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Daily Bulletin: Modi leads Yoga Day celebrations in Ranchi; Sitharaman to chair first GST council meet as finance minister; day's top stories
Fp Staff • 6 years agoThe world celebrates the fourth international yoga day on Friday, the 21st of June; The Lok Sabha will debate today the contentious triple talaq bill; Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will chair her first meeting of the GST Council; day's top stories
Encephalitis fever in Bihar: Muzaffarpur's SKMC Hospital converts prisoners' ward into ICU to accommodate more children
• 6 years agoFollowing the public outcry over lack of facilities in the government-run SKMC Hospital, management has converted a prisoners' ward into an ICU regarding the Encephalitis outbreak in Bihar
Encephalitis fever in Bihar: Supreme Court to hear plea seeking formation of team of experts for treatment of children on 24 June
• 6 years agoThe Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a plea seeking a direction to the Centre to urgently constitute a team of medical experts for the treatment of the children suffering from suspected Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) in Bihar's Muzaffarpur
Encephalitis in Bihar: 5 more children die due to brain fever outbreak at Muzaffarpur's SKMCH, 68 kids in ICU, confirms senior official
Fp Staff • 6 years agoThe SKMCH has reported 93 casualties so far due to AES and only 118 children have been discharged after treatment. The rest are undergoing treatment.
Encephalitis outbreak in Bihar's Muzaffarpur: Given the complex mix of symptoms, it may take decades to identify reasons causing brain fever
Sonal Matharu • 6 years agoThe brain-fever or Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) outbreak in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district, which has killed more than 60 children below the age of 10 in the last two weeks, is not new to this region. For over four decades, the wards of government hospitals in over 12 districts of Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh brim with unconscious kids suffering from high fever and convulsions each year, the actual cause of which remains unknown.
Encephalitis may not be real cause of children's deaths in Muzaffarpur; investigation necessary into possible toxins in lychees
Vipin Vashishtha • 6 years agoCurrently, the investigation of the 'encephalitis' outbreak in India looks like five blind people describing an elephant.
17 days after encephalitis outbreak, Nitish visits AES-hit Muzaffarpur, faces protests; orders slew of measures to contain damage
Fp Staff • 6 years agoSeventeen days after the outbreak of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome in Bihar, which is now threatening to assume the shape of a calamity, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar finally visited Muzaffarpur district, where over 100 children have succumbed to the disease
Encephalitis fever in Bihar: Activists protest outside Delhi's Bihar Bhawan, seek Nitish Kumar's resignation over death of children
• 6 years agoActivists from various organisations held a protest outside Bihar Bhawan over the death of more than 100 children due to encephalitis and asked for the resignation of Bihar CM Nitish Kumar.
Encephalitis deaths in Bihar: Lack of trained doctors, drinking water woes pose challenges in preventing spread of virus
Manoj Singh • 6 years agoCases of encephalitis have been reported throughout the year from Siwan, Gopalganj, East Champaran, Barauni and Gaya districts.
Six more children fall prey to encephalitis in Muzaffarpur as toll rises to 103; Bihar govt to provide Rs 4 lakh to family of victims
• 6 years agoSix children died on Monday in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district, taking the death toll to a suspected case of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) to 103.