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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Interstate cyber-fraud racket busted in UP's Baghpat, 7 held

21-12-2025 ¦ 21-12-2025 IST

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Baghpat (PTI): An interstate cyber-fraud racket involved in duping people on the pretext of providing bank jobs was busted by police in this Uttar Pradesh district on Sunday with the arrest of seven people, including two women, officials said.

Police said the accused were running a fake call centre and luring job seekers from several states by issuing forged appointment letters and fabricated agreements in the name of bank recruitment, collecting large sums of money in return.

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Twelve mobile phones, two laptops, two SIM cards on fake names, several forged appointment letters and agreements, 15 bank passbooks, two chequebooks, UPI QR codes, ATM cards and 11 other cards were seized from the possession of the accused, police said, adding that the data of around 6,450 people from different states was found stored in the laptops.

According to the officials, the gang misused information obtained from online platforms, such as OLX and job-related websites, to target unsuspecting victims.

The racket was uncovered following complaints received on the Union home ministry's "Pratibimb" portal and subsequent technical surveillance.

Investigations revealed at least 20 complaints from various states, including Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Assam and Meghalaya.

The arrested accused were identified as Mohit Kumar, Puneet Kumar, Vardaan, Anuj Kumar and Akshay, besides the two women.

They were arrested at around 11:30 am from under the Eastern Peripheral Expressway in the Kotwali Baghpat area.

A case has been registered at the cyber crime police station under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and section 66D of the Information Technology Act, police said.