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These plants are required in addition to 21 being set up across Odisha.
“As cases surge exponentially across the country, Prime Minster Narendra Modi has bolstered the ongoing concerted drive against the pandemic by taking several critical initiatives and crucial decisions to extend all possible assistance to states in battling the spread of the virus. Dedicated medical oxygen plants are one among them,” Pradhan wrote in his letter to Vardhan.
He said the PM has accorded emergency approval for installation of 551 PSA medical oxygen plants in public health facilities across the country from PM Cares fund in addition to the 162 PSA plants allocated earlier. It has been decided to set up 21 plants in the state by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), ministry of petroleum and natural gas and the Centre.
India’s vernacular reporters unearth devastating reality of Covid in rural areas
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15/05/2021 - 13:10 Graves of Covid-19 victims washed up on the banks of the Ganges river in Unnao, India, 13 May 2021. SANJAY KANOJIA AFP 5 min The real impact of India s Covid-19 surge on rural areas has begun to emerge thanks to vernacular media journalists reporting from the devastated countryside, where 70 percent of the population of 1.4 billion people live. Advertising Read more
Using journalism’s oldest tools, journalists have been unravelling firsthand the scale of the havoc in many of India’s 650,000 villages where a highly infectious strain of the coronavirus has spread.
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Indian Medical Association VP complains against Ramdev over Covid claims
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In his complaint, Dr Dahiya alleged that they indulged in propaganda suggesting that people should not seek treatment from doctors, using insulting language towards doctors and intentionally and deliberately violating directions for the treatment of Covid-19 affected patients. He urged the police commissioner to conduct a high-level inquiry into the issue and said a criminal case should be registered against the accused.
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Submitting video clips of Baba Ramdev with his complaint, Dahiya alleged that he advised Covid patients to not go to hospitals for treatment but cure their symptoms themselves by following his advice.