Category: Amazing Feats

** Lunar Exports donates medical kits in Mysuru

As part of the CII Mysuru Covid initiative, Bastian Joseph, managing director of Lunar Exports (Walkmate), handed over 4,000 medical kits, worth Rs 10 lakh, for the home isolation Covid patients in Mysuru to Shilpa Nag, commissioner, Mysuru City Corporation, last week

** International award for C.N.R. Rao

Bharat Ratna Professor C.N.R. Rao has been selected for the International Eni Award 2020 for research in energy frontiers. This is considered to be the Nobel Prize in energy research.

Professor Rao has been working on hydrogen energy as the only source of energy for the benefit of all mankind. Storage, photochemical and electrochemical production of hydrogen, solar production of hydrogen and non-metallic catalysis were the highlights of the work.

** Five-in-one wearable device developed in Bengaluru to monitor vitals of cardiac patients

A five-in-one wearable telemetric device is being used to monitor the vital parameters of Covid and non-Covid cardiac patients at the Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Science and Research.

The device developed by Cardiac Design Labs is named “Padma Vitals”.

** Campaign to vaccinate 11 lakh in Bengaluru launched

The Bangalore Apartments’ Federation (BAF), an association of over 950 apartment complexes in the city, launched #Vax4All campaign to facilitate COVID-19 vaccination support to residents’ welfare associations across the city.

This is expected to cover 10.98 lakh citizens, including residents and staff working there.

** Medicine man: Bengaluru doctor with a mobile clinic treats Covid patients in their homes

Every morning at 8 am, Dr Sunil Kumar Hebbi takes his car out for duty – not to head to a clinic or hospital, but to take his mobile clinic to treat patients in their homes.

For the past decade, 37-year-old Dr Hebbi, a resident of Malleswaram, has been running the mobile clinic through his Matru Siri Foundation to treat the poor free of charge. But the current health crisis has demanded more of his time, and he’s been on double duty.