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2020 Life in Mask: One for the market, one for the Metro, and one for the wedding down the lane
Hindustan Times | By Naina Arora
PUBLISHED ON DEC 30, 2020 12:35 PM IST
The Covid-19 pandemic made masks compulsory for everyone. From becoming a daily necessity to upgrading itself into a fashion statement, here’s all that a mask has been in the year 2020.
How HP lost control over Covid battle
Hindustan Times, Shimla | By Gaurav Bisht/Naresh K Thakur
UPDATED ON NOV 25, 2020 01:32 AM IST
More than 12,300 cases and 238 fatalities were recorded this month as compared to the previous highest tally of 8,938 cases in September since the outbreak.
Amid rising demand for treating Covid-19 patients, pharma authority caps price of medical oxygen
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Rhythma Kaul
UPDATED ON SEP 27, 2020 02:53 AM IST
The demand for medical oxygen has gone up almost four times, from 750 metric tonnes per day to 2,800 metric tonnes daily, causing a strain across the production and supply chain.
PM Modi relaxes SDRF cap to help states fight virus
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By HT Correspondents
UPDATED ON SEP 24, 2020 05:26 AM IST
The Prime Minister and the CMs discussed several issues and shared notes about their economic recovery. The leaders of Karnataka and Punjab flagged potential shortages of oxygen cylinders.
Govt drafts 5-point plan to check oxygen shortage
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Rhythma Kaul
UPDATED ON SEP 22, 2020 11:57 PM IST
Rajesh Bhushan, secretary at the Union health ministry, said in a briefing on Tuesday that while there is “sufficient” supply of medical oxygen at the moment, “we are thinking ahead”.
Covid-19: Amid high demand, tempo with oxygen cylinders stolen
Pune | By Press Trust of India | Posted by Arpan Rai
PUBLISHED ON SEP 13, 2020 02:42 PM IST
The complainant has a business of transporting such cylinders and he had parked his tempo outside his house on Thursday night from where it went missing a few hours later, Inspector Balaji Sontake of Mhalunge post said.
Climate change activist Ridhima Pandey writes to PM, says ‘worst nightmare was going to school with an oxygen cylinder’
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | By Neeraj Santoshi
UPDATED ON SEP 08, 2020 01:37 PM IST
Pandey has requested the PM to ensure that “an oxygen cylinder doesn’t become an essential part of the life of children, which we have to carry on our shoulders everywhere in the near future”.
Private hospitals in Mohali asked to increase critical Covid care bed capacity
Hindustan Times, Mohali | By HT Correspondent
PUBLISHED ON AUG 18, 2020 11:25 PM IST
Hospitals without infrastructure will be helped by the district administration to set up facilities for complicated or critical cases
Patients shifted as Bengaluru hospital runs out of oxygen supply
Bengaluru | By Press Trust of India| Posted by Susmita Pakrasi
PUBLISHED ON AUG 18, 2020 07:36 AM IST
Karnataka Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar tweeted that as soon as he came to know about the shortage of oxygen at the KIMS, a private hospital, directions were issued to shift patients by ambulance to Victoria, Bowring and Rajiv Gandhi hospitals in the city.
Arvind Kejriwal exhorts people to donate oximeters for villages
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Sweta Goswami
UPDATED ON AUG 15, 2020 11:49 PM IST
Digitally addressing AAP volunteers across the nation, Kejriwal said the Covid-19 situation of Delhi is under control, but the situation in other parts of the country, especially villages, is still bad.
AP acquires 1,088 state-of-the-art mobile clinics to provide emergency medicare to patients
Hindustan Times, Hyderabad | By Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
UPDATED ON JUL 01, 2020 03:06 PM IST
The ambulances will run as mobile clinics with advanced life support systems. The ambulances include 26 vehicles that will be used exclusively for neo-natal services equipped with incubators and other essential facilities for babies born with complications.
In the Covid-19 battle, Delhi turns to volunteers | HT Editorial
Hindustan Times | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON JUN 22, 2020 12:16 AM IST
Use them for contact tracing and monitoring those in home isolation
60 train coaches in Pune converted into Covid isolation cabins await patients
Hindustan Times, Pune | By Dheeraj Bengrut
PUBLISHED ON JUN 16, 2020 04:10 PM IST
These coaches are currently kept at the Pune railway division’s Ghorpadi coach repair factory.
RWAs create medical backup amidst tales of shortage of beds in Delhi
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON JUN 08, 2020 01:43 AM IST
The RWA decided to procure the machines on rent after a resident, Pawan Madhok, had a tough time getting his wife, who tested positive for Covid-19 earlier last week, admitted to a hospital after her oxygen saturation levels dropped to 80.
Medical supplies’ production scaled up, domestic manufacturers in focus
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Rhythma Kaul
UPDATED ON MAY 02, 2020 12:02 AM IST
The Centre has projected a demand of about 75,000 ventilators till June to manage critically ill Covid-19 cases in the country, said PD Vaghela, secretary, department of pharmaceuticals.
Ensure sanitisation of ambulances, Punjab health department tells civil surgeons
Hindustan Times, Ludhiana | By Mohit Khanna
UPDATED ON APR 30, 2020 08:35 PM IST
In a letter to civil hospitals, director health and family welfare, Punjab, said the ambulances used for ferrying Covid-19 patients should be disinfected as per the government guidelines. Items such as oxygen cylinder and medicine kit should be regularly checked to ensure they are not expired, it said
Navy manufactures portable multi-feed oxygen cylinder for Covid-19 patients
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON MAR 31, 2020 03:35 PM IST
Naval Dockyard, Visakhapatnam, has manufactured this portable multi-feed oxygen manifold ventilator, the Navy said in a statement.
‘Sending people to gas chambers’: Supreme Court raps government for manual scavenging
New Delhi | By Press Trust of India
UPDATED ON SEP 18, 2019 03:41 PM IST
The Constitution has provided that all human beings are equal but they are not being given equal facilities by the authorities, it said.
When the mountains call, be responsible, says Satara-based mountaineer Priyanka Mohite
Hindustan Times | By Sanchita Kalra
UPDATED ON JUN 17, 2019 08:44 PM IST
Mohite who recently climbed Mt Makalu, the fifth-highest peak in the world, talks to us about her achievement, receiving praises from Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar and importance of maintaining a clean environment on the mountains.
Five killed in oxygen cylinder blast in Jaunpur
Hindustan Times, Varanasi | By HT Correspondent
PUBLISHED ON MAR 29, 2019 12:39 PM IST
Five persons were killed and five others sustained critical injuries in an oxygen cylinder blast at a storehouse on the premises of house, in Jagdish Patti area, under Line Bazar police station, in Jaunpur on Thursday, police said. The injured has been admitted to a hospital.
Inability to ‘say no’ claimed life of sewer worker who died in Dabri
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Shiv Sunny
UPDATED ON SEP 20, 2018 09:15 AM IST
Anil had taken up sanitation work as rickshaw-pulling caused him body pain.
Most of Kerala under water; chief minister says it’s deluge after 174 killed in floods
Hindustan Times | By Ramesh Babu
UPDATED ON AUG 17, 2018 04:19 PM IST
Continuous rain, landslides and floods have claimed more than 150 lives so far and have brought the public transport system to a virtual halt.
High-pressure oxygen supplies, portable barracks for Chinese troops in Tibet
Beijing | By Press Trust of India
PUBLISHED ON AUG 14, 2018 04:18 PM IST
Chinese media have been highlighting training preparations and combat readiness of PLA troops in Tibet in recent months. According to the official People’s Liberation Army website, all frontline training troops and border outposts have been equipped with oxygen generators and oxygen cylinders.
Residents pledge to plant more trees on Earth Day
hindustan times | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON APR 22, 2018 11:29 PM IST
Deepak Gaur, known as the ‘Tree Man’, championed a drive on the day to gift trees and make residents plant them
I was framed in Gorakhpur hospital deaths tragedy says Dr Kafeel
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON APR 19, 2018 07:33 PM IST
Dr Kafeel, who underwent ECG and Echo tests, said doctors jailed in connection with the BRD incident were innocent. He said former principal of BRD Hospital was suffering from liver cirrhosis and other complications
MRI death at Nair Hospital: BMC blames ward boy, hospital help
Hindustan Times | By Eeshanpriya M S
UPDATED ON APR 14, 2018 02:46 PM IST
The inquiry report, which was submitted to Municipal Commissioner Ajoy Mehta on Thursday, states that the hospital staff failed to follow procedure, due to which Maru was able to carry an oxygen cylinder into the MRI room.
Overburdened facilities to blame for MRI death at Nair Hospital: Mumbai civic body official
HIndustan Times | By Eeshanpriya MS
PUBLISHED ON APR 08, 2018 12:38 AM IST
BMC official says they aim to reduce burden on civic hospitals, replace private guards with police