Hyderabad, Aug 18th: The chest hospital on Tuesday installed rapid influenza testing kits. The step was taken after a large number of people started coming for checkups though they were not infected. It happened soon after the government opened eight new centers for the collection of samples for HINI virus. These kits will reduce the burden on the Chest Hospital for scanning and collecting the test samples of hundred of swine flu suspects every day.
Meanwhile the superintendent of the Gandhi Hospital, Dr. Ashok said the number of patients seeking the test had doubled and more than 850 persons were scanned on Tuesday. The Hyderabad DHMO, Dr. Ch. Jayakumari, said that they had collected the samples of two air passengers from West Asia with symptoms of influenza. She revealed that a review meeting will be held on Wednesday with heath officials and the members of the IMA.
Meanwhile the superintendent of the Gandhi Hospital, Dr. Ashok said the number of patients seeking the test had doubled and more than 850 persons were scanned on Tuesday. The Hyderabad DHMO, Dr. Ch. Jayakumari, said that they had collected the samples of two air passengers from West Asia with symptoms of influenza. She revealed that a review meeting will be held on Wednesday with heath officials and the members of the IMA.
Shortage of faculty in hospitals Posted on 19-Aug-2009
Hyderabad, Aug 18th: Due to shortage of doctors in hospitals, the state government has decided to employ qualified doctor’s from private hospitals to teach in government medical colleges. There are at least 600 vacancies in these colleges. The minister for medical education, Mr. P. Sudarshan Re...
CBSC grading for SSC Posted on 20-Aug-2009
Hyderabad, Aug 19th: The state government has finally decided to adopt the CBSE pattern of grading for SSC public exams from this year. The committee constituted by the government to look into the issue studied both the CBSC and ICSE patterns and decided to go ahead with the former which it felt was ...
New courses to launch in ITIs Posted on 20-Aug-2009
Visakhapatnam, Aug 19th: The union minister for power, Mr. Sushil Kumar Shinde, will launch new courses in 12 industrial training institutes on Thursday through video conferencing mode from Scope Convention Center, New Delhi. The institutes were adopted by the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC...
Schools still to seek states nod Posted on 20-Aug-2009
Hyderabad, Aug 19th: Though a GO on regulating fee structure in private schools was issued by the government fifteen days ago, none of the school managements have approached the government so far to seek approval for their revised fee, which was hiked in the range of 40 percent to 100 percent this ye...
Fresh survey on ration cards Posted on 20-Aug-2009
Rajahmundry, Aug 19th: The East Godavari joint collector, Mr. Kona Sasidhar, called for conducting a fresh survey on ration cards, housing and pensions. He made it clear that the program was not meant for weeding out the bogus ration cards but it was being conducted only to collect information pertai...
Migrations continue in PR Posted on 20-Aug-2009
Rajahmundry, Aug 19th: Praja Rajyam Party is likely to witness an exodus of a few more leaders who are basically migrants from other parties in the days to come, while party sources maintain that their cadre base is strong in East and West Godavari districts. Senior leaders, Mr. Devender Goud, Mr. Ta...
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