Source: www.ghanaweb.com President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged Ghanaians to learn to live with the novel Coronavirus. This was contained in his live televised broadcast to the nation on Sunday, July 26, 2020. “…we have to learn to adapt to the conditions. It is not normal that we have to wear masks, but […]
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Q&A: What Is Herd Immunity? And How Do We Get There On Covid-19?
Add to the pandemic lexicon another once-obscure term that’s come into common usage: “herd immunity. Along with “flatten the curve,” “social distancing” and “super spreader,” it’s a phrase that prior to Covid-19 was casually uttered mainly by epidemiologists and public health officials. But while the meanings of those other terms […]
Upskilling Of Nurses During COVID-19 Pandemic
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 […]
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’ […]







