Chennai, March 12 (BPNS) Poor road facilities and lack of hospital or Primary Health Centre have led to a tribal family in Isalattu near the Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) in Tamil Nadu carrying an unwell, elderly woman in a cloth cradle to a general hospital in the main settlement. According to tribal leader Madhusoodanan, the […]

Chennai, March 11 (BPNS) Tiruppathur police arrested a 53-year-old quack, Sugumar, posing as a doctor and conducting scanning in the remote areas of the district adjacent to forest areas. He was arrested on Thursday and produced before a judicial magistrate court and was remanded in judicial custody. According to police, Sugumar and his accomplice and […]

Chennai, March 11 (BPNS) After Ramesh (50), a worker of Tiruchy corporation died due to Covid -19 on May 9,2021, his family conducted his creation without securing a Covid -19 death certificate. This led to the doctors of the hospital refused to provide the Covid death certificate as the cremation was already over. The procedures […]

New Delhi, Mar 8  India logged 3,993 new coronavirus infections, the lowest in 662 days, taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,29,71,308, while the active cases dipped to 49,948, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday. The death toll climbed to 5,15,210 with 108 fresh fatalities, the data updated at […]

Chennai, March 9 (BPNS) Parents of a 17-year-old girl student studying in Government Girls higher secondary school, Sholingur, Ranipet has said that their daughter,  lost her eyesight after being inoculated with vaccine against Covid -19. The parents said that the girl was administered vaccine on January 4, 2022, and after that, she fell ill from […]

Chennai, March 8 (BPNS) A 47-year-old firewood cutter of Vembar in Thoothukudi has filed a complaint with the Soorangudi police station alleging that he was forcefully subjected to vasectomy at the Government PHC in Sayalkudi Ramanathapuram. Muthuserman (47) of Sinthamanai Nagar, Vembar In Thoothukudi in his complaint lodged with the Soorangudi police station on Monday said […]

Puducherry, March 7 (BPNS) For the first time in the past two years since the outbreak of the Covid -19 pandemic, the Union Territory of Puducherry reported no fresh cases on Monday. Puducherry Director of Health services in a statement said that in the past 24 hours 157 samples were tested but not a single […]

Chennai, March 1 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu government doctors will stage a token protest fast on Wednesday from 10 am to 5 pm. The protest is for a number of demands that the doctors have been asking the government including proper relief for families of Government doctors who died of Covid 19. The doctors also demand […]

Chennai, Feb 25 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu received 3.89 lakh doses of Corbevax against Covid -19 for children in the age group of 12-15. The state health minister, Ma Subramanian said that the vaccine will be rolled out after the central government issues guidelines on the same. Ma Subramanian while speaking to BPNS said, “ Union […]

Chennai, Feb 25 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu medical council has advised registered medical doctors from the state not to issue certificates to strangers as several doctors have lost their license to practice after issuing certificates based on fake Id papers. The medical council in an advisory to doctors said that certificates issued by doctors were […]