K.B. Shanappa. File.
Mr. Shanappa had led many workers’ struggles, especially those at ACC cement factory and Shahabad cement factory in Kalaburagi district
Former Minister and Rajya Sabha member K.B. Shanappa, 83, passed away at District General Hospital attached to Gulbarga Institute of Medical Sciences (GIMS) at about 3.30 p.m. on Sunday. He had tested positive for COVID-19 and was admitted to the State-run hospital after he developed complications a few days ago. He is survived by his wife, three daughters and two sons.
Born at a Dalit family in Ravoor village, Chittapur taluk in Kalaburagi district, in 1938, Mr. Shanappa grew as a communist leader and was associated with the Communist Party of India (CPI). He had led many workers’ struggles, especially those at ACC cement factory and Shahabad cement factory in Kalaburagi district. He had contested 1985 Assembly Elections from Shahabad (reserved for SC) constituency as a CPI candidate and won it with a slender margin o
Join hands to effectively deal with virus, Ministers urges people’s representatives
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Minister for Mines and Geology Murugesh Nirani has urged people’s representatives, cutting across party lines, to join hands together to effectively deal with COVID-19-related issues and save patients suffering from coronavirus. He also urged them not to politicise the pandemic.
Mr. Nirani, who has been newly appointed Minister in-charge for Kalaburagi district, addressing a press conference here on Monday, said that there is no shortage of beds. However, the district is reeling under an acute shortage of medical oxygen which would be addressed immediately, he added.
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As health facilities across Kalaburagi, particularly those in the private sector, started falling short of medical oxygen to treat COVID-19 patients, six patients, five COVID-19 patients and one suspected to have contracted COVID-19, died in the last 24 hours. The cause of two of these deaths was said to be oxygen scarcity.
As per information provided by sources in the Health Department, two COVID-19 patients, a man and a woman, died at Anand Hospital in Kalaburagi on Monday due to oxygen shortage. Hospital’s Managing Director Anand also said that dearth of oxygen was the cause of death.
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Health Minister appeals to the people not to panic, but take precautions
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Health and Family Welfare Minister K. Sudhakar holding a meeting on COVID-19 at the Zilla Panchayat conference hall in Kalaburagi on Saturday. | Photo Credit:
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Health Minister appeals to the people not to panic, but take precautions
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In an effort to remove the public fear surrounding COVID-19, Minister for Health and Family Welfare K. Sudhakar has said that the death rate had fallen in the second wave of the pandemic as compared to the first wave last year and appealed to the people not to panic, but take precautions.
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Facilitating online sales of Remdesivir may help tackle hoarding, says doctor
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Facilitating online sales of Remdesivir may help tackle hoarding, says doctor
Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai, speaking to media representatives at Humnabad in Bidar district, had said that there was no dearth of either drugs, including Remdesivir, or beds in hospitals for treating COVID-19 patients.
However, a video clip showing relatives of COVID-19 patients requesting the staff at Bidar Institute of Medical Sciences to treat patients on the hospital floor itself, if there were no beds available, that went viral on Monday tells a different story. The staff are seen turning down the request as the hospital was full.