Morning Brief (ET Bureau)
Indulekha Aravind | 33:08 Min | June 03, 2021, 8:00 AM IST
Parents are anxious and states are ramping up facilities but is there any actual evidence that a third wave might affect children disproportionately? Dr. Chandrakant Lahariya, epidemiologist and public health expert, Dr. Rakshay Shetty, head, pediatric intensive care, Rainbow Children s Hospital, and ET s Teena Thacker ease your worries. Credits: Audio clips from ABP News Hindi, NDTV, The Atlantic, The Economic Times, IndiaTV, DD News.
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Dr Rakshay Shetty (Paediatric Intensivist from Rainbow Children’s Hospital, Marathahalli) rubbished the claims as mere speculation. “What we are likely to see is a spike in MISC cases from next month,” Dr Shetty said.
Big trouble in little Bengaluru
Big trouble in little Bengaluru
BySridhar VivanSridhar Vivan / Updated: May 16, 2021, 06:00 IST
Kids are eating unhealthy and lack exercise due to
lockdown and online classes. This is leading to obesity which in turn results in covid complications
If all work and no play can make little boys and girls dull, it is hard to imagine what no work and no play can do. With schools being shut for a while and as restrictions on gatherings and playgrounds continue, doctors have been observing a worrying trend kids are gaining weight.
Dr Lini
Balakrishnan (
Consultant Paediatrician, Motherhood Hospitals, Sarjapur Road) said recently she received a few parents and kids at her clinic for consultation on obesity. “The kids were two years old and their weight was over 16 kg as against the ideal weight for that age group of around 9 kg. The parents told me their children were stuck to their gadgets most of the time and also that consumption of junk or fa
NEW DELHI: At least two hospitals in Delhi sent out desperate SOS calls to authorities on Sunday to replenish their dwindling oxygen stocks as smaller facilities continued to battle an acute shortage of the live-saving gas amid spiralling coronavirus cases. Madhukar Rainbow Children s Hospital in Malviya on Sunday sounded an alarm about their depleting stocks around afternoon, saying 50 people, including four newborns, were at risk . An official of the hospital said in the afternoon there are around 80 patients, including those suffering from Covid-19, at the hospital. It also has 15 newborns, he said. There are 50 people, including four newborns, on oxygen support. They are at risk, he said. The hospital does not have a liquid oxygen storage tank and depends on oxygen cylinders from a private vendor.
Your covid queries answered
Dr Manu Chaudhary addressess some of the questions our readers had Does the second dose of vaccine have to be taken on the same arm as the first dose? It does not matter. You must try to take the shot on the non-dominant hand so that soreness doesn’t impact functionality. Why are doctors prescribing
hospital to get it? Remdesivir is used for a very specific indication - early on in the disease when patient is oxygen-dependent. There is shortage of the injection due to misuse. Hospitals and families are trying to secure the supply simultaneously so that it is available as soon as possible.