After Black Fungus, the surge of multi-morbidity cases makes worry to doctors in Hyderabad. Adding to the Covid-19 spread, seasonal diseases are joining the virus, leading to increase in multi-morbidity cases in Hyderabad. A combination of typhoid and Corona is taking the first place in such cases. Says Dr Shoba, RMO, Gandhi Hospital: “In my […]
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8 Covid Patients Die As ‘Excess Oxygen Pressure’ In TIMS, Deaths Kept Inder Wrap
At least eight patients, all in one row of beds in an intensive care unit at the Telangana Institute of Medical Sciences (TIMS), died after a fall in pressure in the oxygen lines. There was just one lucky patient in the same row who survived in the ICU on the second floor of TIMS, thanks […]
Hundreds Of Ventilators Are Lying Unattended In Hyderabad Hospitals
Many ventilators provided by the PM Cares fund need small repairs but as the government hospital lack staff and technicians ventilators and other medical supplies not being able to be put to use and eventually turning waste. Lack of staff and technicians in several government hospitals in Telangana is creating a serious situation of stocked […]
Telangana Govt Claims ‘All Is Well’ But Still Many Covid Patients Scramble For Beds And Oxygen Support
The Telangana Chief Minister KCR declaration to avoid lockdown as Covid situation is improving and recent, Telangana Chief Secretary K Somesh Kumar statement as the situation in Telangana is ‘better’ than in other states. On the contrary, the 21-year-old Tamim Sultana, a resident of Malakpet in Hyderabad, has been frantically searching for hospitals to shift […]
’Telangana Covid Situation Is Getting Worse, Impose Lockdown Immediately’
Why Telangana government is playing with lives of citizens as the Covid situation is getting worse day by day. Several doctors, leaders, social activists and citizens are requested to impose lockdown immediately. Doctors associations and citizens alike in Telangana long for a lockdown, though the state Chief Secretary declared that “there is no need for […]
Hundreds Of Covid Patients ‘Dying At Homes’ Due To High Cost Treatment And Funeral Chaos In Hyderabad
The covid deaths are showing horrible situation in Hyderabad. All burial grounds, crematoriums, cemeteries are kept corpses on 2-3 days waiting list. Those who help cremate bodies say besides a lack of beds, steep hospital bills, and ambulance costs are forcing many COVID patients to prefer home treatment. Zulaiqa Begum, a 50-year-old resident of Zeba […]
Private Hospitals Charging Exorbitant ‘Funeral Packages’ For Covid Dead Bodies In Hyderabad
Cashing in on the surge in coronavirus cases and deaths in privatehospitals, some of the crematoriums in Hyderabad along with heartless, avaricious middlemen, are offering pricey packages for performing the last rites of those who died with COVID-19. There are differing packages available for the last journey, from mortuary to burial ground. Middlemen are reportedly […]
Why Political Parties Turn Paper Tigers As Covid Cases Surge In Telugu States?
The trouble maker virus Covid has changed not only people’s lifestyle, but also work culture. In particular, coronavirus has changed the functioning of political parties and their offices. Locked in, political parties have all become ‘paper tigers’ – the term they use to describe one another in the political arena. Political leaders and workers have […]
‘Sextortion’ Mafia On Prowl In Hyderabad
Criminals are collecting browsing history of those visiting porn sites and using it for extortion methods. This is rampant in Hyderabad as more people are keeping idle and enjoying pornographic sites and apps during lockdown. ‘Sextortion‘, a cyber crime which has been observed in the West, has officially arrived in India with a bang to […]
Where To Keep ‘Covid Dead Bodies’ During Night Time In Hyderabad?
The dead covid victims in private hospitals is facing severe challenges to preserve the dead bodies in Hyderabad. Due to the lack of storage facilities in a number of small private hospitals in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) region to preserve dead bodies, family members of those who succumb to COVID-19 are facing difficulties […]