By winning a lottery of Rs 16 crore, through a compassionate access programme of Direct Relief organisation, she was able to receive Zolgensma, a gene therapy treatment at Bangalore Baptist Hospital.
** Class 10 students create a self-sanitising bench ‘SAFE’
SAFE, created by five students from Shiv Nadar School, is a bench installed with UV sterilising light to reduce the transmission of infection
** Udupi girl Shilpa Hegde in Australian Liberal Party’s decision-making panel
Shilpa, who works as an IT consultant for global company DWS, said that she feels good to be on the executive committee as her party shows concerns for the migrant population in Australia.
** Coastal Karnataka’s first CNG station commissioned in Mangaluru
The Netravathi service station of the Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) at Adyar on the Mangaluru-Bengaluru National Highway 75 became the first station of the coastal belt supplying CNG to private and commercial vehicles. GAIL Gas Ltd, a subsidiary of GAIL India Ltd., supplied CNG to it. It is priced at ₹55 a kg.
** Two psychiatrists chosen for award
Manasa Trust of Shivamogga, an institution dedicated to mental health, has chosen psychiatrists Swaminath Gopala Rao and Jagadisha Thirthahalli for Kateel Ashok Pai memorial Manasa National Awards for the year 2020.
** Two psychiatrists chosen for award
** Women have won more than 50% of gram panchayat seats in Karnataka
** Software tool for automated diagnosis of COVID-19 lung infection
IISc-led team comes up with AnamNet, which is freely available to the public
** Bengaluru doctors remove a 3.5 kg tumour from 15-year-old girl’s neck
The team of doctors at Aster CMI Hospital, who conducted the surgeries, said Surbhi first came to them in December 2019.
** Fourth satellite mobile lab rolled out in IISc
The Indian Institute of Science and the Society for Innovation and Development (SID), with support from non-government and private partners, have designed a mobile diagnostic lab, M4 Nodal Hub which is equipped to carry out RT-PCR tests for COVID-19.