Politicians can get away with politically appealing statements that border on diplomatic niceties. Babu are expected to go by the rule book and rightly so if they are talking about the public health infrastructure. This being the second wave of Coronavirus pandemic has brought to the fore unhealthy differences in the statements given by the […]
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Gandhi Hospital ICU Capacity Full With Covid Patients, Alarming Situation Over Mortality In Hyderabad
As Telangana government declared Covid situation is under control but state covid designated Gandhi Hospital sounds sirens of alarming situations and less recoveries with high mortality. The present situation prevails at Gandhi Hospital as Covid patients occupied the 350-bedded Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and more inflow of patients makes the authorities to demand government the emergency […]
Superfast Covid Wave Shakes Telangana On Furious Mode
Telangana State reported 181 cases of coronavirus on March 9. In just a month, i.e. as of April 9, the number of daily cases touched 2,909. This represents a five-fold increase in the intensity of the Coronavirus infection, compared to that registered last year. And there is a steep rise in infections. It was only […]
Govt Reveal 7 UK Returnees Test Positive For Covid Strains In Telangana
The #KhabarLive published a story in these columns and it made impact to reveal the Telangana government stand to declare the seven travellers from the United Kingdom to Telangana have tested positive for Covid-19, state health officials said. Their samples have been sent to the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) to find out if […]
How Poor People Drag Into Murky ‘Covid Drug Trials’ In Telangana?
The test subjects are usually poor men, and touts teach them how to ‘score well’ to get into clinical trials. Karthik’s voice quivers as he describes what he is going through. “I was vomiting constantly for days. My insides hurt and sometimes I can’t even pick a glass up. My hands shake a lot,” he […]
How One ‘State Health Bulletin’ Can Answer To ‘Covid Criticism’ In Telangana?
After discrepancies were found and highlighted several times in the medical bulletins put out by the District Medical Health Officers (DMHO) and the state health department, Telangana has finally found a solution to this never-ending controversy: they have now instructed all DMHOs to stop issuing medical bulletins altogether! Most districts have already stopped issuing medical […]
Why Telangana Govt Failed To Handle ‘Covid-19 Muddle’ And Facing Flak?
Doctors, Epidemiologists, and researchers point out that Telangana now needs to enforce a comprehensive preventive strategy to arrest the transmission of the disease. But the sign of action from government is very blurring to see and clarification statements making noise all over. Recently, the Telangana government transferred out the Special Chief Secretary Health A Santi […]
‘Structural Health’ Of Osmania General Hospital Falls Prey To ‘Bad Political Governance’
Structural health of the heritage structure remains questionable for decades now. An existential dilemma has been plaguing the Osmania General Hospital in Hyderabad for long, with the structural health of the heritage structure, constructed in the early 1900s, remaining questionable for decades now. The condition of the hospital is once again the subject of a debate on […]
How To Avoid Covid Scare In Diabetics?
Diabetic patients might have a higher risk of severe infection, but there are ways to bring down the odds. Here’s some. We have all been repeatedly told that the elderly, particularly those above 60, and those with pre-existing illnesses like cardio-vascular diseases or “co-morbitities” are more vulnerable to serious COVID-19 infections. India currently ranks fourth […]
Why KCR Govt Adopted Covid ‘Manipulative Politics’ In Telangana?
Telangana is already among the worst COVID-hit states in the country but it now appears that it could be in a far more precarious position. There is a visible discrepancy in the number of positive cases that two arms of the state government have been putting out, raising suspicions that the state government may be […]