An Air India Express flight from Dubai crashed while landing at Kozhikode International Airport, Karipur this evening. According to airport sources, the flight skidded off the rain-soaked tabletop runway while landing at around 7.45 p.m., and fell into a trench more than 25 ft deep. The fuselage broke into two. Early reports said the flight captain and several other passengers were seriously injured. Unconfirmed reports said the captain and two others were dead. Many passengers had a miraculous escape as the flight did not go up in flames. It was the first such disaster at Karipur since the airport came into being in 1988. There were 180-odd people, including crew members, on board the aircraft. The injured passengers were shifted to hospitals at Kozhikode, Kondotty and Malappuram. The airport was closed following the accident.
August 7, 2020 – While India currently has low fatality rate and high recovery rate for Covid patients compared to many other nations like the US and Brazil, the country needs to stick to basics like wearing masks, physical distancing and maintaining hand hygiene and surface disinfection till a safe and effective Covid vaccine is found and the pandemic abates. This was stated by distinguished panelists who took part in a Webinar organized by the Association of Healthcare Providers of India on the theme of Covid Care: Community Transmission and Herd Immunity.
The discussion was chaired by Dr. Girdhar J. Gyani, Director General, AHPI, and included speakers such as Dr Alexander Thomas, President, AHPI; Dr. Vinay Aggarwal, MD, Pushpanjali Medical Centre; Dr. Alok Roy, Chair FICCI Health Services Committee & Chairman Medica Group of Hospitals; Dr. Narottam Puri, Advisor, FICCI Health Services Committee; Dr. Suneela Garg, Director Prof., Dept. Of Community Medicine, Maulana Azad Medical College, and Dr. Sanjeev Singh, Chief Medical Superintendent, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences.
Addressing the audiences, Dr. Girdhar J. Gyani, Director General, Association of Healthcare Providers of India, said: “India is in a much better position than countries like Brazil or the US in terms of Covid-related fatalities or recovery rate. India is seeing only 30 deaths per million Covid patients compared to a staggering 464 for Brazil and 492 for US. India’s recovery rate has gone up to 65 percent, which is good. Fatality rate too has been continuously dropping. From 3.6 percent at one time, it has dropped to 2 percent now, though our wish is to see it go down to 1.5 percent.”
Dr. Sanjeev Singh, Chief Medical Superintendent, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Faridabad, said: “Covid 19 is a public health crisis. Though the infection rate is high, the fatality rate is low in India, with low per lakh death rate, low crude mortality rate, low case fatality rate and low crude infection rate. The best way to approach the pandemic is screening actively, conducting contact tracing, testing in accordance to symptoms, with RT PCR being the gold standard diagnostic test, and symptomatic management. Early recognition and referrals to high-dependency unit or critical care unit is essential. To reduce community transmission, vaccination would play an important role. Six study groups are in Phase 3 trials and promising results are expected on short-term and long-term immunity. The most urgent step is to go back to basics with wearing masks, adhering to physical distancing and maintaining hand hygiene and adequate surface disinfection.”
Dr. Suneela Garg, Director Professor, Dept. Of Community Medicine, Maulana Azad Medical College: “There has been a shifting in epicenters of Covid in the last one month whereby Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka have maximum growth rate while Delhi is faring much better. If community transmission begins to occur, isolation and quarantine will have limited or no role to play. Community driven social changes will then play an important role in containing the spread such as wearing masks, washing hands regularly and maintaining social distancing. Lockdown in specific clusters will also be required. Herd immunity is indirect protection from a contagious infectious disease of a population through vaccination or through immunity developed from a previous infection. While isolation and quarantine open doors to reinfection, herd immunity offers protection in the long run. However, community transmission in a country like India may prove to be catastrophic and reinfection will prove to be a major factor preventing herd immunity.”
Said Dr Alexander Thomas, President, AHPI: “Things are still evolving with respect to Covid. Prevention of Covid cases and fatalities includes steps like coming early to hospital if one has symptoms, focus on elderly and those with comorbidities, wearing masks, physical distancing and sanitization. Government has to enforce wearing of masks strictly as many people are still not wearing these or wearing them improperly below their nose. We need adequate availability of beds equipped with oxygen and ventilators, as well as human resources such as doctors and nurses. Private hospitals are overwhelmed while there are few takers for beds in Government hospitals. Public private partnership is critical in meeting healthcare challenges like Covid.”
Dr. Alok Roy, Chair, FICCI, Health Services Committee, and Chairman, Medica Group of Hospitals, said: “The pandemic has had a cataclysmic effect on the socio-economic fabric of India. Private hospitals are facing the stark financial reality of liquidity crunch in keeping patients safe. The healthcare delivery space is extremely capital and people intensive. We at FICCI have been urging the Government to provide financial stimulus up to minimum 3% of GDP. The private healthcare domain should be incentivized to develop skills to handle a pandemic of this nature. Specific funds like Healthcare Infrastructure Fund and Healthcare Innovation Fund should be developed to boost entrepreneurship, start-ups and newer business models, which are needed to improve access, availability and quality, especially in smaller cities and rural areas. The serological surveys being conducted are effective as they help authorities make informed decisions about interventions that are needed to contain the pandemic. It will give us an outlook whether India can achieve herd immunity. The infection rate has been rapidly rising since the Government began to ease lockdown restrictions. India has logged a million new cases since then, but the recovery rate stood at 67.61%, which means that over 13 lakh people have recuperated. While hospitals treat the patients affected by the virus, they should simultaneously take adequate precaution for non-COVID critical care patients. With timely case identifications and better and quicker turnaround of testing facilities, we are moving towards a phase which will help us stay ahead of the pandemic.
Said Dr. Narottam Puri, Advisor, FICCI Health Services Committee: “Healthcare is going to fundamentally change after this pandemic. It is increasingly being seen as a basic human need and there will be lot of pressure from the masses on policy makers and politicians to deliver quality and affordable healthcare for all. Covid has also triggered social and cultural changes with the need for social distancing. These will have an impact on overall healthcare because a large part of our diseases comprises of respiratory infections, and this preventive social behavior will help bring down their incidence. Another change will be in how our hospitals are functioning. Pandemics are never won by the hospitals; they are won by communities and individuals. So we will now need to move from hospital mitigation to community mitigation, and from community mitigation to individual mitigation. We have been caught napping as were too focused on non-communicable diseases. Hospitals design and structural changes may become imperative now to prevent infections from passing on from one patient to another. Digital technology is going to change the face of healthcare delivery. We are already seeing the increase use of telemedicine which will become important in chronic disease management. Home healthcare will also get a major boost.”
Said Dr. Vinay Aggarwal, MD, Pushpanjali Medical Centre, New Delhi: “The gold standard to contain Covid still involves the proper use of masks, sanitization and social distancing, followed by testing and home isolation. Initial mismanagement led to where we are today. There was a lack of coordination from officers from the state to district level regarding Covid management, due to which cases have exponentially increased. In the last 15 days, the cases have doubled in the country. Covid has given hard lesson to healthcare organizations to reorganize, reframe and restructure. Digital platforms and telemedicine are going to be the main paradigm shift in healthcare going forward.”
Bengaluru, August 7, 2020: AU Small Finance Bank, a Scheduled Commercial Bank and one of the fastest-growing retail Banks of India, has today commenced its operations in Bengaluru. Today, the Bank launched its first branch at J.P. Nagar in Bengaluru. With this branch, AU Bank has 664 Banking Touchpoints across 12 states and one Union Territory. Another branch of AU Bank is going to be launched at Residency Road this month.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Sanjay Agarwal, MD & CEO, AU Small Finance Bank, said, “AU Bank embarks on its journey to the Southern states starting with the Silicon Valley of India. We are looking forward to the innovative spirit of the Bengalurians and are excited to offer our differentiated services to them. AU has a 25-years legacy of being a retail focused and customer centric institution. This is an important landmark in our journey of becoming a Bank with pan India presence. In this journey from the ‘incredible state of India’ to the ‘one state with many worlds’ we will try to bring the versatility of Rajasthan to the land of imagination. I am optimistic that as a digitally focussed bank, we will be able to offer simplified banking and customized solutions to the city of millennials. To the Bengalurians, I would like to say – Be U! Be with AU!”
With a strong focus on digital solutions, AU Bank has adopted technology as an enabler to evolve as a customer centric bank. The Bank offers contactless FD, video KYC, WhatsApp banking, missed call banking, TAB banking, AU ABHI instant self-onboarding Bank account etc. Since the beginning of its Banking services, AU has designed products and services keeping customer needs and challenges in mind. That is how AU has emerged as one-of-its kind bank that does not require customers to fill cash deposit or withdrawal slips; that devised ‘no home branch’ concept; offered extended banking hours etc.
In the last three years as a bank, AU has built a solid net worth of about Rs. 4600 Cr., robust deposit base of over Rs. 26,000 Cr.+ and a strong lending base of about Rs. 30,000 Cr.+. The Bank is listed at both the leading exchanges viz. NSE and BSE. In Q1FY21, AU Bank’s PAT grew by 49%. Despite the unprecedented challenges in the last few months, AU Bank has continued to perform well on all fronts including Deposit Growth, Liquidity Management, Assets Quality, Digital Banking, Inclusive Banking, Customer Engagement and Employee Safety.
ನಟನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಆಸಕ್ತಿ ಇರುವವರಿಗೆ ತಮ್ಮ ಆಡಿಷನ್ ಕೊಡಲು ದೊಡ್ಡದೊಡ್ಡ ಕ್ಯೂನಲ್ಲಿ ನಿಲ್ಲುವ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆ ಇಲ . ನೂರಾರು ಕಿಲೋಮೀಟರ್ ಪ್ರಯಾಣ ಮಾಡುವ ಲಾಡ್ಡಿಂಗ್ ಮಾಡುವ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಗಳು ಇಲ್ಲ . ಕೈಯಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಸ್ಮಾರ್ಟ್ ಪೋನ್ನಲ್ಲಿಯೇ “ Singletakes ( ಸಿಂಗಲ್ ಟೇಕ್ಸ್ ) ಅಪ್ಲಿಕೇಷನ್ ಅನ್ನು Play store ಡೌನ್ಲೋಡ್ ಮಾಡಿದರೆ ಸಾಕು , ಆಸಕ್ತಿಯಿರುವ ನಟನೊಬ್ಬ ತನ್ನ ನಟನಾ ಸಾಮರ್ಥ್ಯದ ವಿಡೀಯೋವನ್ನು ಸುಲಭವಾಗಿ ಅಪ್ಲೋಡ್ ಮಾಡಬಹುದು . ಯಾವುದೇ ಖರ್ಚು ಇಲ್ಲ . ನಿರ್ದೇಸಕರು ಮತ್ತು ನಿರ್ಮಾಪಕರು ಅದನ್ನು ಪರಿಶೀಲಿಸಿ ನಿಮ್ಮನ್ನು ಆಯ್ಕೆ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಾರೆ . ಸಿನಿಮಾ ನಿರ್ಮಾಣದ ಬಹುದೊಡ್ಡ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಯೆಂದರೆ “ ಆಡಿಷನ್ ” ಕಲಾವಿದರನ್ನು ಸೆಲೆಕ್ಟ್ ಮಾಡುವುದು . ಇದು ಕೇವಲ ಕಲಾವಿದರಿಗಷ್ಟೇ ಅಲ್ಲದೇ ನಿರ್ದೇಶನ ಮತ್ತು ನಿರ್ಮಾಪಕರಿಗೂ ಅನುಕೂಲವಾಗುವ ಸೂಪರ್ ಆಪ್ಲಿಕೇಶನ್ ಎಂದು ಮಹಾನ್ ನಿರ್ದೇಶಕರು ಮತ್ತು ನಿರ್ಮಾಪಕರು ಅಭಿಪ್ರಾಯಪಟ್ಟಿದ್ದಾರೆ ಆಡಿಷನ್ ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಸೋಶಿ ತಿಥಿಯಲ್ ಮೀಡಿಯಾ ನೆಟ್ ವರ್ಕ್ , ವೀಡಿಯೊ , ಶೇರಿಂಗ್ ಪಾತ್ ಫಾರ್ಮ್ ಕೂಡ ಇದ . ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನ ಪ್ರತಿಭಾನಿತ್ವ ಚಾರ್ಟರ್ಡ್ ಅಕೌಂಟೆಂಟ್ ಮತ್ತು ಇಂಗ್ಲೆಂಡ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ ಎಂ.ಎಸ್ ಪದವೀಧರ ಕಳೆದ ಎರಡು ವರುಷದಿಂದ ಸುಮಾರು 30 ಜನ ಹೈದರಾಬಾದ್ , ಅಮೇರಿಕಾ ಮತ್ತು ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನ ಐ.ಟಿ ಟೆಕ್ನಿಕಲ್ ಎಕ್ಸ್ಪರ್ಟ್ ಜೊತೆ ಸೇರಿ ಈ ಅಪ್ಲಿಕೇಶನ್ ತಯಾರಿ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ . ಇನ್ನು ಮುಂದಿನ ದಿನಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಭಾರತದಾದ್ಯಂತ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಭಾಷೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಈ ಪ್ಲಾಟ್ಫಾರ್ಮ್ ಉಪಯೋಗಕ್ಕೆ ಬರಲಿದೆ . ಭಾರತ ಮಾತ್ರವಲ್ಲ ಪ್ರಪಂಚದ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿನ ದೇಶಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಲಭ್ಯವಾಗಲಿದೆ .
ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ಹಲವು ಉದ್ಯಮಿಗಳು ಹೂಡಿಕೆ ಮಾಡಲು ಆಸಕ್ತಿ ತೋರಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ ಪ್ರಪಂಚದಾದ್ಯಂತ ಮಾರುಕಟ್ಟೆ ಹೊಂದಬೇಕೆಂದಿರುವ ಈ ಕಂಪನಿ ಸ್ಥಾಪಕರು ಕೇವಲ ಹೂಡಿಕೆ ಮಾತ್ರವಲ್ಲ ಅಂತ ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ಮಾರುಕಟ್ಟೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಗುರುತು ಇರುವ ಹೂಡಿಕೆ ದಾರರನ್ನು ಹುಡುಕುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ . ಸಾವಿರಾರು ಕೋಟಿ ಮಾರುಕಟ್ಟೆ ಇರುವ ಸೋಷಿಯೋ ಎಂಟರ್ಟೈನ್ನೆಂಟ್ ನೆಟ್ವರ್ಕ್ ಇದಾಗಲಿದೆ ಎಂದು ಹಲವು ಜನ ತಂತ್ರಜ್ಞರು , ನಿರ್ದೇಶಕರು , ನಿರ್ಮಾಪಕರು ಮತ್ತು ಉದ್ಯಮಿಗಳು ಅಭಿಪ್ರಾಯ ಪಟ್ಟಿದ್ದಾರೆ . ಕನ್ನಡಿಗರೇ ಸೃಷ್ಟಿಸಿದ ಈ ಸ್ವದೇಶಿ ಅಪ್ಲಿಕೇಶನ್ ಅನ್ನು ಡೌನ್ಲೋಡ್ ಮಾಡುವ ಮೂಲಕ ಪ್ರೋತ್ಸಾಹಿಸಿ .
Dr. Ashu Shah a Doctor & philanthropist She & her team is working proactively protecting Cancer patients & senior citizens, Other citizens from deadly COVID-19 virus and to reduce the burden on hospitals.
On the death anniversary of A.P.J ABDUL KALAM, she has served about 100 poor socio-economic families senior citizens, providing free consultations, general medicines and supplements essential to fight against this virus. She has informed the local President to keep local physician on call, ready to serve this needy and vulnerable section of society. She also advocated providing essential equipment for night emergencies like Pulse-oximeters and oxygen concentrators to be kept available all the time. She explained about COVID-19 testing processes and home isolation tips, Quartining, sharing her thoughts on ways to reduce the unnecessary crowd in the already overwhelmed hospitals.
She explained about recent COVID-19 symptoms like fatigue, diarrhoea ,metallic taste, loss of smell, chills, blood pressure fluctuation and blood sugar fluctuation. For majority of the masses, fever is the first indication of possible COVID-19 onset but she observed that fever is no longer the most critical symptom for the diagnosis of COVID-19. Among the patients she treated, only 17% had fever, which is very crucial observation because many asymptomatic patients don’t pay any attention to the above mentioned symptoms like fever only focus on symptoms of cough & cold, Fatigue body aches, throat pain, cough etc.
Dr. Ashu is of the view that if fever is around 98 with oxygen saturation between 92%-94% such patients can be treated at home. She said that such COVID-19 can be treated at home via frequent telemedicine consultation and self-isolation. Since they are not at high risk and symptoms are mild, home isolation and care will be good in observing and keeping regular check on their vitals. This will in turn reduce the burden on already overcrowded hospitals and ensure that hospital beds and ventilators are being efficiently used for those patients who are severely affected by the virus and are in the critical stages. COVID-19 pneumonia patients, immunocompromised patients like cancer patients, chronic kidney disease patients, chronic neurological patients e.g., stroke, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease(COPD) patients, serious heart disease patients should be taken care at hospitals. COVID-19 with pneumonia, if oxygen saturation is less than 90% and fever greater than 102℃ should also be monitored in hospitals .Their recovery period is 4-6. weeks and post recovery when they are shifted to home, they should be kept in an isolated and well ventilated room for few days and family should also keep oxygen concentrators at home for precautionary reasons in case if need arises.
Best screening for COVID-19 is either Antigen test or Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test. If people are affected, sometimes there would be fluctuations in RT-PCR because of late results as COVID-19 So, there is no need to panic as there are options available.j
People should adopt American guidlines like,
a) Cover your face with a mask b) Wash hands regularly with hand sanitizers c) Maintain physical distance. d) if you would want to outside go with your own people dont go outsiders
For a COVID 19 patient in home isolation, diet and exercise is equally important. A high protein diet and light exercises is recommended for patients fighting this virus at home along with being in well ventilated room.
Home Isolation tips Covid patients ; 1.Patient should wear compulsory mask at home 2.patient should be isolated at separate room with all things clothes ,toilet,Utensils separately with well ventilated room 3.Cancer patients should take double safety measures care, not go unnecessarily outside.
Dr Ashu and team appeal people not to stigmatize the disease (like T.B patients were stigmatized in the early stages of the disease) rather provide moral support to patients,
From the advent of lockdown she is providing night consultations to thousands of Citizens free of cost through Ascf foundation arranging beds for COVID-19 patients in hospitals along with her volunteers MP South Corona Taskforce providing free oxygen concentrators and home isolation kits.
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