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Covid-19 crisis: Move to turn hotels into hospitals raises temperature
The Delhi government's recent order to attach hotels to serve as extensions of hospitals to provide for the shortfall of beds and medical facilities for Covid-19 patients has baffled many hoteliers
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Covid-19 crisis: No plan for another shutdown, says Delhi CM Kejriwal
A decision on capping hospitalisation charges by private hospitals will come after the NITI Aayog member VK Paul-headed committee gives its recommendations in the next two days.
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Frontline Covid-19 workers should be encouraged, not ostracised: Bombay HC
The state government had opposed the plea saying the petitioner should be more sensitive towards the essential workers who are engaged in combating the pandemic
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Amit Shah, LG, CM Kejriwal to meet over Covid-19 situation in Delhi
The meeting comes in the wake of rising cases of the coronavirus in Delhi which reached 36,000 and the pandemic so far claimed more than 1,200 lives in the capital
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Delhi govt asks Covid-19 hospitals to make oxygen available on all beds
Delhi government has authorised the hospitals to purchase the necessary equipments Against DSHM funds
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Families scramble to get patients treated as Delhi govt claims enough beds
The fear of the infection almost equals the dread of navigating the complicated testing protocols and getting to the right doctor, say residents
India Coronavirus Dispatch: Why are hospitals bent on testing all patients?
Roundup of news in Indian publications on how India is dealing with Covid-19--cases in South Asia rising at fastest rate, widespread facemask use prevents further wave of virus, Dharavi's war on virus
 "India Coronavirus Dispatch: Why are hospitals bent on testing all patients?")
Delhi will need 80,000 hospital beds for Covid patients by July: Kejriwal
After Lieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal reversed the decision to reserve hospitals for the city's residents, CM Arvind Kejriwal said the Delhi govt would follow the Centre's order
Delhi govt hospitals to be reserved for city residents, says Kejriwal
Some private hospitals will be reserved for Delhiites too, says chief minister.
Delay in treatment is negligence
The commission awarded Rs 10 lakh as compensation, out of which, Rs 8 lakh would be payable by hospital
Hospitals managing without price hike despite cost pressure, says industry
Claims revenue from regular operations impacted by Covid-19, is down 60-80%
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Max Healthcare says will become second largest healthcare chain by revenue
Max India completes merger of Radiant Life's hospital assets with self
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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