Sleep well to remain healthy, advise docs
Sleep health awareness is required as sleep plays a major role in maintaining a good health, say doctors.
Sleep health awareness is required as sleep plays a major role in maintaining a good health, say doctors.
The alleged compromise of the Covid-testing database of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) should give us all pause.
Speaking to media persons here, Veena George said ICMR has confirmed the presence of the Nipah virus in bats in the Bathery and Mananthavadi areas of Wayanad district in Kerala.
The North Bengal Medical College and Hospital (NBMCH) will use 'Nishchay Yan,' a free ambulance service for expectant women and sick infants, to ferry deceased patients.
The MoA signed by the ICMR and the ministry envisages cooperation and collaboration between them for exploring the areas of convergence and synergy between the two organisations for integrative health research and strengthening research capacity.
"Whenever an infection transmits from humans to animals is called reverse zoonosis. It's not only about SARS-CoV-2, but also includes other COVID like infections. Any infection that originally comes from animals to humans is called zoonosis," Dr Abraham said.
As per the MoU, the cooperation will be undertaken in Chennai at the National Institute for Research on Tuberculosis (NIRT) of ICMR in the scientific area.
Dr Bhargava is the senior most among all 32 persons. His mother, Dr Sneh Bhargava, radiologist and medical academic, also held the post of director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi from 1984-1990. She has been the first and the only female Director of the AIIMS so far.
This emphasises the need for an Omicron-specific vaccine strategy, said the study.
“Recently, on the instructions from the ICMR we have distributed huge quantities of test kits that were lying unutilized here and scheduled for expiry by 31 December to central government-run labs in Odisha and Jharkhand for their use. I don’t know why our state government is not sending adequate number of swab samples as much as possible to us despite repeated requests made to Swasthya Bhaban,”
