90.1% teachers, 89.32% non-teaching staff in TN schools vaccinated, Minister
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 […]
Daily Covid 19 vaccines low in TN following vaccine shortage
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 […]
TN Health Minister rules out spread of Covid -19 Delta plus variant virus in the state
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 […]
TN to add 1650 MBBS seats in state government medical colleges
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, […]
After renal transplant surgery, 41-year-old Chennai resident has 5 kidneys in his body
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 […]
TN health department to devise new strategies on vaccine awareness as level of hesitancy high in senior citizens
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 […]
TN health minister directly inspects Covid -19 records of passengers from Kerala
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 […]
AIADMK government caused heavy losses to exchequer in Covid management, TN health minister
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 […]
Active Covid cases fall below 900 in Puducherry for second time in three days
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 […]