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Uday, cheetah brought from South Africa, dies; 2nd in a month

Uday was translocated to India from Waterberg Biosphere of South Africa on February 18.

Officials said that Uday died during treatment around 4pm and the cause of death would be clear after the autopsy. (HT)

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Updated on Apr 24, 2023 01:57 AM IST

ByShruti Tomar, Bhopal

450-bed isolation facility for Covid at Lok Nayak hospital in Delhi

Delhi reported 293 Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, according to the daily health bulletin of the state government. This was a sharp fall from Sunday’s numbers, when the city reported 429 infections

Health minister Saurabh Bhardwaj at LNJP hospital in New Delhi on Monday. (HT Photo)

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Updated on Apr 04, 2023 12:09 AM IST

BySoumya Pillai

54-year-old woman dies by suicide in Covid isolation ward of Shimla hospital

Woman was hospitalised after she tested positive on September 18; her son says she was suffering from hypertension also; first case of suicide by Covid patient in hospital in Himachal Pradesh

A resident of Chaupal in Shimla district, the woman tested positive for Covid-19 on September 18 after which she was referred to the hospital and admitted in the isolation ward.(HT file)

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Updated on Sep 24, 2020 12:21 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Shimla | ByHT Correspondent, Shimla

Covid-infected Jammu health director admitted to private hospital

The Centre’s team of health experts will reach Jammu on Saturday

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Updated on Sep 19, 2020 08:26 AM IST

Hindustan Times/Jammu | ByRavi Krishnan Khajuria, Jammu

Peeved over ‘indiscipline’, Jammu GMCH principal opts for VRS

In a two-page letter to lieutenant governor (LG) Manoj Sinha, Digra said he was choosing to opt for VRS because of interference of ‘extra-institutional officials’ in the working of the hospital.

Jammu Government Medical College and Hospital principal Dr Nasib Chand Digra.

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Updated on Sep 15, 2020 12:40 AM IST

Hindustan Times/Jammu | ByRavi Krishnan Khajuria, Jammu

4-year-old falls off stairs and dies at GMCH, Jammu; kin allege doctors’ negligence

Victim’s mother says he was shifted to isolation ward on the pretext of being Covid positive where he passed away without being attended to

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Updated on Sep 12, 2020 09:42 PM IST

Hindustan Times/Jammu | ByHT Correspondent, Jammu

Ziqitza Healthcare has served over 1.09 Lac COVID-19 patient transfers

It was unprecedented for everyone when COVID -19 pandemic hit countries, business and people irrespective of class, income and boundaries.

Ziqitza Healthcare, which presently operates the helplines 104 / 108 that support the COVID handling, had to scale up their operations and base as per the guidelines and advice from the health ministry, in a short period in hand to manage 10x of calls inflow a day.

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Updated on Sep 11, 2020 08:02 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Covid-19: Health insurance is your best bet against steep medical costs

A health insurance policy will not only make it easier for you to get proper medical facilities, but also save you from emptying your financial reservoirs.

Reliance General Insurance offers a slew of unique benefits as part of its policy, so that you can allay your fears about healthcare in these stressful times(Shutterstock)

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Updated on Aug 13, 2020 02:29 PM IST

ByPromotional Feature, HT Brand Studio

Amitabh Bachchan says he sings in isolation ward at night, shares effects of Covid-19 treatment on mental state of patient

Amitabh Bachchan, living in isolation for Covid-19 treatment, has shared how a patient doesn’t get to see another face for weeks since all doctors and nurses are covered in PPE kits.

Amitabh Bachchan is recovering from Covid-19 at a hospital in Mumbai.

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Updated on Jul 26, 2020 08:24 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

General households to cut and store waste masks, gloves for 72 hours before disposing of: CPCB

Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) also directed commercial establishments like malls and offices to follow the same procedure with discarded protective personal equipment (PPE) from general public.

This is the fourth time the CPCB has issued guidelines on management of bio-medical waste generated from coronavirus.(HT Photo)

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Published on Jul 23, 2020 05:42 PM IST

New Delhi | ByPress Trust of India| Posted by Susmita Pakrasi

Ludhiana DC visits Civil Hospital to check Covid-19 facilities

Says bed capacity in level-1 Covid control centres for non-critical patients had been increased to 1,200, and at level-2 centres (for severe cases) to 450

Deputy commissioner Varinder Sharma (third from left) visited the Ludhiana Civil Hospital on Monday.(Hindustan Times)

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Updated on Jul 21, 2020 12:26 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Ludhiana | ByHT Correspondent, Ludhiana

Delhi police crack down on snatchers as pandemic keeps crime low

Data accessed by HT shows that the police control room used to receive around 5,000 distress calls on an average every month.. The numbers have come down to less than 2,000 in the last few months.

Senior Delhi police officers said that they had launched a massive crackdown in the last two months and a large number of people have been arrested for snatching and robbery . Snatching was one of the most common crimes last year.(ANI)

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Updated on Jul 08, 2020 03:18 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent, New Delhi

Wife found dead after husband dies in Covid-19 isolation ward in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur

Unable to reconcile with the death of her husband, Swain reportedly tried to slit her wrist using her bangles. She then went to the isolation ward.

Ganjam has seen more than 1,800 Covid-19 cases, the highest in Odisha, in just about a month after two lakh migrant labourers came back to the district.(Getty Images (Representative Image))

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Published on Jul 04, 2020 07:44 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Bhubaneswar | ByDebabrata Mohanty | Edited by Meenakshi Ray

Disclose steps taken to convert railway coaches into quarantine facilities: HC to Centre

The petitioner also alleged that the inefficient management of the pandemic has resulted in the breakdown of the healthcare system within the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), leading to a spike in Covid-19 positive cases.

The petitioner had also prayed before that court that rapid antigen detection test (RADT) be conducted for Covid-19 patients.. (HT photo)

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Updated on Jun 23, 2020 07:47 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Mumbai | ByKanchan Chaudhari

Covid-19 patients in isolation coaches are all praise for Railways except for mosquitoes

Equipped with hand-held showers, mosquito nets, bio-toilets, power sockets, oxygen cylinders and more, the Covid-care coaches have it all to keep patients comfortable. But controlling the heat in the steel bodied non air-conditioned coaches has been a huge challenge, officials said.

An Indian Railways staff notes down details inside a train coach--temporarily converted into an isolation ward for coronavirus patients, at Anand Vihar railway station in New Delhi on Saturday.(Raj K Raj/HT Photo)

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Updated on Jun 23, 2020 02:03 PM IST

New Delhi | ByPress Trust of India | Posted by Kanishka Sarkar

Patient dies after family members unplug ventilator to plug in cooler at Kota hospital

The man was shifted to an isolation ward on June 15 as a safety measure after another patient in the ICU tested positive for the disease.

The doctor said action would be taken against whoever is found responsible in the probe report.( Praful Gangurde/HT Photo)(Representative Image)

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Published on Jun 20, 2020 12:01 PM IST

Kota | ByPress Trust of India

60 train coaches in Pune converted into Covid isolation cabins await patients

These coaches are currently kept at the Pune railway division’s Ghorpadi coach repair factory.

The Pune railway division had converted 60 coaches with a capacity of 1,080 beds into isolation wards earlier in April.(HT PHOTO)

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Published on Jun 16, 2020 04:10 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Pune | ByDheeraj Bengrut

Phone calls, chit-chat: How a Covid facility in Delhi is helping patients fight corona, isolation

At the Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital (RGSSH) here, doctors and nurses regularly interact with patients, making sure “they don’t lost touch with life” in the time of social distancing and quarantined existence.

RGSSH in east Delhi, with 500 beds, has been treating pandemic-affected patients since the outbreak in Delhi in March and has been a Covid-19 dedicated facility from the very beginning.(AP)

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Published on Jun 14, 2020 05:24 PM IST

New Delhi | ByPress Trust of India

BMC to start Covid-19 treatment in central government hospitals

The civic body plans to add 1,000 beds for Covid-19 patients in these five ESIC hospitals, including reserving 300 beds, or 30% of the total capacity, for intensive care units (ICUs).

Mumbai, India - June 11, 2020:Huge crowd at Dharavi during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the spread of the coronavirus in Mumbai(Satyabrata Tripathy/HT Photo)

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Updated on Jun 12, 2020 04:12 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Mumbai | ByRupsa Chakraborty

With 31 new cases, Haryana’s Covid-19 count climbs to 548

With this, there seems to be no let up in the number of cases in the state, which saw 66 fresh cases on Sunday and 77, the highest ever in a day till date, on Monday.

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Published on May 06, 2020 12:00 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

75 cases detected in Haryana, 29 in Sonepat alone

The state had on Sunday crossed the 400-mark and has reported 141 positive cases in just 48 hours

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Updated on May 04, 2020 11:53 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

As migrants return, states guard against Covid surge

The Bihar government has made a 21-day quarantine mandatory for all workers and has cancelled the leave of all doctors and health workers.

Like most other states, Uttar Pradesh has made a 14-day quarantine mandatory, after which each family will get food grains for 15 days.(Sonu Mehta/HT PHOTO)

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Updated on May 03, 2020 01:54 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Patna/Ranchi/Bhubaneshwar | ByArun Kumar/Sanjoy Dey/Debabrata Mohanty

417 new cases take Mumbai’s Covid-19 count to 6875; 20 die

The BMC said it discharged 45 patients from various hospitals on Thursday following their recovery from the disease, taking the number of such people to 1472.

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Published on May 01, 2020 05:21 AM IST

Mumbai | ByPress Trust of India

This Kolkata hospital offers ‘virtual visiting hours’ for Covid-19 patients

Doctors at the AMRI hospital said this will mitigate the anxiety of Covid-19 patients to a great extent.

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Updated on Apr 27, 2020 09:23 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Kolkata | ByHT Correspondent

What does it cost to treat a coronavirus patient? Here’s a break up

On an average, treatment of a normal Covid-19 carrier, without ventilators or other life-saving equipment, costs between ₹20,000 and 25,000 daily, says a doctor at Thiruvananthapuram medical college hospital.

The swab test of a suspected patient costs <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>4,500 (the Supreme Court fixed this fee for private labs after hearing experts and others). The price of the test kit alone is <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>3,000(Bloomberg)

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Updated on Apr 22, 2020 07:04 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Thiruvananthapuram | ByRamesh Babu

Mobile games rescued Sirsa siblings from boredom in isolation ward

They had tested positive for Covid-19 along with their mother.

Eight-year-old Arush (right) and his sister Aaina, 6, playing games on mobile phones during their time in the isolation ward of Sirsa civil hospital.(SOURCED)

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Updated on Apr 20, 2020 01:23 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | ByBhaskar Mukherjee, Hisar

Jharkhand woman tests Covid-19 positive after giving birth, state tally rises to 35

With the latest case, the number of Covid-19 cases in Jharkhand have risen to 35, according to the Union health ministry figures released on Saturday morning. These include two deaths from the disease. One fatality was reported from Ranchi while the other from Bokaro district. Both were senior citizens.

Firefighters sanitize a locality during the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, in Ranchi, Saturday. April 18, 2020.(PTI)

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Updated on Apr 18, 2020 01:35 PM IST

New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

Uttarakhand reports 3 new Covid-19 cases, 9-month-old tests positive

Dr. Dinesh Chauhan, additional chief medical officer, Dehradun, and the nodal officer for Covid-19 in the district, said that a doctor from the military hospital in Dehradun and a nine-month-old baby tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday.

All Covid-19 positive cases reported from Uttarakhand since April 2 are linked Jamaat attendees.(REUTERS)

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Updated on Apr 17, 2020 08:26 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Dehradun | BySuparna Roy

Now, UP’s Maharajganj, Hathras become corona-free districts

In Maharajganj, all six Covid-19 patients tested negative for the Sars-Cov-2 virus for the second time, district magistrate Ujjwal Kumar said.

The district administration decided to discharge all six patients from hospital and shifted them to a quarantine facility for observation, according to state government guidelines.(Virendra Singh Gosain/HT PHOTO)

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Updated on Apr 17, 2020 05:43 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Lucknow | ByRajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow

IIT -Ropar designs ‘WardBot’ to deliver food, medicines to Covid -19 patients

Researchers working on the project said its deployment in hospitals will help in minimising the risk of the frontline health staff getting infected with the deadly virus.

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Updated on Apr 17, 2020 04:27 PM IST

Chandigarh | ByPress Trust of India

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Latest from isolation ward

Uday was translocated to India from Waterberg Biosphere of South Africa on February 18.

Delhi reported 293 Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, according to the daily health bulletin of the state government. This was a sharp fall from Sunday’s numbers, when the city reported 429 infections

Woman was hospitalised after she tested positive on September 18; her son says she was suffering from hypertension also; first case of suicide by Covid patient in hospital in Himachal Pradesh

The Centre’s team of health experts will reach Jammu on Saturday

In a two-page letter to lieutenant governor (LG) Manoj Sinha, Digra said he was choosing to opt for VRS because of interference of ‘extra-institutional officials’ in the working of the hospital.

Victim’s mother says he was shifted to isolation ward on the pretext of being Covid positive where he passed away without being attended to

It was unprecedented for everyone when COVID -19 pandemic hit countries, business and people irrespective of class, income and boundaries.

A health insurance policy will not only make it easier for you to get proper medical facilities, but also save you from emptying your financial reservoirs.

Amitabh Bachchan, living in isolation for Covid-19 treatment, has shared how a patient doesn’t get to see another face for weeks since all doctors and nurses are covered in PPE kits.

Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) also directed commercial establishments like malls and offices to follow the same procedure with discarded protective personal equipment (PPE) from general public.

Says bed capacity in level-1 Covid control centres for non-critical patients had been increased to 1,200, and at level-2 centres (for severe cases) to 450

Data accessed by HT shows that the police control room used to receive around 5,000 distress calls on an average every month.. The numbers have come down to less than 2,000 in the last few months.

Unable to reconcile with the death of her husband, Swain reportedly tried to slit her wrist using her bangles. She then went to the isolation ward.

The petitioner also alleged that the inefficient management of the pandemic has resulted in the breakdown of the healthcare system within the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), leading to a spike in Covid-19 positive cases.

Equipped with hand-held showers, mosquito nets, bio-toilets, power sockets, oxygen cylinders and more, the Covid-care coaches have it all to keep patients comfortable. But controlling the heat in the steel bodied non air-conditioned coaches has been a huge challenge, officials said.

The man was shifted to an isolation ward on June 15 as a safety measure after another patient in the ICU tested positive for the disease.

These coaches are currently kept at the Pune railway division’s Ghorpadi coach repair factory.

At the Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital (RGSSH) here, doctors and nurses regularly interact with patients, making sure “they don’t lost touch with life” in the time of social distancing and quarantined existence.

The civic body plans to add 1,000 beds for Covid-19 patients in these five ESIC hospitals, including reserving 300 beds, or 30% of the total capacity, for intensive care units (ICUs).

With this, there seems to be no let up in the number of cases in the state, which saw 66 fresh cases on Sunday and 77, the highest ever in a day till date, on Monday.

The state had on Sunday crossed the 400-mark and has reported 141 positive cases in just 48 hours

The Bihar government has made a 21-day quarantine mandatory for all workers and has cancelled the leave of all doctors and health workers.

The BMC said it discharged 45 patients from various hospitals on Thursday following their recovery from the disease, taking the number of such people to 1472.

Doctors at the AMRI hospital said this will mitigate the anxiety of Covid-19 patients to a great extent.

On an average, treatment of a normal Covid-19 carrier, without ventilators or other life-saving equipment, costs between ₹20,000 and 25,000 daily, says a doctor at Thiruvananthapuram medical college hospital.

They had tested positive for Covid-19 along with their mother.

Dr. Dinesh Chauhan, additional chief medical officer, Dehradun, and the nodal officer for Covid-19 in the district, said that a doctor from the military hospital in Dehradun and a nine-month-old baby tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday.

In Maharajganj, all six Covid-19 patients tested negative for the Sars-Cov-2 virus for the second time, district magistrate Ujjwal Kumar said.

Researchers working on the project said its deployment in hospitals will help in minimising the risk of the frontline health staff getting infected with the deadly virus.

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