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As directed by the State government, the Mangaluru City Corporation has formed ward-level COVID-19 task force committees in 60 wards of the city for monitoring COVID-19 patients and their primary contacts. The committee will be facilitating testing, arranging for ration for patients and also taking micro containment steps.
Corporation Commissioner Akshy Sridhar said that the ward-level task force committees will comprise local councillors, nodal officers from the corporation, multi-purpose workers and 10 volunteers each. They will be attached to the Urban Primary Health Centre (UPHC) that covers about seven wards. Each one of the 10 UPHCs will have a team of officers from the corporation who will coordinate with the ward-level committees.
‘Do not keep people waiting for long outside vaccination centres’
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Give information of vaccine stock early to people, says MLA
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Give information of vaccine stock early to people, says MLA
While asking the authorities concerned to give preference to those who come to vaccination centres for their second dose of COVID-19 vaccine, Mangaluru City South MLA D. Vedavyas Kamath on Wednesday said that information about availability of vaccine should be given to people early and they should not be made to wait for long outside vaccination centres.
Expressing anguish over people waiting outside the AYUSH Block of the Government Wenlock Hospital since 8 a.m., Mr. Kamath said,
Over 1,000 units of blood collected in city
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Responding to a call for blood donation, a good number of youth turned up at the blood donation camp organised by the Bharatiya Janata Party in the city and Bantwal on Friday.
Nearly 1,000 units of blood was collected at the blood donation camp organised at the TV Ramana Pai Conventional Hall in the city. The camp was organised jointly by the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Mangaluru South Assembly unit and Sevanjali Trust.
BJP Mangaluru South Unit president Vijaykumar Shetty said that after the call by the State unit president Nalin Kumar Kateel, party activists, right at the booth level, were asked to mobilise volunteers for blood donation. Buses and tempos were provided to bring volunteers from their places and drop them back after blood donation.
Foundation stone laid for girls hostel at Kodialbail
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Foundation stone for the pre- and post-matric girls hostel at Kodialbail on the site of razed Kudmul Rangarao Girls Hostel was laid on the occasion of Babu Jagjivan Ram’s 114th birth anniversary celebrations here on Monday.
The new hostel would come up at an estimated cost of ₹9.85 crore in about two years catering to the needs of girl students in the district. Member of Legislative Assembly D. Vedavyasa Kamath, Zilla Panchayat president Meenakshi Shanthigod, vice-president Kasturi Panja, Mayor Premanand Shetty, Deputy Mayor Sumangala, Deputy Commissioner K.V. Rajendra, Zilla Panchayat Chief Executive Officer Kumara and others were present on the occasion.
MUDA takes up rejuvenation of Kadri Kaibattalu pond
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It was revived 13 years ago, but is now filled with silt
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The pond in Kadri Kaibattalu area is among two waterbodies in the locality that Mangaluru Urban Development Authority took up for development on Wednesday. | Photo Credit:
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It was revived 13 years ago, but is now filled with silt
The Mangaluru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) on Wednesday launched the work of rejuvenating Kadri Kaibattalu pond and the nearby Jogimath pond under its lake rejuvenation programme.
The pond in Kadri Kaibattalu, which was revived 13 years ago by the residents at Doctors Colony, is now filled with silt and muddy water.