Bengaluru Municipal corporation opens 31 fever clinics
Bengaluru: The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, the metropolitan municipal corporation of Bengaluru on Sunday started 31 fever clinics in Bengaluru.
Working on a war-footing, the BBMP set up these clinics a day after announcing the launch of these hospitals.
These clinics will work all the week days including government holidays from 9 am to 4.30 pm where the fever test camp will be held, the BBMP said in a press release.
The BBMP said these clinics have been equipped with all the necessary equipment and adequate number of doctors and paramedics.
"Fever clinics are being set up in Bengaluru under the guidance of Special Commissioner Dr Ravi Kumar Surpur which will help ramp up infrastructure and thereby increase the number of First Response Clinics during the lockdown," the BBMP said in a statement.
It also said drugs and medicines, protocols, staffing, sanitization and surveillance were issues focused on during the video conferencing with 187 BBMP Health Centres.
The Palike also said that seventeen hotels have been identified in the city to quarantine the suspected COVID-19 patients. Air-conditioners will not be used in these hotels.
Payments will be made to these hotels based on the occupancy of patients.
The BBMP also set up a war room to deal with the coronavirus patients. The doctors deployed have been trained on how to handle patients walking in with #Covid19 symptoms, Palike said in a press release.
The civic agency said 187 frontline warriors were trained concurrently.
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Karnataka Legislative Assembly budget session curtailed by a day, to conclude on Mar 26
Bengaluru (PTI): The Budget session of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly has been curtailed by a day, to conclude on March 26, reportedly due to upcoming bypolls for two Assembly seats in the state.
The state legislature's Budget session, which began on March 6, with Chief Minister Siddaramaiah presenting the Budget for 2026-27 was originally scheduled to conclude on March 27.
Speaker U T Khader announced this in the House on Tuesday, following a meeting of the Legislative Assembly's Business Advisory Committee (BAC).
"As per the decision of the BAC, discussion on the Budget and demands will conclude today (March 24). The CM will reply to these discussions on March 26, following which the Appropriation Bill will be taken up for discussion and passage. After transacting business on March 26, the House will be adjourned sine die," he said.
Though the Speaker did not mention why the session was curtailed by a day, official sources said it was done keeping the upcoming by-elections in mind, as leaders, ministers, and legislators would participate in campaigning.
Leader of the Opposition R Ashoka and Labour Minister Santosh Lad indicated on Monday that the session might be curtailed due to by-elections.
Two Assembly seats in the state --Bagalkot and Davangere South-- will go to bypolls on April 9.
Bypolls for the Bagalkot and Davanagere South Assembly constituencies were necessitated by the deaths of senior Congress MLAs H Y Meti and Shamanur Shivashankarappa, respectively.
