Health dept intensifies surveillance across TN Chennai: With fever cases surging across Tamil Nadu following the seasonal rains, the health department has stepped up surveillance and ordered the setting up of dedicated fever wards in govt hospitals to manage the influx of patients and prevent severe cases.Health officials said cases of dengue, chikungunya, typhoid, leptospirosis…
arunraj tvk health minister Chennai: Nearly 16 in every 100 people in Tamil Nadu are now above 60 years of age, and the proportion is expected to rise to one in five over the next decade, said health minister K G Arunraj on Saturday.At World Population Day events, Arunraj said the state would focus on…
CM Mohan Charan Majhi pays tribute to the deceased Bhubaneswar: A govt probe into the Tamil Nadu ammonia gas leak tragedy has revealed an Aadhaar card racket where multiple labourers have been securing jobs using one or even fictitious cards.Turns out, an Odia woman named Purnima Juanga, who supposedly died in the gas leak, was…
Long waiting times at govt hospital in Chennai Pushpa.Narayan@timesofindia.comWith about 3,000 outpatients visiting Tamil Nadu’s govt medical college hospitals each day, most spending two hours or more in queues at registration counters, the state plans to introduce a mobile app that will allow appointment booking.“We hope the app will help us tackle overcrowding, especially at…
