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Hospitals managing without price hike despite cost pressure, says industry

Claims revenue from regular operations impacted by Covid-19, is down 60-80%

Max Healthcare says will become second largest healthcare chain by revenue

Max India completes merger of Radiant Life's hospital assets with self

India coronavirus dispatch: Why heart surgeries have got scaled back

From informal Indian economy in the time of pandemic, to making cities liveable for migrants, and why Mumbai still struggles to cope with coronavirus - read these and more in today's India dispatch

Will make Covid-19 tests affordable and accessible for all, says Thackeray

Maharashtra has reported over 65,000 Covid-19 positive cases which is highest among all the states

Notes from the front line on what it's like to deal with Covid-19

Our health care workers who risk their lives to save ours share their experience of dealing with Covid-19

Shinzo Abe wants to build ventilators that hospitals probably don't need

Abe wants Japanese companies to build 2,000 ventilators to add to an unused stock of 4,700 already in hospitals

Social infra: Viability gap funding boost may help create 45k hospital beds

Hospitals are a key part of social infrastructure now with the coronavirus pandemic raging across the country.

Andhra govt to invest Rs 16,200 cr to set up 10,000 rural health clinics

Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy conducted a review meeting on Nadu Nedu on Hospitals on Friday and instructed officials that the proposals to establish 10,000 YSR Health Clinics

Covid-19 outbreak: Mumbai races against time to create health care infra

Scrambles for new and experimental treatment protocol as cases surge past 10,000-mark

Wipro to repurpose its Pune facility into a 450-bed Covid-19 hospital

The process will be completed in four weeks and the IT firm will hand over the facility to the Maharashtra government by May 30

Covid-19 impact: Hospital stocks take a hit as number of patients falls

While elective surgeries that form 60-70 per cent of volumes are getting postponed, revenue from medical tourism too, is at a standstill

586 hospitals to treat coronavirus patients, over 11000 ICU beds: Govt

According to the Health Ministry, 1,035 fresh Covid-19 cases and 40 deaths due to the disease were reported in the last 24 hours across the country

ESIC reserves 2152 hospital beds for coronavirus patients' treatment

This constitutes for around 10 per cent of the total 21,931 hospital beds which ESIC had till March 2018 (latest publicly available data).

Covid-19: Tele-consultations pick up as patients avoid visiting hospitals

The Cloudnine Group of Hospitals, a maternity, childcare and fertility care group of hospitals has announced the launch of its tele-consultation service with doctors

Coronavirus outbreak: States scramble to create hospital infrastructure

In the past one week, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Andhra Pradesh have issued orders to take over private hospitals in some districts

Houston hospital first in US to try coronavirus blood transfusion therapy

Plasma from someone who has recovered from Covid-19 contains antibodies made by the immune system to attack the virus

Covid-19: IIT Delhi makes anti-infection fabric to curb hospital infections

The team claims to have developed an affordable, novel textile-processing technology, which converts regular cotton fabric into infection-proof fabric

Pneumonia patients to be tested for coronavirus after govt advisory

The ministry said that all doctors, nurses, and support staff in different specialties should be mobilised and trained in infection prevention and control practices.

Social distancing amid virus pushes patients to consult doctors online

Digital healthcare platform Practo, for example, has seen a jump of three to four times in requests for consultation with general physicians

Here's how Indian tech firm BlinkIn helped China fight coronavirus

A Bengaluru tech firm helped German engineers remotely set up facilities in Chinese hospitals, reports Peerzada Abrar