Chennai, September 8 (BPNS) The Mega Covid -19 vaccination camp to be conducted at 10,000 centres across Tamil Nadu and to benefit 10% of the eligible population of the state. The state health department in a statement on Tuesday said that the camps which are modelled on the lines of Intensified Pulse Polio Immunisation( IPPI) […]

Chennai, August 29(BPNS) Tamil Nadu will complete the vaccination of the staff including teaching and non-teaching staff of schools and colleges by September 5. A statement from the office of the state health minister said that at least one dose of vaccine would be administered to the staff of schools and colleges by September 5. […]

Chennai, August 27 (BPNS) The Directorate of Medical Education (DME), Tamil Nadu has directed the deans of some government medical colleges in the state to collect the bond amount of Rs 50 lakh from specialty doctors who have skipped government postings. The DME of Tamil Nadu, Dr. Narayana Prasad has written letters to the deans […]

Chennai, August 27 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu health minister, Ma Subramanian has said that 90.1% of the teachers and 89.32% of the non-teaching staff of Tamil Nadu have been vaccinated with at least the first dose of vaccine against  Covid -19. He was speaking at a functioning organized by the Greater Chennai Corporation on Friday for vaccinating […]

Chennai, August 17 (BPNS) While Tamil Nadu has an infrastructure and trained nurses strength of 50,000 people, the daily vaccines against Covid -19 in the state is at 2.4 lakh while the state can inoculate between 8 to 10 lakh people a day. Health department officials said that the reduced count of inoculation is due […]

Chennai, August 11(BPNS) Tamil Nadu health Minister, Ma Subramanian has said that there was no spread of Delta plus variant of Covid -19 virus in state. The state health minister on Wednesday while interacting with media persons at Karur said that some samples were tested for Delta variant but there was no presence of the […]

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 […]