Chennai to get more beds, screening centres
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A new screening centre at Island Grounds will function round the clock
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Recruitment drive: Doctors and nurses waiting to attend the interview on Thursday as Greater Chennai Corporation is recruiting medical professionals to dealt the rising number of COVID-19 cases. | Photo Credit: RAGU R
A new screening centre at Island Grounds will function round the clock
The Greater Chennai Corporation will open a 24x7 screening centre for triaging COVID-19 patients at the Kendriya Vidyalaya Island Grounds in two days.
This is part of a slew of steps taken by the authorities to increase bed capacity and the number of screening centres in Chennai to deal with the rising number of cases.
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March 05, 2021 13:58 IST
Police said ‘Mylapore’ Sivakumar, who was wanted in several criminal cases in the city, was hacked to death by a gang in Postal Colony
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Police said ‘Mylapore’ Sivakumar, who was wanted in several criminal cases in the city, was hacked to death by a gang in Postal Colony
Special teams have been formed to trace the suspects who killed history-sheeter ‘Mylapore’ Sivakumar, 42 in Postal Colony, West Mambalam on Thursday night.
Police said ‘Mylapore’ Sivakumar, who was wanted in several criminal cases in the city, was classified as an ‘A Plus’ category rowdy. He has 35 cases, including three murder charges, 10 attempt to murder charges and 22 other other offences registered against him. Sivakumar was the main accused in the murder of his rival Thottam Sekar in 1997, and the key suspect in the attack on slain gangster Thottam Sekar’s wife Malarkodi and son Azhaguraja, in front of Casino Theatre near Anna Sal
Chennai: Three months after Dr N Logesh Kumar, a 24-year-old postgraduate student of Madras Medical College, died in a hotel room where he had quarantined himself after Covid-19 duty, the directorate of medical education has declared that forensic, histopathology and radiology reports indicate that he had died due to Covid-19.
The directorate, which is in charge of administering all government medical colleges, sent a formal report to the government to record Covid as the cause of his death and process applications to get ex gratia for his family.
Logesh Kumar was taken to Government Royapettah Hospital where he was declared ‘brought dead’. Police said they suspected suicide or food poisoning and his body was sent to the mortuary for postmortem. The postmortem was completed yet, until Friday, the cause of death was not disclosed. Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital dean Dr E Theranirajan had asked directors of pathology, radiology and forensic medicine to submit their op