By Col. Binu Sharma, Senior Vice President- Nursing Services, Columbia Asia Hospitals We are living in unprecedented times, as we have to step up our efforts to provide the most optimum, safe care to our patients during the global COVID-19 crisis. This year is significantly shining a light on the contribution […]
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What Happens To Our Body When There Is A Nutrition Deficiency?
By Ms.Pavithra N Raj, Chief Dietician, Columbia Asia Referral Hospital Yeshwanthpur Body needs various types of nutrition to keep a person healthy and fit. Nutrition can be divided into macro and micronutrients. When body is a deficit in major macronutrients it doesn’t show much of symptoms but with micronutrients, some symptoms […]
‘Worse Before It Gets Better’; Deaths Climb Again; Will Medical Practices Survive?
— A daily roundup of news on COVID-19 and the rest of medicine As of 8:00 a.m. ET Wednesday, the unofficial COVID-19 toll in the U.S. was 3,902,233 cases and 142,073 deaths, up about 70,000 and 1,150, respectively, from this time a day ago. As Florida cases climbed, the state’s top teachers’ […]
I tested positive for coronavirus after my 60th birthday party – Kennedy Agyapong
Source: www.ghanaweb.com After marking his 60th birthday with a brief ceremony which hosted close family and friends, Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong has revealed that he tested positive for the coronavirus days after his party. “It was after my 60th birthday party which I resisted so much and it exposed […]
Ghanaian Times: Closure of schools must be based on scientific data
Source: Ghanaian Times Within the past few days, the decision of the government to re-open schools to enable final year students to write their examination has generated a lot of heated debate on several media platforms, in the wake of confirmed COVID-19 cases in some schools. While some groups have […]







