Noida/Greater Noida: Many residents who have been trying to contact the control room for Covid-related information have alleged that most calls go unanswered, unless they ring from unidentified numbers.
Contact information and other details provided on government portals are also creating a lot of confusion among people.
For instance, on the website of Gautam Budh Nagar district administration, Anurag Bhargava is still the chief medical officer and his mobile number also appears on the site. Bhargava was transferred to Ghaziabad in April last year.
According to the residents, phone numbers of some of the hospital are also incorrect.
Residents’ welfare associations (RWAs) have flagged the problem before the state government.
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GHAZIABAD: Testing at MMG Hospital has been affected as eight out of 10 staffers involved in sample collection have contracted Covid-19. While more than 600 tests were being conducted earlier, the centre is now managing less than 300, partly due to shortage of testing kits.
“Testing has been severely affected. Some of our nurses are also down with Covid, which has affected overall work in the hospital, which includes vaccination,” said Dr Anurag Bhargava, MMG’s chief medical superintendent.
An official from MMG hospital later said there was a shortage of viral transport media (VTM), which is part of the test, and a requisition has been sent to the health department. “Though RT-PCR or antigen kits are available, it is VTM that we are short on. So, we are not able to conduct as many tests as we wanted to,” said the official. According to sources, the hospital has less than 100 vials of VTM at present.
One year after Noida super-spreader incident, private company fights legal battle
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New Delhi, March 17 : Exactly one year after a United Kingdom-based auditor and two other staff members of a private company in Noida allegedly set off a chain reaction of Covid-19 infection among employees and their family members, the organisation is now fighting a legal battle.
External auditor John Humphreys landed in Delhi on March 11, took a flight directly to Dehradun and went to Selakui town.
From there, he had come to Noida on March 15 and left for the UK four days later. While in Noida, he visited the company on March 15 and met 10-20 employees.
By grouping adolescents with adults, India’s surveys are routinely misestimating their health
One major attempt to correct this has been a one-off. Representational image. | Ahmad Masood/Reuters
India routinely misestimates thinness, overweight and stunting among adolescents because official data sources do not gather sufficient data specifically on adolescents, clubbing them instead with data on adults. This holds true across states, rural-urban residence and wealth groups, a June 2020
study says, showing up data gaps with wide-ranging implications for policy and programme design.
The key
National Family Health Survey does not collect health and nutrition data for school-age children (6-year to 9-year-old) and
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