Health & Fitness

05 Jun

The biggest ever vaccination drive in India to be held on 6th June in the city at Hitex

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Hyderabad, Telangana: The biggest ever vaccination drive in India to be held in the city, the Vaccine Capital of the World at Hitex Exhibition Grounds, Madhapur on Sunday, 6th June 2021. It will be held in the safest environment without queues, lines, waiting and getting crowded in the most seamless manner. Speeding up Vaccination Drive is top of every government's top priority to stop the Fastest Surge of COVID-19. With that objective back of mind, a Mega, probably the biggest ever vaccination drive held in India will be held this Sunday, where 40,000 people are expected to be inoculated on…
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29 May

SCSC & Cyberabad Police launched O2 Bank in collaboration with Breath India, EO & Alai NGOs

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Hyderabad, Telangana : In a bid to help the needy patients in Hyderabad with Oxygen Concentrators at Home, SCSC(Society for Cyberabad Security Council) & Cyberabad Police have launched O2 Bank with 50 Oxygen Concentrators at Cyberabad Police Commissionerate office in collaboration with Breathe India, EO & ALAI & other NGOs. Speaking on the occasion, VC Sajjanar, IPS., Commissioner of Police & Chairman SCSC said, this facility will be accessible to all those needy patients who can’t afford to buy or rent an Oxygen Concentrator to maintain saturation levels prescribed by doctor. The Facility will be made available at their homes. …
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28 May

Solution to all the common man’s problems; Sarkari Helpline, ‘A One stop gateway’’ for Public Services

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New Delhi [India]: The panic-driven messages amid the second wave of Covid-19 on social media platforms and frantic calls to friends and relatives for support and emergency contacts for exigencies ranging from oxygen support to ICU beds have made us understand the need for having important healthcare contacts within our reach at all times. This is where B2C startups such as Delhi-based ‘Sarkari helpline’ come up to bridge the gap. It has emerged to be a key player in providing all the essential contacts of any government official or department, making them easily accessible from any corner of the country.…
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28 May

Researchers reveal key protein structure in COVID-19 virus

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New Delhi: A team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Mandi (IIT Mandi), led by Dr. Rajanish Giri, Assistant Professor, School of Basic Sciences, have elucidated the part of structure of a key protein in the COVID-19 virus, which helps in understanding its mode of action, its role in the spread and severity of the disease and development of antiviral therapeutics.  Current COVID-19 treatments simply manage symptoms while the body fights off the infection with its immune defence system. There are, as yet, no confirmed antiviral drugs that can stop the virus from replicating. One route to neutralising…
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25 May

Sarkarihelpline: Covid survivor, Vaibhav, helping with resource-free data to fight the pandemic

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New Delhi [India]: At a time when the entire country is reeling under the grip of the Covid-19 crisis, Delhi’s Vaibhav Mishra has been earning praise from across the country after he upped the ante in the war against pandemic with his noble initiative ‘Sarkarihelpline.com’. The Delhi-based 27-year-old, Vaibhav, who himself suffered from Covid-19 few moons back decided to provide information on Covid to the citizens across the country through one click on Sarkarihelpline.com. Sarkarihelpline.com is a bilingual, Hindi and English, user-friendly e-directory website that stores Government Telephone E-Directory, Covid-related information and has a helpline center as well in the…
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24 May

JL Kapoor Memorial Trust Ensures a Helping Hand to 23500 Residents of Transit Camp, Anand Parbat, Delhi

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New Delhi, 24th May, 2021: JL Kapoor Memorial Trust, during the time of Coronavirus pandemic, has taken an initiative to extend help and support to 23500 Residents of Transit Camp, Anand Parbat, Delhi (a DDA Camp). The camp is housing the renowned artists of Kathputli colony who are now helpless due to the raging pandemic from last year. The initiative focuses on providing COVID Pandemic Relief Material that includes masks, sanitizers, disinfectants, pulse oximeter, oxygen kits, PPE kits, infrared thermometer etc. to the residents who have been tested positive. To ensure less people should sleep hungry in the ongoing pandemic,…
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24 May

Talk on Black Fungus by an expert

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If I have done 30 surgeries in last 30 years, I have done same number of mucormycosis surgeries in the last 2/3 weeks. Situation is so bad: Dr. M. Mohan Reddy, ENT Specialist  What we noticed so far is that post COVID patients from 10days to 50 days developed Mucormycosis: ENT Expert Hyderabad, Telangana : TSFCCT organised  an awareness talk on Fungal Infection "Black Fungus" that is shaking our country now. The Telangana State Federation of Chambers of Commerce & Trade (TSFCCT)  which is always in the forefront of organising awareness talks on emerging and new subjects has roped in…
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22 May

DRDO lab develops antibody test kit for COVID-19

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New Delhi: Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) scientists have now got a new breakthrough after developing COVID-19 drug 2-DG. Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences (DIPAS), a DRDO laboratory, has now developed an antibody detection-based kit 'DIPCOVAN', the DIPAS-VDx COVID-19 IgG Antibody Microwell ELISA for sero-surveillance. The kit has been developed in association with New Delhi based company, Vanguard Diagnostics Pvt Ltd. DIPCOVAN kit can detect both spike as well as nucleocapsid proteins of SARS-CoV-2 virus with a high sensitivity of 97 per cent and specificity of 99 per cent. DIPCOVAN kit was developed indigenously followed by extensive validation…
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21 May

A virtual talk by Apollo Doctor on “Tiding Over Second Wave of Covid” held

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Once you get Corona, it is not the end of Life: Dr. Sudhir People are in a dilemma to choose a vaccine among the available three. It is better to take the one which has less duration between doses so that you get protection faster, Dr Sudhir informed to a question Crores have taken vaccines and their safety and efficacy is established. So one must not hesitate to get inoculated Except for pregnant women and kids below 18, it is safe for people with all ailments to take vaccine The 2DG, an oral antiviral drug just launched by DRDO is…
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19 May

Project Ashray – a Medical Care Centre for Early COVID patients

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Hyderabad, Telangana : The spread of the Virus is so fast, vast and devastating that demand has outgrown that the existing infrastructure was inadequate. The need for a medical care facility for the mild or asymptomatic is ore because hospital beds that are otherwise needed for serious patients are being occupied by these people by sheer fear. The mild patients do not need much medical attention as some serious patients do. By isolating them in facilities like these help to save the hospitals' beds for patients who are more serious, critical or those who may need critical and emergency support…
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