge the state of healthcare in the hospitals of the national capital.
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Tripura professor develops robot to help health workers serving CO
Updated : 7 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Agartala (Tripura) [India], June 11 (ANI): In order to help the medical professionals serving COVID-19 patients, a young assistant professor has developed a robot, named 'COVID-19 WARBOT' that can serve food, medicines and other essential items to the patients without human intervention.
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UAE provides over 708 tons of medical aid to 62 countries to comb
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Abu Dhabi [UAE], June 5 (ANI): In a bid to combat COVID-19, UAE has provided more than 708 tons of medical aid, personal protection kits and supplies to 62 countries worldwide till date.
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Family of 3 test positive for COVID-19 in Kerala's Munnar, health
Updated : 8 months ago IST
Munnar (Kerala) [India], May 31 (ANI): A family of three, a 24-year-old man and his parents, tested positive for COVID-19 in Munnar on Sunday, alarming the health workers of the densely populated town in Idukki district of Kerala.
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10,000 Community Health Workers at work in Assam to prevent corona
Updated : 8 months ago IST
Guwahati (Assam) [India], May 27 (ANI/BusinessWire India): India is going through a difficult phase as COVID-19 pandemic victims are increasing exponentially of late.
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Decided not to deny health workers HCQ based on risk-benefit analy
Updated : 8 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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