-The Indian Express Hyderabad/ Bhubaneshwar: In neighbouring Telangana, where the government has not declared any ex-gratia, 486 deaths have been reported from 10 districts where temperatures have been consistently high. Of the 1,636 “heat wave” deaths reported between May 15 and May 30 in Andhra Pradesh, only a little over one-third have so far been certified to have been caused by heat. The number of deaths being reported to mandal officers, Andhra Disaster...
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Health ministry moots online sale of drugs; regulator works on guidelines -Sushmi Dey
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: As online shopping catches up, you could buy medicines too with a click of the mouse for which the health ministry is evaluating a proposal. The drug quality regulator is framing guidelines and mechanism to monitor such sale. The proposal is expected to be taken up for discussion in the drugs consultative committee meeting next month, a senior regulatory official said. At present, the Drugs & Cosmetics...
More »How to fight heat wave, the Odisha way -Richard Mahapatra
-Down to Earth Telangana and Andhra Pradesh could take cue from the state government on reducing number of heat stroke deaths In May, 1998 when I was travelling in Odisha, hospitals reported 2,042 deaths due to heat stroke across the state, right from the coastal cities to western regions. A doctor posted at a government hospital in the coastal town of Kendrapara said, “I have counted more deaths than births in a week....
More »Heat & dust raise Delhi’s air toxins to critical levels
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Day temperatures dropped marginally on Thursday but there was hardly any relief for weather-beaten Delhiites as toxins in the air rose alarmingly due to a cloud cover trapping pollutants. The capital's air quality index (AQI) breached the 'severe' level, going from 219 (poor) on Wednesday to 410 in one of the sharpest single-day spikes in recent months. Fine particle pollution (PM2.5) that AQI measures wasn't the...
More »Row over IMA nod for water purifier hots up -Rema Nagarajan
-The Times of India A bunch of concerned doctors and members of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) have written a letter demanding an explanation from the IMA for its decision to 'validate' Kent water purifiers. The slew of advertisements released by Kent, in which it has prominently claimed that its products were 'validated', 'approved' or 'accepted' by IMA has led to a slug fest, especially in the online world, between groups...
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