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Survey Says 15% of State Kids in Urban Areas have Vitamin D deficiency
1 July 2013 Kochi Survey by Experts says that about 15 percent of urban children population have an increased risk of Vit-D deficiency as they are obese. The situation is even worse as the obesity rate in urban Kerala is predicted to double in the next five years….
KIMS to Have Hospitals in Nagercoil and Kozhikode
25 June 2013 Kozhikode KIMS Kerala Institute of Medical Science is willing to acquire hospitals in Kozhikode and Nagercoil. KIMS will spend R100 Cr for the acquisition of a hospital in Kozhikode. KIMS recently acquired a 75-bed hospital in Kottayam and 125-bed hospital in Kollam. Both these hospitals…
(NABH)-Safe 1 Accreditation For a Private Kerala Hospitals
12 June 2013 Kochi Devamatha hospital Hospital in Kerala got the (NABH)-Safe 1 accreditation , it is now the second hospital with such credits. Announcing this, NABH Director Dr Gayatri Mahindroo told reporters here that Tagore Hospital at Jalandar in Punjab was the first hospital to be certified…
New Dialysis Machines By Krunaya Lottery
June 9 2013 Thiruvananthapuram “Karunya Lottery“, the brainchild of state Finance Minister K.M. Mani, has set aside Rs.36.50 crore for new dialysis machines.The income from the sale of the “Karunya Lottery” tickets is exclusively meant for extending financial assistance to poor patients ailing from diseases of the kidney,…
Kerala Tribal Belt gets Aid From Center
June 10 2013 Thiruvananthapuram Rising Deaths in Attapady area of Kerala have shocked the state and health departments of the State on which Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh has announced a government assistance of Rs 125 crore for Kerala’s tribal belt Attappady, where 28 newborn babies…
9 People Died with the Fever while new 14,000 cases more
4 June 2013 Thiruvananthapuram Nine people have died due to fever that is prevailing in the state , 14,000 new cases, including those of jaundice and dengue, have been reported from across the state, an official said on Tuesday. Thiruvananthapuram has reported the highest number of such cases….
Doctors on Strike While Kerala is on rise of Dengue Fever
1 June 2013 Kottayam Dengue Fever in Kerala is one great rise all the government hospital are full with the patients affected by Dengue Fever. Functioning of state run hospitals and Public Health Centres in Kerala was badly hit on Saturday following the strike by a section of…
Seasons First N1H1 Case in the State
1 June 2013 Thiruvananthapuram A 27-year-old woman died of H1N1 at Maranadu in Kollam district on Friday, which was the first such case of the season.Kerala has reported the season’s first death due to H1N1 virus ahead of the onset of southwest monsoon as various types of viral…
Tobacco Adds Banned in Kerala
31 May 2013 Thiruvananthapuram Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy Friday announced that advertisements of tobacco products would be banned across the state. Studies have shown that tobacco use causes 30,000-40,000 deaths in the state every year. “The government will take all legal measures to reduce tobacco consumption, such…
Notice Issued by NHRC to Kerala Govt over Infant Deaths
28 May 2013 New Delhi Due to rise in death of infants in Attappadi region of Kerala due to malnutrition National Human Rights Commission have send a notice regarding the matter. The rights panel has given six weeks time to the state government to submit a report in…
Poor Health Measures in Kerala Infants Death Becoming Serious Problem
24 May 2013 Attapadi 22 infant deaths in four months due to poor nutrition and inadequate healthcare has left the tribal belt of Attapadi in Kerala devastated. The tribal belt of Attapadi in Kerala has never had it so bad. “The government keeps saying that they will provide…
New Health Schemes in Kerala
17 May 2013 Thiruvananthapuram Kerala State Govt today launched new health schemes, including free treatment in government hospitals for those upto the age of 18 years, to mark the completion of two years in office. All people in the Above Poverty Line and Below Poverty Line categories are…
Still Many District Hospitals Lacks Cancer Treatment Facility
16 May 2013 Kannur In Kerala every year around 35,000 cases of Cancer are registered every year . According to data presented in the draft of Health Policy-2013, over one lakh patients undergo treatment every year in the state. Cancer treatment, in the public sector, is limited to…
KWA Water Supply Contaminated
17 May 2013 Kollam Districts Integrated Disease Surveillance Project Study have reported that the recent cases of Hepatitis A infection in Thrikovilvattam and Mayyanad grama panchayats on the outskirts of Kollam city found that the disease spread from a common source-contaminated pipeline water supplied by the Kerala Water…
Kyasanur Forest Disease Infected Youth in Wayanad
14 May 2013 Thiruvananthapuram A case of the Kyasanur forest disease, a viral disease transmitted to human beings through a species of ticks usually found on monkeys, has been reported from the Noolpuzha-Aalathoor colony in Wayanad district. The 18-year-old patient now at the Government Medical College Hospital, Kozhikode,…
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