Health

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.

As talks of vaccines acquire a shrill pitch, we speak to mortuary workers at one of the biggest public hospitals in the city. And how they saw us through the hard days in the past few months.

Urbanisation affects women’s mental health in various ways. It is tougher for women from marginalised sections of the society. Here’s how.

Infectious diseases, historically, have risen and fallen with season. Although numbers of positive COVID-19 cases have fallen, experts advice caution.