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Triaging COVID-19 patients at home brings down direct admissions to hospitals in Chennai Triaging at home is done for COVID patients below the age of 60 where a doctor accompanied by a staff nurse and ANM visit them, check their vitals and take note of their symptoms Share Via Email   |  A+A A- A nurse consulting a Covid-19 patient outside Corona Outpatient Department at Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital in Chennai. (Photo | Debadatta Mallick, EPS) Express News Service CHENNAI: Triaging COVID-19 patients at home has brought down the number of patients being admitted directly to g...

Every alternate day, they have meetings with other corporation officials to review the situation in their respective zones.

The New Indian Express. Meanwhile, the civic body restarted door-to-door fever surveillance from Thursday. The exercise was put on hold during the election season since corporation officials feared the volunteers might be used for political propaganda. "We had recalled those who had been working with us earlier because we already have their bank accounts. Some had gone on to other jobs and some did not turn up. This week we are going to continue the exercise with whoever is there. We are expecting more people to turn up from next week," a corporation health official told The New Indian Expre...

Express News Service CHENNAI: For the last three weeks, a group of street vendors who do business along the Marina beach have resumed their one-time ritual of picking up waste on a stretch of the shore -- from near the corporation swimming pool until the labour statue. "This had been a weekly ritual where a group of us (vendors) assemble every Monday before 9 am and pick up waste along the beach. We had stopped the practice for around three years. Now, we are taking it up once again," said Sekaran, National Association of Street Vendors of India. On Monday, a group of fifty vendors gathered o...

At stall 220 at the Chennai Book Fair, visitors stare silently at the sculpture on display. Some pay no attention. Others touch it. A few walk to the publishers to ask for the meaning.