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Shripad Naik inaugurates 3 tesla MRI machine at Yenepoya Hospital

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August 14, 2017

Mangaluru, Aug 14: Shripad Yesso Naik, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for AYUSH, on Sunday exhorted the modern medicine practitioners to explore treatment methods mentioned in AYUSH and adopt integrated treatment approach.

Inaugurating the 3 Tesla MRI and Cath Lab Facility at the Yenepoya Medical College Hospital here on Sunday, Mr. Naik said that traditional systems of medicine have played an important part in maintaining the health of people.

He said that each system of medicine should not consider the other as a competitor but as a fellow soldier in the fight against illness.

Expressing concern over shortage of medical professionals, he said the National Health Policy 2017, brought out by the Union government, gave impetus to public healthcare.

“There is a need to bring down treatment costs for less-privileged people. Medical institutions must share the responsibility. The health policy aims at making optimum use of available resources to make healthcare facilities accessible to all. It also seeks to raise the public health expenditure to 2.5% of the GDP,” Naik said.

The minister said there were ample opportunities for research in the traditional systems of medicine such as Ayurveda and Unani.

On the occasion, he released a booklet on dengue awareness, published by the Department of Ayush.

Chancellor of Yenepoya University Yenepoya Abdulla Kunhi said that the university was working towards building an integrated treatment complex on its campus in Deralakatte.

University Vice-Chancellor M. Vijaykumar said that the Yenepoya Medical College Hospital was the third one in the Sstate where 3 Tesla MRI facility was available.

NRI Entrepreneur B R Shetty, who was the guest on the occasion, announced a global conference on Ayush in Dubai in November. He lauded the Yenepoya Medical and Charitable Hospital for providing healthcare to the underprivileged.

IAE and YMK Foundation Chairman Y Mohamed Kunhi,  Registrar Dr G Shreekumar Menon and Yenepoya Medical and Charitable Hospital Chief Operating Officer Dr Mohammed Amin Wani were present.

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May 15,2020

Mangaluru, May 15: Dakshina Kannada Superintendent of Police on Friday warned those who are opposing quarantine to either go for it or face legal action under Epidemic Diseases Act.

In a release here on Friday, Mr B M Laxmi Prasad said that schools and hostels have been identified for quarantining those who arrive from other states. Those, who return, will be quarantined in the respective Gram Panchayat/local bodies’ jurisdiction. The public should not panic over the quarantine facility.

The quarantine facility has been introduced in the interest of the general public. If anyone opposes or protests against such facility, then legal action will be initiated against them, he warned.

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March 25,2020

Udupi, Mar 25: Fearing Corona infection a 56-year-old man has committed suicide over in Udupi. 

The deceased has been identified as Gopalkrishna Madivala.

He was a KSRTC bus driver and was currently performing a duty to train new drivers.

He suspected his friend had contracted COVID-19 and as he had a close association with him, he feared he too will be infected and hence hanged himself on a tree.

Although symptoms of Corona infection do not appear to him, he left behind a death note which stated that he resorted to the extreme step over suspicion of having been infected by a corona trait of a friend. 

Recently, the first COVID-19 positive case in Udupi where a 34-year-old man has been tested positive.

A press release issued by the District Health and Family Welfare Officer on Wednesday said that the man had come from Dubai to Udupi district on March 18.

Since he showed symptoms of COVID-19, he was admitted to the District Government Hospital on March 23. His throat swab was sent for test and the preliminary report stated that he had tested positive for COVID-19.

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July 22,2020

Bengaluru,  Jul 22: Karnataka Congress president DK Shivakumar on Tuesday said that the state government should give details of the amount it spent on migrants and labourers during the coronavirus crisis if it is transparent.

"The image of Karnataka has come to a very rotten position. We all know that Karnataka has failed in sorting out the problem. Let them (the state government) tell what has been the amount spent on the labour, migrants, food kits on the health department. We want an account (of the expenditure) if they are so transparent," Shivakumar said.

He said that the state government should have approached the hospitals for treating COVID-19 patients and if any hospital refused, a message should have been given that the government would take it over.

He also accused the state government of corruption.

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