Ventilators
- Technology
AI to predict Covid patients at dire need for ventilators
New York: US researchers have developed an online tool using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help medical staff quickly determine which Covid-19 patients will need help breathing with a ventilator. The team at Case…
- Offbeat
4-yr-old Russian boy who spent 3 years on ventilator gets new lungs
Chennai: A four-year-old Russian boy who was on ventilator for the past three years at MGM Healthcare is now doing fine after a bilateral lung transplant, said doctors here. The Russian boy was…
- India
PM CARES paid only Rs 1,532 crore for ventilators ordered in April, reveals RTI
New Delhi: In 2021, India saw a devastating impact of the second wave of COVID-19 that left the country with innumerable deaths, people gasping for breath, and fighting for essentials like ventilators…
- Entertainment
Big B donates ventilators, medical equipment to civic hospital in Mumbai
Mumbai: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has donated two high-tech ventilators and some other medical equipment to a civic-run hospital in Mumbai, the BMC said on Wednesday. According to a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)…
- Technology
Software to help identify patients who may require ventilator support
New Delhi: A software can now identify whether a patient will require ventilator support in an ICU or referral, and will make necessary arrangements before emergency sets in. At a time when sudden…
- Telangana
1,405 ventilators given to Telangana, says Kishan Reddy
Hyderabad: Union Minister of State for Home Affairs G. Kishan Reddy on Friday said that the Centre has provided 1,405 ventilators to Telangana under the PM CARES Fund. Reddy said these ventilators…
- India
Twins from Meerut die hours apart battling COVID-19
The second wave of COVID-19 has hit the country and made irreparable damages. In one such instance from Meerut, two twin brothers who were born three minutes apart, Joefred Varghese Gregory and Ralfred…
- India
PM Cares Fund ventilators faulty, says Maha hospital report
Mumbai: Barely 3 days after the centre ordered an audit of all ventilators given by the centre, a report by the Government Medical College & Hospital (GMCH) Aurangabad, has contended that many…
- World
COVID-19: 53 ventilators arrive in India from Denmark
New Delhi: A shipment carrying 53 ventilators from Denmark landed here in India on Friday to support the country’s fight against COVID-19. “Taking forward our ties that is based on historical links…
- India
HC calls for reports on COVID-19 issues
Chennai: The Madras High Court on Wednesday directed the Tamil Nadu government to file reports on the availability of oxygen, Sterlite’s role in making available the same and on the issue relating…
- India
COVID-19: IAF airlifts 900 oxygen cylinders from Britain
New Delhi: The first batch of 900 oxygen cylinders offered by the British Oxygen Company was airlifted by Indian Air Force (IAF) to India on Monday. The British Oxygen Company has offered…
- India
Amazon to airlift 100 ICU ventilator units from US to India
New Delhi : E-commerce major Amazon on Tuesday announced that it has procured 100 ventilators and will import these to India, in its bid to help the country fight the devastating second wave…
- World
US says it will provide vaccine raw materials to India
Washington DC: The raw material urgently required for the Indian manufacture of Covishield vaccine will immediately be made available to India, the White House said on Sunday local time. Earlier in the…
- Featured News
‘The virus was kind enough to give you almost a year to act’
By Rithvik Golla New Delhi: On a usual day, you walk into the AIIMS casualty, it is buzzing with patients everywhere. Residents scrambling from pillar to post to sort outpatient issues. Working…
- Pakistan
Pak offers support to India amid COVID-19 surge: Foreign Minister Qureshi
Islamabad: As a gesture of solidarity, Pakistan has offered relief and support to India in the wake of the current wave of COVID-19, said Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Saturday. “As…
