Chennai, August 10(BPNS) Tamil Nadu is all set to increase the tally of MBBS seats to 1650 if all the new 11 Medical colleges in the Government sector of the state gets recognition from the National Medical Council (NMC). Inspections by the NMC has already been completed in four of the eleven new medical colleges, […]

Chennai, August 10(BPNS) After the third renal transplant surgery a 41-year-old Chennai native has five kidney’s in his body and is doing well. The patient who underwent third renal transplant surgery at Madras Mission Hospital, Chennai had two earlier transplanted kidneys in his body along with his original two kidneys. This is one of the […]

Chennai, August 9(BPNS) Tamil Nadu health department is to chalk out new strategies on vaccine awareness as a survey commissioned by the Directorate of Public Health and  Preventive Medicine revealed that the vaccine The hesitancy among the senior citizens is high at 27.5%. The survey, “Vaccine hesitancy” conducted by the  department among the citizens of the […]

Chennai, August 9(BPNS) Tamil Nadu health Minister Ma Subramanian directly conducted an inspection of passengers from Kerala who arrived on the train at Chennai Central Railway station. The health minister along with the Tamil Nadu dewaswom minister, P.K.Sekar Babu, health Secretary J Radhakrishnan, and other officials inspected the documents of the passengers from Kerala including […]

Chennai, August 9(BPNS) Tamil Nadu health minister, Ma Subramanian has said that the previous AIADMK government has brought heavy losses to the exchequer during Covid management. The minister said that the AIADMK government had spent exorbitantly on the expenses of front line health workers as well as for buying the Covid management kits at high […]

Puducherry, August 6(BPNS) Giving big relief and respite to the health department and health workers, the number of active Covid -19 cases have come down to 888 on Thursday, the second time in the past three days for the cases to have fallen below the 900 mark. The number of fresh cases in the Union […]

Chennai, August 6(BPNS) Tamil Nadu health minister, Ma Subramanian has said that the number of testing for Covid -19 pandemic is increasing in the state. The minister said that on Thursday the state has conducted 1.58 lakh RT-PCR tests and added that Tamil Nadu is testing more than 1.5 lakh samples a day. Ma Subramanian […]

Chennai, August 6(BPNS) Tamil Nadu has stepped up measures to check passengers arriving from Kerala through road, rail or air. At the Kerala, Tamil Nadu border, heavy police force is deployed with a DySp in charge of each check post. Tamil Nadu has announced that it would allow passengers from Kerala only if they had […]

Chennai, August 5( BPNS) The Tamil Nadu health department is actively focusing on complete vaccination of the frontline Covid warriors of the state including health workers, policemen, taxi, auto drivers, volunteers. According to the state health department, while 80% of the frontline workers were inoculated with the first dose of vaccine, only 37% have taken […]

Chennai, August 5(BPNS) The districts of Coimbatore and Tirupur started imposing new curbs after a slight spike in Covid- 19 cases. Coimbatore on Wednesday reported 226 cases while it was only 208 cases on Tuesday. Tamil Nadu health officials are keenly watching the sudden increase in the number of fresh Covid -19 cases. The number […]