Several American lawmakers have introduced a legislation in Congress to give unused green cards or permanent legal residency status to thousands of foreign nurses and doctors to meet the urgent needs of the overstretched healthcare sector in the US. The Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act would allow for recapturing green cards […]
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New Delhi | Mumbai: An appointment with the doctor may soon become mandatory for you or your family members to board a flight after the lifting of the lockdown and resumption of normal life, which is expected sometime in June. You may also have to buy gloves, face masks and […]
BERLIN: When he was diagnosed with COVID-19, Andre Bergmann knew exactly where he wanted to be treated: the Bethanien hospital lung clinic in Moers, near his home in northwestern Germany. The clinic is known for its reluctance to put patients with breathing difficulties on mechanical ventilators – the kind that […]
LONDON: Doctors and health experts urged people not to drink or inject disinfectant on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump suggested scientists should investigate inserting the cleaning agent into the body as a way to cure COVID-19. “This is one of the most dangerous and idiotic suggestions made so far […]
Kolkata: Coal India is calling back its retired doctors and paramedical staff to meet shortfall of such personnel for containing spread of Covid-19 pandemic at mines and nearby locations. “This is an unprecedented situation and we are doing the best we could to keep away the virus spread in our […]
Kerala government’s move to provide alcohol on a doctor’s prescription for countering withdrawal symptoms has been criticised by the state chapter of the Indian Medical Association (IMA). “Scientific treatment should be given to those who have alcohol withdrawal symptoms. It can be treated at home or in hospitals with medicines. […]
By Ari Altstedter, Ragini Saxena, Bibhudatta Pradhan and Dhwani Pandya It’s the phone calls at all hours of the night he remembers. As swine flu ravaged northern India in 2015, a radiologist working at a hospital in a Delhi suburb said people would call begging for a bed. That outbreak […]
New Delhi: The government is looking for volunteer doctors to fight the COVID-19 outbreak which has infected over 600 people in the country and has taken more than 19,000 lives across the globe. In a statement posted on Niti Aayog’s website on Wednesday, the government appealed to retired government, Armed […]
The government has roped in three local manufacturers who can produce around 20,000 pieces of this personal protective equipment per week expecting a shortage of disposable body coveralls, 3-ply surgical and N-95 masks for doctors and health workers battling the Covid-19 outbreak. India, which used to meet its annual demand […]