Bengaluru and Toronto March 5, 2021: Technology services firm Vee Technologies and Sona Group of educational institutions have forged an agreement with Toronto-based University Health Network, Canada to collaborate on a multi-institution research and commercialisation effort to develop smart fabric-based wearables. The objective is to improve the lives of people living with health-related challenges. The collaboration agreement seeks to contribute to FIBRE, a research initiative that will be fuelled by the UHN hospital network, which includes Toronto General and Toronto Western Hospitals, the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, and The Michener Institute of Education. In addition, three universities, four colleges and a number of industry partners are actively working on FIBRE’s goal. The University Health Network (UHN) is a public research and teaching hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto . The scope of research and ... » Learn More about Vee Tech and Sona to collaborate with Canada’s University Health Network
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Long Covid is now becoming the focus of attention: Dr. Kumud Dhital
Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld, spoke to Dr. Kumud Dhital , Sr Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Director, Heart & Lung Transplantation and MCS Program, Yashoda Hospitals, Hyderabad to know more about the implications of long term Covid and the need for policies to manage them. Covid-19 : The Lingering Problem Currently, everybody’s focus is on Covid, the immediate impact and where we are pretty much in a war zone which occasionally truces and skirmishes but it looks like we are coming towards the end at least. And that brings us to a very different perspective in two ways, one is that Covid, unlike other infections, is causing lingering problems in terms of healthcare to the patients who have been so affected. We have three categories, those who seem to recover with very minimal symptoms and some asymptomatically seem to recover. They remain in the community, but for those who have required hospital attention and those with therapy have gone home recovered. ... » Learn More about Long Covid is now becoming the focus of attention: Dr. Kumud Dhital
Vaccine passports, Covid’s next political flashpoint
The next major flashpoint over coronavirus response has already provoked cries of tyranny and discrimination in Britain, protests in Denmark, digital disinformation in the United States and geopolitical skirmishing within the European Union . The subject of debate: vaccine passports — government-issued cards or smartphone badges stating that the bearer has been inoculated against the coronavirus. The idea is to allow families to reunite, economies to restart and hundreds of millions of people who have received a shot to return to a degree of normalcy, all without spreading the virus. Some versions of the documentation might permit bearers to travel internationally. Others would allow entry to vaccinated-only spaces like gyms, concert venues and restaurants. While such passports are still hypothetical in most places, Israel became the first to roll out its own last week, capitalizing on its high vaccination rate. Several European countries are considering following. ... » Learn More about Vaccine passports, Covid’s next political flashpoint
Aarushi’s murder trial and a tale about India
'If the State does want to come after you, in India, it can do pretty much anything. And often it isn't as though the orders are coming from the President or prime minister, no, the systems have been built in a way -- or we have allowed them to be built in a way -- that almost encourages crushing of liberties.' 'Ekta Kapoor understands things a lot better than anybody else. Absolutely a genius... She tapped into this quite early: That post liberalisation there is a relatively moneyed and large middle class which actually thinks in a very kind of saas-bahu way.' Avirook Sen speaks to Vaihayasi P Daniel/ Rediff.com about his book Aarushi , and the murder trial that transfixed India. F our people -- including a 13-year-old child with a shining face and glowing eyes that shall never sparkle again -- paid with their lives for a repugnant crime that took place in a middle-class locality in Noida, outside New Delhi, in 2008. As a nation, we firmly believed ... » Learn More about Aarushi’s murder trial and a tale about India
Mumbai: 13 private hospitals join drive, can vaccinate 8,000 people a day at the most
MUMBAI: At its maximum capacity, the city’s major private hospitals will manage to vaccinate between 7,000 and 8,000 people in a day, which means public centres will have to shoulder most of the vaccination burden. On Thursday, 13 private hospitals joined the programme out of 29 that have been granted permission by the Centre. The number is expected to rise to 35. While Mumbai ’s daily vaccination turnout has been rising steadily, it needs to increase manifold, BMC officials said. The city was vaccinating 11,000-12,000 every day till Phase II began on Monday for senior citizens and those above 45 with comorbidities. The numbers have since jumped to 18,566 on Wednesday and 22,975 on Thursday. On Thursday, apart from 13 private hospitals, six Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS)-empanelled hospitals joined the drive. Together, the 19 hospitals vaccinated over 4,000 and BMC centres over 18,000. Mumbai City Updates Additional municipal commissioner Suresh Kakani ... » Learn More about Mumbai: 13 private hospitals join drive, can vaccinate 8,000 people a day at the most
In case you thought petrol @Rs 100 won’t become the new normal just yet, think again
The Indian consumer's hope that petrol @Rs 100 might not become the new normal just yet, may have been dashed. Yesterday, OPEC+ — the grouping of major oil producers — made public its plan to continue with its production cuts till April. It effectively means that if you are headed to the petrol pump, brace yourself to keep paying more for longer than you thought you would. In all likelihood, the move by OPEC+ would push retail fuel prices to new highs in yet more towns and cities in India, putting paid to the hope that Indian consumers may get some relief at last. The Indian government was hoping that oil exporting countries would end the ongoing production cuts by March end, which would have brought local prices down in importing countries like India. Before the important meeting, India's Oil Ministry had sent out requests to OPEC+ to raise production and "bring back some of the price stability", various reports said. However, Saudi Arabia and Russia — the prime players ... » Learn More about In case you thought petrol @Rs 100 won’t become the new normal just yet, think again
National Health Authority is implementing its priorities AB-PMJAY and NDHM using technology: RS Sharma
By T Radhakrishna CoWIN , essentially an extension of India ’s existing vaccine intelligence system, eVIN is an IT solution for planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the COVID vaccination drive in the country. The app was rolled out on January 16, 2021, when the Central government launched the drive. India’s initial target is to vaccinate 30 crore people who are classified into four priority groups, health workers, frontline workers, people aged over 50, and those under 50 with co-morbidities. Senior bureaucrat Ram Sewak Sharma is on a major technology mission. Overseeing the nation-wide COVID vaccination programme using CoWIN digital-platform and ensuring eligible-people to get healthcare coverage under AB-PMJAY and subsequently, evangelization of the National Digital Health digital-platform are some part of his mission as he wears multiple hats, including chairman of an empowered group on technology and data management to combat COVID-19. As ... » Learn More about National Health Authority is implementing its priorities AB-PMJAY and NDHM using technology: RS Sharma
Leach wants Tests to last longer than two days
'I do not have too much to say about the pitch, we got outplayed in those conditions' IMAGE: England's Jack Leach, centre, celebrates. Photograph: PTI Photo Amid the debates over the nature of the pitch that was prepared for the pink-ball Test, England spinner Jack Leach asserted that he would have liked the third Test against India to go longer than two days. The third Test match got over within two days after the visitors crumbled in front of the India spin duo of Ravichandran Ashwin and Axar Patel. Leach said a Test match should last longer than two days but admitted that the hosts outplayed England on Ahmedabad wicket. "I think that is right. One thing I will say as a cricket fan if I was watching a Test match, I would want it to go longer than two days, that is my only kind of viewing being a cricket fan.... Test match should go on longer than two days, whether that is to the pitch or skill, for me, I am fully concentrating how can I best do on every ... » Learn More about Leach wants Tests to last longer than two days
Feature: “Principal nanny” and his 167 “children”
Video Player Close FUZHOU, March 5 (Xinhua) -- At 6:30 a.m. every school day, Zhuang Guigan would wake up the 83 boarding students at the Xijin primary school. Zhuang, 64, was used to being greeted by the children's delightful laughter in the morning. "As the children returned after the Spring Festival holiday, the school came back to life," said Zhuang, the school principal, who has been in education for 47 years. The school in Shitun township, Zhenghe County of east China's Fujian Province, has 167 students. Among them, 86 are left-behind children, 83 of whom are boarders. "Some students are from poverty-stricken families. Many of their parents have to work far to earn their livelihood, so we are not only responsible for teaching but also need to give them as much care as possible," Zhuang said. As head of the only village elementary boarding school in the mountainous region of northern Fujian, Zhuang is also a "nanny." He manages the boarders' daily lives. "Living ... » Learn More about Feature: “Principal nanny” and his 167 “children”
TN Polls: DMK concludes deal with CPI, Congress vows to fight for a respectable number of seats
#Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections 2021 Tamil Nadu assembly polls 2021: AIADMK releases first list of six candidates; CM to contest from Edappadi #Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections 2021 Day after Sasikala's premature exit from politics, theories abound on her decision #Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections 2021 Tamil Nadu assembly polls: Voters information slips to replace photo voter slip #Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections 2021 Why it is not yet time to write Sasikala’s political obituary #Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections 2021 TN elections 2021: Will Kamal Haasan's entry play trick between Congress-DMK seat-sharing? #Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections 2021 TN election: In talks with 'like-minded' parties for alliance, says Kamal Haasan For Quick Alerts Subscribe Now Actor Mithun Chakraborty may join BJP at PM Modi's Kolkata rally on Mar 7 View Sample For Quick Alerts ALLOW NOTIFICATIONS For Daily ... » Learn More about TN Polls: DMK concludes deal with CPI, Congress vows to fight for a respectable number of seats