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One person died and around 70 others suffered from vomiting and diarrhoea at the Telangana government's Institute of Mental Health (IMH) here, officials said. The incident occurred on Tuesday, prompting an investigation into it. The patient who died was found unresponsive on Tuesday morning. Despite efforts by medical staff on duty to revive him with CPR, he was later declared dead at the state-run Osmania General Hospital (OGH), Hyderabad District Collector Anudeep Durishetty, who visited the IMH, told reporters. Nearly 70 other patients have reported vomiting and diarrhoea. Two patients whose blood pressure was low were admitted to the OGH and their condition was not serious, he said. The remaining patients were under observation in the mental hospital and a special team of doctors has been called to attend to them. All the patients are stable, he said. The district collector said water samples from the source in the IMH were sent to the state government's Institute of Prevent
As schools across Karnataka reopened on Monday after summer vacations, students in Bengaluru schools were spotted wearing masks as a precautionary measure amid surge in Covid-19 cases in the state recently. Students, teachers and non-teaching staffs in many schools across the state were wearing masks and maintained distance during interactions. Even parents who accompanied students to school were seen wearing masks as they came to drop their children on the first day of school. Covid-19 appropriate behaviour was seen being followed by students in many schools in Bengaluru City as they lined up at the entrance of the school maintaining distance while entering the premises. Their body temperatures were also being checked by the staffs. In view of the Covid-19 situation in the state and the reopening of schools, Karnataka government, in a circular issued on Friday, has asked parents not to send their children to school, if they have fever, cough, cold and other symptoms. The ...
Stripped of U.S funding, the World Health Organization chief on Monday appealed to member countries to support its extremely modest request for a USD 2.1 billion annual budget by putting that sum into perspective next to outlays for ad campaigns for tobacco or the cost of war. After nearly 80 years of striving to improve human lives and health - which critics say it has done poorly or not enough -- the U.N. health agency is fighting for its own after U.S. President Donald Trump in January halted funding from the United States, which has traditionally been WHO's largest donor. Two-point-one billion dollars is the equivalent of global military expenditure every eight hours, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. Two-point-one billion dollars is the price of one stealth bomber, to kill people. And USD 2.1 billion is one-quarter of what the tobacco industry spends on advertising and promotion every single year. Again, a product that kills people, he told the WHO's annual