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Congress will make Island skin show an election issue in Udupi: Poojary

February 8, 2012

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Udupi, February 8: Senior Congress leader Janardhan Poojary has said that his party would make the skin show and the flow of liquour and drug at the recently concluded 'Sprink Zouk" festival at the St. Mary's island an issue in the coming by-election to the Udupi-Chikmagalur Loksabaha constituency.


Speaking at a press conferene here on Tuesday, Mr. Poojary also demanded the resignation of Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda for being unable to stop the misdeeds at the island in the name of tourism promotion.


"It was shocking that Mr. Gowda and local MLA Raghupathy Bhat were defending the obscenities after the video clips of the festival was telecast on television channels. "Everyone is agitated over the developments. Mr. Gowda should step down," Mr. Poojary said.

He also questioned the logic of the district administratioin to allow the tourists to say at the beach overnight when nobody is allowed to stay there after 6 pm. "What was the need to give special permission to the festival where drugs and liqour flowed freely," he said.

He also hit out at the deputy commissioner Dr. M.T. Reju for allowing the illegal activities at the island. Taking offence to the Chief Minister's statement defending the revelry by the tourists at the island, Mr. Poojary said: "You (Gowda) cannot fool the people by such misleading statements."


He also asked to know who has benefited from the festival which has fetched only Rs. 5 lakh for the district administration.


He also took umbrage at the so called moral police of the saffron brigade and said the BJP was gearing up for election by raking up emotional issues. "Prabhakar Bhat's speech at Uppinangady and the flag hoisting incident at Sindagi shows that the BJP is now on poll mode."


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April 12,2020

Mangaluru, Apr 12: Swift and strict action by the District Administration has resulted in the district achieving ‘Clean’ week with no new cases of COVID-19 reported for the seventh day in a row.

Meanwhile, in a happy coincidence, the district’s only infant allegedly affected – a ten month old child – was totally cured and discharged from the hospital along with infant’s mother and grandmother who were considered to the primary contacts. They are never tested positive for the virus, it is reported. Health experts attributed this to their natural immunity.

The child is said to have contracted the infection during a family visit to Kasargod, which has turned in to a Covid-19 hot spot. The family which hails from Sajipanadu in Bantwal-taluk had been kept in isolation ever since the child had tested positive on March 25. The quarantine was extended to the entire village as a preventive measure and the District Administration undertook the responsibility to providing essential supplies.

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August 3,2020

Bengaluru, Aug 3: A building of Bengaluru's civic body, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), on Broadway Road in Shivajinagar, is being developed into a COVID dedicated hospital with 200 beds, Karnataka Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar said on Sunday.

The hospital will be functional in two weeks, said Sudhakar.

"BBMP building in Broadway Road is converted into Covid hospital. Setting up of infrastructure like beds, ventilators, oxygen etc is underway.

All necessary staff for this hospital including doctors, nurses and paramedical staff have been already deployed and the work is on fast track," Sudhakar tweeted.

He also thanked Infosys foundation and it's Chairperson Sudha Murthy for immediately responding to government's request and providing infrastructure for this hospital.

In a tweet, Sudhakar thanked the doctors for their service to combat COVID-19 in the state.
"These doctors have extended helping hand in these corona times without any expectations. I salute their spirit of service and professionalism," Minister said in a tweet.

According to the Union Health Ministry, there are 1,34,819 COVID-19 cases in the state. 

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March 22,2020

Mangaluru, Mar 22: A video being circulated in the social media purportedly of a man infected with COVID-19 at a hospital here is fake, its authorities said.

The video which shows a youth, dressed in pink trousers and wearing a mask, struggling to breathe on a blue hospital bed, had gone viral after which the Wenlock hospital issued a clarification.

The video started circulating after Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner made public Sunday that a person has tested positive for coronavirus at the hospital.

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"A video of a patient convulsing on a hospital bed is being circulated on social media. This video is not of Wenlock hospital. Besides, we do not use blue beds," the hospital said in a statement, adding that they will file a complaint with the police regarding the video.

The first COVID-19 case in the district was confirmed at the hospital on Sunday.

The 22-year old man who came here from Dubai was tested positive and is under treatment in the isolation ward.

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