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The number of new Covid cases has dropped sharply but at several hospitals the percentage of critical patients is higher than those in the general ward, said doctors and officials of healthcare facilities. On Tuesday, June 22, Bengal reported 1,852 Covid cases and 47 deaths. According to the state health department data, 9.67 per cent of the total Covid beds were occupied. Advertisement One month back, on May 22, 18,863 new cases were detected in the state and there were 154 deaths. On that day...

KOLKATA: He was just 27 days old when diagnosed with a rare congenital heart disease. Even as doctors prepared to operate, came the next bad news — he was also Covid-positive. But the infant, now 50 days old, has managed to beat both. For Arup and Jaba Chandra, the joy of becoming parents was cruelly tempered just days before their baby turned a month old, when they found he had obstructed cardiac TAPVC (Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection), a rare condition affecting less than 1 in...

Several private hospitals have reported a reduced footfall for Covid vaccines on their premises over the past week. The good in that is the decentralisation of the vaccination drive seems to have had an effect. And the bad is that some doctors and public health experts see fresh hesitancy creeping in with swirling rumours about adverse effects and efficacy. Advertisement Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals was vaccinating 800 to 900 people every day on its premises. But over the past week, the footfall...

An advanced artificial intelligence technique known as deep learning can predict major adverse cardiac events more accurately than current standard imaging protocols, according to research presented at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2021 Annual Meeting. Utilizing data from a registry of more than 20,000 patients, researchers developed a novel deep learning network that has the potential to provide patients with an individualized prediction of their annualized risk for adve...

Corporate houses as well as medium and small-scale units want their employees vaccinated against Covid. Almost every household wants its domestic help inoculated. The demand for Covid jabs has been on the rise as an increasing number of people are realising that only a widespread vaccination could result in an early resumption of some form of normality. However, an uncertainty over supply is proving to be a stumbling block to faster vaccination. Several private hospitals in the city are flooded...

Several private hospitals that have resumed vaccination after weeks are seeing a sharp rise in the number of prospective recipients turning up for the shot

Hospitals said they were charging extra to cover cost of vehicles, doctors and nurses being deployed and the infrastructure to maintain the cold chain

Among the patients who died since the outbreak till Thursday, 72.6 per cent had comorbidities, which means 27.4 per cent of the victims had no comorbidities

The flight operations were suspended from 8am till 6.30pm on Wednesday as a precautionary measure against the storm

Several private hospitals have finalised deals for Covid vaccines - Covishield, Covaxin and Russian-made Sputnik V - and the consignments are expected to start coming from next week, officials of the healthcare units said on Tuesday. Only a handful of private hospitals are now administering Covid vaccines. Tens of thousands of vaccine recipients are waiting for other healthcare units to receive supplies and resume the vaccination drive. The drive has remained suspended at most private vaccinati...