12 May 2021
A large number of migrant workers arriving from Maharashtra rest outside Patna Junction railway station, on 10 April. In comparison to the first exodus of migrant workers in March 2020, this time, the Bihar government seems even more ill prepared to test and monitor returning residents. Santosh Kumar / Hindustan Times / Getty Images
A large number of migrant workers arriving from Maharashtra rest outside Patna Junction railway station, on 10 April. In comparison to the first exodus of migrant workers in March 2020, this time, the Bihar government seems even more ill prepared to test and monitor returning residents. Santosh Kumar / Hindustan Times / Getty Images
Rural western Uttar Pradesh grapples with Covid-19
By IANS |
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Fri, May 7 2021 19:06 IST |
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IIM Lucknow, Safdarjung Hospital put off events on Covid outbreak.. Image Source: IANS News
Lucknow, May 7 : After the spread of Covid-19 in urban pockets, the infection is gathering pace across rural areas in western Uttar Pradesh with villages in Muzaffarnagar district being the worst-hit. However, the number of villages impacted is yet to be officially included in the data compiled by the state government.
After the recent UP panchayat elections, the situation in the villages has worsened resulting in a large number of deaths. Most of the people are suffering from high fever. People are also facing breathing problems in certain areas. Patients infected with the virus have not yet been tested in most rural areas. Their overall health condition would be known only after undergoing testing.
UP govt orders probe into vaccine hotchpotch
Shamli, Apr 9 (UNI) The Uttar Pradesh government on Friday ordered a probe into the administration of anti-rabies injection to three elderly women in place of COVID-19 vaccine jab.
According to reports, the three women Saroj (70), a resident of Saravagyan area, Anarkali (72) and Satyavati (60), both residents of Railway Mandi area came for COVID-19 vaccination at the Community Health Centre (CHC) in Kandhla town on Thursday, but Saroj started feeling dizziness after the vaccine shot.
Her family members took her to a private doctor for check-up where it was found that she had been wrongly administered a Rabies vaccine. Later, the other two women also came to know through their OPD slips that they had been given anti-rabies jabs.
District Magistrate orders inquiry into incident
In a bizarre incident, three elderly women were recently administered rabies vaccine when they went to get COVID-19 jab in Kandhla area of Shamli in western Uttar Pradesh.
According to local sources, the incident came to light when one of the women felt side-effects such as dizziness and nausea after being inoculated. When she approached a private doctor, she showed him the slip handed over to her at the community health centre. It mentioned she was given rabies vaccine.
Confirming the incident, Jasjeet Kaur, District Magistrate, Shamli, said, “The affected women are in their late 60s and early 70s. Instead of approaching the COVID vaccine OPD [outpatient department], they stood in the line at general OPD and said ‘
India lost seven times more doctors than soldiers in 2020
India lost seven times more doctors than soldiers in 2020
At least 734 doctors died in their line of duty while 106 personnel of the security forces made supreme sacrifices in the last year.
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The bigger battle in the year 2020 was fought in hospitals, where several frontline health workers lost their lives in the line of duty during the coronavirus pandemic. The lives lost by the Indian doctors were seven times more than the casualties in the Indian armed forces in 2020. At least 734 doctors died in their line of duty while 106 personnel of the security forces made supreme sacrifices in the last year.