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"Medical Seats Should Not Go To Waste When Country Faces Shortage Of Doctors": Supreme Court
Precious medical seats should not go to waste when the country was facing acute shortage of doctors, the Supreme Court on Friday said and directed the authorities to hold fresh counselling for filling up the vacant seats.
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China's Covid Mass Testing Mantra Is Building A Waste Mountain
Hazmat-suited workers poke plastic swabs down millions of throats in China each day, leaving bins bursting with medical waste that has become the environmental and economic levy of a zero-Covid strategy.
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Massive Volumes Of Covid Hospital Waste Threaten Health, Environment: WHO
Discarded syringes, used test kits and old vaccine bottles from the COVID-19 pandemic have piled up to create tens of thousands of tonnes of medical waste, threatening human health and the environment, a World Health Organization report said.
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Video Shows Madhya Pradesh Plant Washing Used Covid Safety Kits For "Resale"
In a shocking case of violation of Covid protocols, a video reportedly from Madhya Pradesh's Satna district shows used Covid safety gears being washed for resale by a bio-waste disposal plant.
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US, Japan, EU Space Agencies Will Host Hackathon to Study COVID-19 Impact on Environment
Space agencies of the US, EU, and Japan are organising a hackathon aimed at studying the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on the environment.
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Blog: Covid - Treat The Second Wave As An Emergency
Today, as the fear of a second wave engulfs us, it seems we have learnt nothing from how the world wasted February 2020, allowed COVID-19 to spread. Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned yesterday that if we did not act fast, this time rural India could be severely hit and if that were to happen our medical system would collapse.
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Safety Gear, Medical Waste Float In Chhattisgarh's Flooded COVID-19 Ward
A few hours of heavy rain on Friday flooded a government hospital's COVID-19 isolation ward in Chhattisgarh, where coronavirus cases have been on rise since September. The rain also disrupted the hospital's power supply forcing the staff to shift nine patients - six of them suspected to have Covid and three in need of oxygen - to another floor.
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Segregation Of Covid Waste Must To Avoid Coronavirus Spread: NGT
Segregation of COVID-19 biomedical waste from other biomedical waste is a must to avoid further spread of the infection and its adverse impact on public health, a bench of the National Green Tribunal headed by its Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel said. The court added that mass awareness must be created on the subject through the Doordarshan a...
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"As Good As Dungeon": Gujarat Court On Hospital After High COVID-19 Deaths
Human life is precious and cannot be wasted, the Gujarat High Court said on Saturday, pulling up the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad, one of the largest in the country, for its handling of COVID-19 cases and patients. Labeling the hospital that has recorded over 350 COVID-19 deaths a "dungeon", the court pointed out that "poor and helpless patients had...
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'Scientists Beyond Borders', An IIT Guwahati Group Develops Low Cost Device To Disinfect Gloves, Masks
A research team at IIT Guwahati has developed a low-cost UVC light-based disinfectant box for disinfecting disposable medical accessories like gloves, masks etc. along with disinfecting the household wastes before going to the community bins.
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COVID-19: Researchers Develop Smart Dustbin for Contactless Waste Collection at Hospitals
Researchers have developed an interactive dustbin that can be installed in hospitals and medical centres dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic for contactless waste collection and disposal, leading to a safer environment for frontline workers.
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UP Medical College Fined Rs 10 Lakh For Improper Medical Waste Disposal
The National Green Tribunal has slapped an interim penalty of Rs 10 lakh on Lucknow-based King George's Medical University (KGMU) for failing to ensure proper disposal of medical waste and other environmental norms.
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Only Medical Waste, Says Kolkata Police After Panic About Dead Babies
For a few hours on Sunday, the city of Kolkata was unwittingly sucked into a macabre comedy of errors. Hours after the city's mayor declared that the bodies of 14 newborn babies were found in an empty, overgrown plot of land on the city's southern fringe, doctors who opened up plastic bags containing the so-called bodies for post mortem found only ...
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Before Taking Mob Victim To Hospital, Rajasthan Cops Arranged Cow Shelter
The man who died in Rajasthan's Alwar after being beaten by a mob on suspicion of cattle smuggling, was in police custody for three hours before he was taken to a hospital early on Saturday, NDTV has found. The police arranged for vehicles to take the seized cows to a shelter, visited the police station - a stone's throw from the hospital -- and ev...
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World Kidney Day 2018: 5 Foods You Must Eat For Healthy Kidneys
World Kidney Day 2018: Kidneys help filter waste materials not only from food but from medications, and toxic substances.
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"Medical Seats Should Not Go To Waste When Country Faces Shortage Of Doctors": Supreme Court
Precious medical seats should not go to waste when the country was facing acute shortage of doctors, the Supreme Court on Friday said and directed the authorities to hold fresh counselling for filling up the vacant seats.
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China's Covid Mass Testing Mantra Is Building A Waste Mountain
Hazmat-suited workers poke plastic swabs down millions of throats in China each day, leaving bins bursting with medical waste that has become the environmental and economic levy of a zero-Covid strategy.
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Massive Volumes Of Covid Hospital Waste Threaten Health, Environment: WHO
Discarded syringes, used test kits and old vaccine bottles from the COVID-19 pandemic have piled up to create tens of thousands of tonnes of medical waste, threatening human health and the environment, a World Health Organization report said.
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Video Shows Madhya Pradesh Plant Washing Used Covid Safety Kits For "Resale"
In a shocking case of violation of Covid protocols, a video reportedly from Madhya Pradesh's Satna district shows used Covid safety gears being washed for resale by a bio-waste disposal plant.
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US, Japan, EU Space Agencies Will Host Hackathon to Study COVID-19 Impact on Environment
Space agencies of the US, EU, and Japan are organising a hackathon aimed at studying the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on the environment.
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Blog: Covid - Treat The Second Wave As An Emergency
Today, as the fear of a second wave engulfs us, it seems we have learnt nothing from how the world wasted February 2020, allowed COVID-19 to spread. Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned yesterday that if we did not act fast, this time rural India could be severely hit and if that were to happen our medical system would collapse.
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Safety Gear, Medical Waste Float In Chhattisgarh's Flooded COVID-19 Ward
A few hours of heavy rain on Friday flooded a government hospital's COVID-19 isolation ward in Chhattisgarh, where coronavirus cases have been on rise since September. The rain also disrupted the hospital's power supply forcing the staff to shift nine patients - six of them suspected to have Covid and three in need of oxygen - to another floor.
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Segregation Of Covid Waste Must To Avoid Coronavirus Spread: NGT
Segregation of COVID-19 biomedical waste from other biomedical waste is a must to avoid further spread of the infection and its adverse impact on public health, a bench of the National Green Tribunal headed by its Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel said. The court added that mass awareness must be created on the subject through the Doordarshan a...
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"As Good As Dungeon": Gujarat Court On Hospital After High COVID-19 Deaths
Human life is precious and cannot be wasted, the Gujarat High Court said on Saturday, pulling up the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad, one of the largest in the country, for its handling of COVID-19 cases and patients. Labeling the hospital that has recorded over 350 COVID-19 deaths a "dungeon", the court pointed out that "poor and helpless patients had...
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'Scientists Beyond Borders', An IIT Guwahati Group Develops Low Cost Device To Disinfect Gloves, Masks
A research team at IIT Guwahati has developed a low-cost UVC light-based disinfectant box for disinfecting disposable medical accessories like gloves, masks etc. along with disinfecting the household wastes before going to the community bins.
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COVID-19: Researchers Develop Smart Dustbin for Contactless Waste Collection at Hospitals
Researchers have developed an interactive dustbin that can be installed in hospitals and medical centres dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic for contactless waste collection and disposal, leading to a safer environment for frontline workers.
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UP Medical College Fined Rs 10 Lakh For Improper Medical Waste Disposal
The National Green Tribunal has slapped an interim penalty of Rs 10 lakh on Lucknow-based King George's Medical University (KGMU) for failing to ensure proper disposal of medical waste and other environmental norms.
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Only Medical Waste, Says Kolkata Police After Panic About Dead Babies
For a few hours on Sunday, the city of Kolkata was unwittingly sucked into a macabre comedy of errors. Hours after the city's mayor declared that the bodies of 14 newborn babies were found in an empty, overgrown plot of land on the city's southern fringe, doctors who opened up plastic bags containing the so-called bodies for post mortem found only ...
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Before Taking Mob Victim To Hospital, Rajasthan Cops Arranged Cow Shelter
The man who died in Rajasthan's Alwar after being beaten by a mob on suspicion of cattle smuggling, was in police custody for three hours before he was taken to a hospital early on Saturday, NDTV has found. The police arranged for vehicles to take the seized cows to a shelter, visited the police station - a stone's throw from the hospital -- and ev...
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World Kidney Day 2018: 5 Foods You Must Eat For Healthy Kidneys
World Kidney Day 2018: Kidneys help filter waste materials not only from food but from medications, and toxic substances.
