Health

Chaos reigns outside a state-run hospital in rural Maharashtra, with families – many from Adivasi communities – seeking beds or grieving a loss in a district ill-equipped to handle COVID19.

Because of the shortage of medical-grade oxygen supply and high demands across India, a IITB team decided to work on a design which allows patients to breathe in unused exhaled oxygen, filtered to remove carbon dioxide.

Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) have been the world’s worst-affected minority during the current pandemic. This Mumbai group is helping them.

If you are in Mumbai and feel ill, this will help you decide what to do

Murad Banaji, a mathematician at Middlesex University, London has been looking at Mumbai’s Covid data. In an exclusive interview, he shares his calculations for the ‘second wave’.

Need a a COVID bed at a hospital in Mumbai? Promising a bed to someone in need of it? Please read what BMC has to say.

Health officials are identifying more and more TB patients to keep them from being affected with COVID19.

Here’s a step by step guide to getting vaccinated in Mumbai.

Health workers say many neighbourhoods in the city are unaware of the vaccine and some people are against taking them.

Government has fixed standards that milk should have to be fit for human consumption. But, is adulterated milk the norm?

Unlike cities like Pune which have provisions for participatory budgeting and provisions to accept and incorporate citizen suggestions, BMC does not.

About five years ago, Manoj Gopalkrishnan, a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, heard about the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus or MERS-COV outbreak.