In recent days, Hyderabad sees a spike in mysterious respiratory virus cases with symptoms similar to adenovirus, influenza, and Swine Flu. No cause for alarm as the recovery rate is 100% within 5 days. Hyderabad is currently recording as acute viral respiratory similar to Swine Flu, adenovirus, and influenza. The virus is spreading across the […]
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Why State Govt Under Wrapping The Actual Covid Cases In Telangana?
Despite heavy surge in Covid cases in Telangana, the state government is under wrapping the actual numbers received from district health officials fearing of positivity rate forces government to impose public restrictions. Telangana, it appears, has found a way to keep the rampaging third wave of Covid-19 in the state – driven by the highly […]
Ek Doctor Ki Khani Usi Ki Zubani – When A Doctor Speaks…
With the reports of a third wave being inevitable, and doctors gearing up for another battle, hope people realise that ‘Every Doctor Is Here To Save Not To Kill’. This is the story of a Doctor who describes his job, duty, agony and plight. Just as things were coming back to normal, getting back to […]
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 […]
Why Govt Hospitals Crowded Out-Patient Areas Becoming ‘Covid Hotspots’ In Hyderabad?
There is a constant flurry of activity as one enters the Outpatient Block of the state-run Osmania General Hospital (OGH) in Hyderabad. Right at the end of a dimly-lit corridor near the entrance, doctors and nurses are seen moving in and out. ‘COVID-19’, a piece of paper stuck on the door declares. This is one […]
Why KCR Left ‘Corona Control’ To ‘Gods’?
After nearly two and a half months of fight with Coronavirus pandemic by imposing lockdowns, the Telangana government led by chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao seems to have thrown up his hands and left it to the fate of the gods. In the initial days of lockdown, KCR used to say that the situation was […]
Why Telangana Govt Accused of Underreporting Covid-19 Cases?
The Telangana chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s perception as a strong leader who has made timely interventions to contain the coronavirus epidemic came under the scanner when a doctors’ body alleged that his government may have underreported COVID-19 cases in the state. Doctors For Seva, a collective of private doctors based in Hyderabad, raised doubts […]
Is #CoronaVirus ‘Community Transmission’ Started In Telugu States?
Despite the state governments evaluations and statements on deadly #CoronaVirus community transmission, the attack is already kicked off in Telugu States of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. While Union health secretary Luv Agarwal has been saying every day that there was no community transmission of Covid-19 in the country, Telangana government’s bulletin too has bene saying […]
Why Hyderabad’s Govt Fever Hospital Covid-19 Isolation Ward Is In ‘Pathetic Condition’?
At this time of pandemic, the entire country is alert with Covid-19 positive patients, Hyderabad’s Fever Hospital is showing no concern towards Coronavirus positive patients isolation ward with completely Unhygienic conditions, no doctors, no support medical staff and no surveillance towards patients. Is this government’s apathy or negligence. A patient who has tested positive for […]
India’s Drug Problem And The Rising Health Care Cost
What if I told you there was a way to reduce household out of pocket expenditure by about 70% and catastrophic expenditure by 60-70% through merely an improvement in operational efficiency? India has made tremendous strides in life expectancy, maternal and infant mortality rates and HIV prevalence. However, we are now battling with both infectious […]