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World Health Day: Kasturba Hospital offers 30% concession for a week

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April 6, 2012

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Manipal, April 6: The Kasturba Hospital will observe World Health Day for a week beginning April 7 with emphasis on preventive health.

In a press release issued here, Chief Operating Officer and Medical Superintendent of the hospital R.R. Pulgaonkar said a 30 per cent concession would be provided for preventive health check-ups at the hospital from April 7 to 14 to all those who wished to avail the facility.

Dr. Pulgaonkar said the hospital was extending this facility in keeping with the theme of the World Health Day this year. The theme is: “Good health adds life to years” with focus on ageing and health. “A number of packages have been listed to be provided for the benefit of the people,” he said.

A Health Day Special Assessment Screening Package for senior citizens (60 years and above) will also be available. The hospital will be offering organ specific screening packages for kidney, heart, liver and lungs.

There is a Special Screening Package for people with sleep apnea (snoring) as it can turn very risky for the patient. Complete health check-ups such as “basic”, “executive”, and “comprehensive” will be offered at concessional price during the week.

Eight out of every 10 deaths in India are caused by non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes in urban India. In rural India, six out of every 10 deaths are caused by NCDs, the release said.

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May 1,2020

New Delhi, May 1: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Friday issued an order under the Disaster Management Act, 2005 to further extend the lockdown for a further period of two weeks beyond May 4.

The current lockdown period is scheduled to end on May 3.

"After a comprehensive review and in view of the lockdown measures having led to significant gains, the COVID-19 situation in the country, Ministry of Home Affairs issued an order under the Disaster Management Act, 2005, today, to further extend the lockdown for a further period of two weeks beyond May 4, 2020," read the order of the Home Ministry.

In red zones and outside containment zones, certain activities including plying of cycle rickshaws and auto-rickshaws, taxis and cab aggregators, intra-district and inter-district plying of buses and barber shops, spas and salons will be prohibited in addition to those prohibited throughout India.

A limited number of activities will remain prohibited across the country, irrespective of the zone, including travel by air, rail, metro and inter-state movement by road, running of schools, colleges, and other educational and training/coaching institutions, the order said.

This came after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's meeting with chief ministers of several states last month where some of them suggested extension of lockdown.

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May 2,2020

Bengaluru, May 2: Former chief minister and Congress leader Siddaramaiah have urged the state government to arrange free-transport facilities to those stranded labourers and their family members to return their native places.

In a statement issued here on Friday, the former chief minister criticised the State Government for having decided to collect bur fare from them, ''three-times more than the regular fare''.

Stating that the migrant labourers, who had been stranded ever since lockdown had been clamped in the entire country are not in a position to pay for their travel, Siddaramaiah urged the state government to treat them with human face.

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April 4,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 4: The state government have taken all measures to ensure availability of essential supplies including foodgrains, in the state, Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa informed here on Saturday.

He was speaking to newsmen, after holding a meeting of the MLAs, MPs and others, where he had briefed over the measures taken by the state government to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 disease.

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