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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Absconding accused with 35 warrants held at Mangaluru airport

18-04-2026 ¦ 18-04-2026 IST

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Mangaluru: A man against whom 35 arrest warrants had been issued for failing to appear before court was arrested at Mangaluru International Airport upon his arrival from abroad.

The accused, identified as Abbas G, a resident of Peruvai in Bantwal, was wanted in connection with a case registered at Vital Police Station under Sections 143 (unlawful assembly), 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting with deadly weapons), 504 (provoke with intention of breach of peace), 506 (criminal intimidation), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 324 (voluntarily causing hurt using weapons), and 326 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt) read with 149 of the Indian Penal Code.

Abbas had repeatedly failed to appear before the court for trial and had been absconding abroad for a prolonged period.

Acting on specific information about his return, immigration authorities alerted the police, following which a team from Vital Police Station apprehended him at the airport.

The operation was carried out by Head Constable Mohan and Police Constables Venkappa.

He was subsequently produced before the jurisdictional court, which remanded him in judicial custody.