Road traffic accidents and fall from a height of more than 10 feet topped the list of critical head injuries in children who are admitted to paediatric intensive care, a multi-centre observational study on children with trauma in Chennai and Bengaluru has found. The study, Trauma Research in Paediatrics, carried out for over two years with data collection from July …
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is announcing relief measures to boost health infrastructure and exports among others. The total financial implication of this free visa scheme would be Rs 100 crore. Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme An additional Rs 1.5 lakh crore has been granted under the Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme, which was announced last year. Rs 50,000 crore …
Going by sero-surveillance reports, COVID-19 infection in children above 10 years occurs in similar frequency to that of adults, notes the ‘Guidelines on Operationalization of COVID Care Services for Children and Adolescents’, released by the Health Ministry earlier this week. While children have less severe disease compared to adults, intermittent surges in the number of cases are anticipated and so …
With a record number of children testing positive for COVID-19 in Karnataka, the government is preparing to protect the younger ones from a possible third wave of the pandemic. Between March 2020 and September 2020 when the first wave was at its peak, Karnataka reported 19,378 cases among children under the age of 10. Women and Child Welfare Minister Shashikala …
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