Mangaluru: A delegation of Dakshina Kannada District Administration, on Thursday, visited the Indiana Hospital in the city. The delegation included District In-Charge Minister Kota Srinivas Poojary, MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, and Deputy Commissioner Sindhu B Rupesh.
The delegation took stock of the treatment, facilities, and services provided to the COVID-19 patients at the hospital. The visit of the delegation comes on the back of people raising concerns and complaints on social media platforms against the hospital.
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The delegation sought reports like details of COVID patients admitted to the hospital, their bills, reserved beds for COVID patients at the hospital, a list of patients cured, and deceased among others.
Dr. Yousuf Kumble, the Director of the hospital provided all the reports and answered the queries of the authorities.
Local MLA Vedavyas Kamat, DHO Dr. Ratnakar were also part of the visiting delegation.


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Bengaluru: The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation will operate 1000 additional special services in view of the Christmas festival.
In addition to the existing schedule, the special services will run on 19.12.2025, 20.12.2025 and 24.12.2025. Further, special buses will be operated from various places of intra & Interstate places to Bengaluru on 26.12.2025 & 28.12.2025.
Special buses will be exclusively operated from Bengaluru Kempegowda Bus Station to Dharmastala, Kukkesubramanya, Shivamogga, Hassan, Mangaluru, Kundapura, Shringeri, Horanadu, Davangere, Hubbali, Dharwad, Belagavi, Vijayapura, Gokarna, Sirsi, Karwar, Raichur, Kalaburagi, Ballari, Koppala, Yadgir, Bidar, Tirupathi, Vijayawada, Hyderabad and other places.
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Special buses from Mysuru Road Bus Station will be exclusively operated towards Mysuru, Hunsur, Piriyapatna, Virajpet, Kushalanagar, Madikeri.
The corporation has also announced a discount of 5 per cent on the fare if four or more passengers book tickets under a single reservation. A discount of 10 per cent will be extended on return journey tickets if onward and return tickets are booked simultaneously.
In addition to the above, special buses will be operated from all Taluk/District Bus Stands in the jurisdiction of KSRTC based on the traffic needs.
