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Cyclothon in bangalore

vinod_shankar - 10-SEP-2009

In the last week or so i have been observing full page ads about a cyclothon in bangalore sometime on october.  Seems interesting, atleast finally the need for encouraging cycling has been realized.  More details about the event can be found  here.  We should use this as a push for bicyc

Disproportionate Budget for health care

E.R. Ramachandran - 30-AUG-2009

This year parts of India have been devastated by swirling viruses which is spreading across the country.Dengue and Chikun Gunya in particular were predominant in most localities in Bangalore and ot

Doctors ask citizens not to panic over H1N1 scare

vaishvittal - 18-AUG-2009

Even as Bangalore reports its first H1N1-linked fatality, doctors in the city are asking the public not to panic. Also attached: list of hospitals treating H1N1 in the city.

Public Toilet PPP Initiative

nagrajprabhu - 8-AUG-2009

I am proposing a PPP initiative to manage public toilets that are constructed and are in a pathetic condition or not really accessible to citizens when it is really required.

Doctors, public, BBMP, out of step as viral fevers rage

vaishvittal - 23-JUL-2009

As Bangaloreans are down with chikungunya and dengue, BBMP officials, private hospitals and citizens blame each other for the mosquito menace.

Jeevan se mukti!

murali772 - 15-JUL-2009

The ICU at this 300-bed hospital is yet to be functional, though it was inaugurated six months ago. The hospital is waiting for equipment!

Is it worthwhile to visit a government hospital at all?

murali772 - 26-JUN-2009

When the “who’s who” of the secretariat are preferring quarantine services of private nursing homes and corporate hospitals over government hospitals, it remains a complex question in common people’s mind, whether it is worthwhile to visit a government hospital at all.

Minister asks KSPCB to withdraw closure notices on served on govt hospitals

murali772 - 22-JUN-2009

Medical Education Minister Ramachandre Gowda has said that the government would direct the beleaguered Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) to withdraw the closure notice slapped by it on nine government hospitals for lack of permanent effluent treatment plants (ETPs).

More government hospitals for the city???

murali772 - 9-MAY-2009

Amongst the several projects supposedly announced earlier, and proposed to be taken up now, are four government hospitals on the lines of Victoria and Bowring medicare institutes to be built on land to be identied by BDA, going by  

Street Cleanliness

akhilaravi - 23-DEC-2008

IMG_0002I stay in one of the oldest locality in Bangalore i.e Banashankari I stage, very near to Hanumanthnagar. Recently corporation introduced the system of collecting the Household garbage thru the street cleaning persons. Now they have the push-trolley with plastic bin's which they suppose to come near each house and collect the household garbage. These garbage need to be dumped to another van which collects the garbage from the whole area and take to designated place.