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Thirteen Covid patients died at Goa s apex government hospital, the Goa Medical College, in the early hours of Friday owing to oxygen mismanagement, even as the death toll of patients who died between 2 am and 6 am at the premier facility reached 75 in four days.
Videos of chaos at the numerous wards of the medical college have gone viral, with patients, relatives pleading for assistance as well as uploading emotive snapshots of helplessness and lack of hygiene in the health facility.
A video shot at ward number 145, shows patients sleeping on mattresses and with oxygen monitors beeping in the background and the dull echo of family members patting patients in a bid to reassure them. The video also shows debris of used food packets and other waste piled in a corner of the ward, spilling out of garbage bags.
Devices can provide results of quality parameters in 30 seconds A Punjab-based firm, AgNext Technologies, has come up with a system based on digital technology and artificial intelligence (AI) that combines hardware, software and algorithms to test agricultural products for quality. AgNext Technologies, headquartered at Mohali in Punjab, has come up with this offering at a time when testing of produce such as spices have been affected as the second phase of Covid has affected the availability of manpower.
“Testing samples from farmers cuts both ways. Farmers could be disgruntled as they may feel they are not paid the right price for the right quality. It can be the other way too where a buyer feels he is not getting the right quality for the price he is willing to pay,” sais Taranjit Singh Bhamra, Chief Executive Officer and founder of AgNext Technologies.
Alma Matters: Inside the IIT Dream Review, Ep 1: A deep dive into IIT Kharagpur cracks the entertainment code
Alma Matters: Inside the IIT Dream chronicles IIT Kharagpur s history and current scenario to understand and breakdown the grandeur behind the Indian Institute of Technology. Written By
Sanjana Jadhav 9356 reads Mumbai Updated: May 14, 2021 03:25 pm Alma Matters: Inside the IIT Dream Review, Ep 1: A deep dive into IIT Kharagpur cracks the entertainment code.
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Alma Matters Stars: 3/5
With Netflix bringing ample of Indian content to its streaming platform, this week instead of a film, we get to see the docuseries Alma Matters: Inside the IIT Dream. The show is divided into almost three 50-minute long episodes and takes us inside some of the brightest brains of the country and their engineering dreams. However, Alma Matters begins on a quite different note.
Fall of her sophomore year, Xu joined MIT’s Therapeutic Technology Design and Development Lab as a research assistant. Under the guidance of Ellen Roche, associate professor of mechanical engineering and W.M. Keck Career Development Professor in Biomedical Engineering, Xu helped design a minimally invasive delivery system for a patch that could be placed on a beating heart and used to deliver drugs. More recently, she helped design a delivery tool for an implantable ventilator that actively moves a person’s diaphragm.
“Jessica is a methodical, creative, and talented engineer and an excellent communicator. She has been an absolute pleasure to work with on these two projects. Her mature understanding of the engineering design process enhanced the devices our team has been working on,” Roche said.
Goa: As oxygen shortage claims 75 lives in 4 days, BJP frets about party image
In this handout photograph released by Goa Chief Minister?s office and taken on May 11, 2021 Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant (R), wearing a personal protective equipment (PPE) suit, speaks to Covid-19 Coronavirus patients at the Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), in Panjim after 26 people admitted in the hospital due to the coronavirus died on the early morning.
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Mumbai: With oxygen mismanagement claiming the lives of 15 more Covid patients at the Goa Medical College Hospital in the early hours of Friday, the death toll in the last four days has climbed to 75. With all fingers pointing to Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and Health Minister Vishwajit Rane, the state BJP core committee jumped into action, holding an emergency meeting to decide on face-saving measures for the party. BJP sources told The Free Press Journal, âThe deaths at Goa Medical College Hospital and the governmentâ