Mangaluru: Kanachur Institute of Medical Sciences launches tele-consultation services for patients

Vartha Bharati | 30-03-2020 | 16:11:00 IST

Mangaluru: In order to control the spreading of the COVID-19 after declaring lockdown in the country in our district several hospitals have suspended OPD services. In view of this several patients are in trouble without timely personal consultations of doctors and without getting  proper medicinal advice. Realizing this fact Kanachur Institute of Medical Sciences, Natekal, has started online tele-consultation service in the constituent Kanachur Hospital & Research Centre.

 Under this service people can contact the doctors sitting in their home. The doctors will give tele-consultation and medical advice for their health problems through WhatsApp.  As per the Kanachur Hospital announcement for this purpose the specialist doctors of nine departments will give their tele-consultation from 9.00AM to 4.00PM.

Other than this the people who are not having the social media service (WhatsApp) from rural areas they can directly contact the concerned department specialists  over phone by informing the disease details and obtain advices from the doctors through the hospital landline number 0824-2888000. The limit of the phone call is 10 minutes and the patients are requested to give appropriate information so that they can obtain consultation from the doctors.

And also so as to avoid the spreading of the disease the hospital has opened fever clinic for the welfare of the patients, which will be open from 9.00AM to 4.00PM on all working days in the entrance of the hospital.

As usual the Emergency Medicine, ICU, OBG and Paediatrics Departments with the specialised doctors will be available round the clock 24/7.

Patients are requested to provide their details through the watsapp number as mentioned in the table below along with their name, age, sex, weight and disease details along with the details of the previous prescription without fail. After verifying all these details the concerned doctors will call the patients or inform the suitable medicine in a prescription slip with the doctors (Registration No.) and whatsApp the same. After that they can purchase the prescribed medicine in the nearby medicals.

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3 held, hunt on for 4 accomplices after they kidnap, assault and urinate on man in Bhopal

30-04-2026 ¦ 30-04-2026 IST

Bhopal (PTI): Police have registered a case against seven persons and arrested three of them for allegedly kidnapping, assaulting and urinating on a 22-year-old man in Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal, officials said on Thursday.

The incident occurred during the intervening night of April 26 and 27 in an area located under the Hanumanganj police station limits, an official said.

One of the accused urinated on the face of the victim and captured a video of the act, which was later circulated on social media to humiliate him, he said.

"A complaint in this connection was lodged by Jaswant Markam (22), a resident of Kamla Nagar, based on which a case was registered against seven persons under sections of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and police have arrested three of them, including one Prem Thapa," Bhopal Police Commissioner Sanjay Kumar said.

Three police teams have been formed and the remaining suspects will be apprehended soon, he said.

During the intervening night of Sunday and Monday, Markam was at the local bus stand with a friend when around 4 am, the accused took him away on the pretext of discussing something with him. They asked him about his neighbour and friend Aniket. When he refused to provide any information, they started assaulting him, the police said.

The accused then took him to a forest in Karond area, where he was stripped and severely thrashed, they said.

When the man began to lose consciousness, one of the accused urinated on his face and made a video of the act, which was circulated on social media to humiliate him and spread terror, according to the police.

The accused called Markam's friend around 5 am to inform him about his condition. The victim was subsequently admitted to a hospital, the officials said, adding that the viral video was also being investigated.

Responding to a query, Hanumanganj police station in-charge Awdhesh Bhadoria said if the victim was found to be from the tribal community, then relevant sections will be invoked against the accused.

At present, the police are probing the incident and search is on to arrest the remaining accused, he added.

In 2023, a man had urinated on a tribal youth in Sidhi district of Madhya Pradesh. A video of the incident had gone viral on social media platforms and created a controversy.