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Cabinet nod for Bilaspur AIIMS in Himachal

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New Delhi, Jan 3 (IANS) The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday approved the establishment of an AIIMS facility in Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh, at a cost of Rs 1,351 crore.

The Bilaspur All India Institute of Medical Sciences would be completed within 48 months.

“The institute will consist of a hospital with a capacity of 750 beds and trauma centre facilities.

“It will have a medical college with an intake of 100 MBBS students per year. Nursing college with an intake of 60 B.Sc. (Nursing) students per year,” said an official statement.

The cabinet further said that residential complexes and allied facilities in the hospital will be broadly on the pattern of AIIMS, New Delhi.

“The hospital will have 20 Speciality/Super-Speciality Departments including 15 Operation Theatres.

“It will also have an Ayush Department with 30 beds for providing treatment facilities in traditional system of medicine,” said the cabinet.

This is under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY).

Several other AIIMS have been established under the scheme, including in Bhubaneswar, Bhopal, Raipur, Jodhpur, Rishikesh and Patna while work on an AIIMS in Rae Bareli is in progress.

Also, three AIIMS in Nagpur (Maharashtra), Kalyani (West Bengal) and Mangalagiri in Guntur (Andhra Pradesh) were sanctioned in 2015; two AIIMS have been sanctioned at Bathinda and Gorakhpur in 2016 and an AIIMS in Kamrup (Assam).

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Covid toll in Karnataka is a worrying sign for state government

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Even though Karnataka recorded the lowest number of Covid deaths in April since the virus struck first in 2020, the state is recording a rise in the positivity rate (1.50 per cent). Five people died from the Covid infections in April as per the statistics released by the state health department. In March, the positivity rate stood around 0.53 per cent. In the first week of April it came down to 0.38 per cent, second week registered 0.56 per cent, third week it rose to 0.79 per cent and by end of April the Covid positivity rate touched 1.19 per cent.

on an average 500 persons used to succumb everyday in the peak of Covid infection, as per the data. Health experts said that the mutated Coronavirus is losing its fierce characteristics as vaccination, better treatment facilities and awareness among the people have contributed to the lesser number of Covid deaths.

During the 4th and 6th of April two deaths were reported in Bengaluru, one in Gadag district on April 8, two deaths were reported from Belagavi and Vijayapura on April 30. The first Covid case was reported in the state in March 2020 and three Covid deaths were recorded in the month. In the following month 21 people became victims to the deadly virus, and May 2020 recorded 22 deaths. The death toll recorded everyday after May crossed three digits. However, the third wave, which started in January 2

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