Ex-MLA Dr YC Vishwanath is no more
Bengaluru, May 20: Former MLA from Kadur constituency of Chikmagaluru, Dr YC Vishwanath passed away at a private hospital in Bengaluru on Sunday after a prolonged illness. He was 68.
His wife Suvarnamma was died around six months ago. He is survived by his two sons- Pradeep and Pavan and a daughter Divya.
Vishwanath, son of YN Chandrashekaraiah of Yallabalase of Kaduru, has got MBBS degree from Mysore Medical College and started his career as a government. Later, he served in Kadur government hospital and earned name and fame.
After taking voluntary retirement in 1999, he had unsuccessfully contested the Assembly election from BJP and in 2008, he had contested the election, but was defeated. When then Kadur MLA KM Krishnamurthy was died, Vishwanath contested the by-election to the constituency in 2010 and won on BJP ticket.
After serving as MLA for three years, Vishwanath has been working in Maruti hospital. Interestingly, Vishwanath has actively campaigned in favour of BJP candidate Belli Prakash this time. But after the next day of election result, Vishwanath felt uncomfortable situation. Later, he was admitted to a private hospital in Bengaluru for more treatment. But he breathed his last in Bengaluru hospital on Sunday, family sources said.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
