: Friday, May 21, 2021, 2:02 PM IST
Sunderlal Bahuguna who led Chipko movement dies after battling COVID-19; PM Modi calls it monumental loss
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Environmentalist and Chipko movement pioneer Sunderlal Bahuguna breathed his last on on Friday afternoon at Delhi s All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) after a fight against COVID-19. The 94-year-old had been admitted tot he hospital on May 8 after testing positive. He had been critical since last night with his oxygen level dropping drastically. Passing away of Shri Sunderlal Bahuguna Ji is a monumental loss for our nation. He manifested our centuries old ethos of living in harmony with nature. His simplicity and spirit of compassion will never be forgotten. My thoughts are with his family and many admirers. Om Shanti, tweeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi soon after his death.
Doctors perform a diagnostic nasal endoscopy (DNE) on a patient to detect black fungus at a hospital in Jabalpur.
NEW DELHI: Rare, life-threatening Covid-19 complications appear to be escalating in India, creating a fresh wave of critical medical challenges in a country that has already seen short supplies of oxygen and other basic needs.
Pharmacists are warning of a shortage of a crucial drug to treat an invasive fungal infection preying on patients with weakened immune systems and diabetes. An uptick in cases across India of a dangerous inflammatory syndrome in children also seen in the US and Europe at the height of their outbreaks is a harbinger of a potentially deadly spate of the pediatric illness in the coming weeks.
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An Indian man receives a Covid-19 vaccine shot, inside a modified vaccination centre at Press Club in Kolkata, Eastern India, May 19th 2021. Photograph: Piyal Ashikary/EPA
Rare, life-threatening Covid-19 complications appear to be escalating in India, creating a fresh wave of critical medical challenges in a country that has already seen short supplies of oxygen and other basic needs.
Pharmacists are warning of a shortage of a crucial drug to treat an invasive fungal infection affecting patients with weakened immune systems and diabetes. An uptick in cases across India of a dangerous inflammatory syndrome in children - also seen in the US and Europe at the height of their outbreaks - is a harbinger of a potentially deadly spate of the pediatric illness in the coming weeks.
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Mumbai/Melbourne/London Rare, life-threatening Covid-19 complications appear to be escalating in India, creating a new wave of critical medical challenges in a country that has already seen short supplies of oxygen and other basic needs.
Pharmacists are warning of a shortage of a crucial drug to treat an invasive fungal infection preying on patients with weakened immune systems and diabetes. An uptick in cases across India of a dangerous inflammatory syndrome in children also seen in the US and Europe at the height of their outbreaks is a harbinger of a potentially deadly spate of the pediatric
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