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Units increase Covid beds; health experts urge caution

Health officials said the lack of supply of vaccines was prompting them to target only vulnerable sections in rural areas for now

Officials cite aggressive vaccination programmes in urban areas among the reasons

The resumption of flights from Bangladesh on Sunday may see a spurt in patients from the neighbouring country, who often combine tourism with treatmen

Evercare Hospital Lekki officially commenced operations of its 165-bed, purpose-built, multispecialty tertiary care facility in March 2021. With the hospital’s range of specialty services, it is positioned to be a trusted healthcare partner and preferred destination in Nigeria and the West African sub-regionI. In this interview, Evercare’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Ayo Shonibare speaks on the hospital’s offerings, strategy for curbing medical tourism as well as leveraging technology for ...

Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], July 8 (ANI/BusinessWire India): MGM Healthcare, a multi-specialty quaternary care hospital in the heart of Chennai, today announced that it had successfully performed a complex bilateral lung transplant on Master Nazar Dianov a 4-year old boy from Russia and is now one of Asias youngest recipients to undergo this procedure. A 20-member team under the leadership of Dr KR Balakrishnan Chairman & Director of Cardiac Sciences and Director of the Heart and Lung Trans...

Asias youngest recipient successfully undergoes lung trans 08 Jul 2021, 14:27 GMT+10 Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], July 8 (ANI/BusinessWire India): MGM Healthcare, a multi-specialty quaternary care hospital in the heart of Chennai, today announced that it had successfully performed a complex bilateral lung transplant on Master Nazar Dianov a 4-year old boy from Russia and is now one of Asias youngest recipients to undergo this procedure. A 20-member team under the leadership of Dr KR Balakrishn...

The rush for Covid vaccines, which had eased a bit after the Centre increased the gap between the two doses of Covishield, has multiplied manifold as thousands of people who were made to wait for 84 days are now desperate for the second jab.  Many private vaccination centres are witnessing a huge jump in the turnout and most of the people queuing up are waiting for the second dose, officials said.  Advertisement At most private hospitals on Wednesday, people had to wait for two to three hours...

The ongoing outreach Covid vaccination camps by private hospitals that have approval letters from the health department will continue, a state government official said on Monday. “We want private hospitals to conduct outreach vaccination camps as that will add pace to the vaccination programme. All such camps that have permission from the state health department will be allowed to go ahead. But we have introduced some additional screening,” state health secretary Narayan Swaroop Nigam said....

Two of five persons who attended the fake vaccination camps in Kasba, City College and Sonarpur are suffering from panic attacks or other related psyc