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Hyderabad boy battling rare disease receives world’s most expensive medicine as parents mobilise Rs 16 cr

Ayaansh, son of Yogesh Gupta and Rupal Gupta, who is suffering from Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) was given Zolgensma on June 9 at Rainbow Children’s Hospital, Secunderabad, under the supervision of Dr. Ramesh Konanki, Consultant Pediatric Neurologist. ZOLGENSMA is the world’s most expensive drugs, which is currently not available in India. It is being imported from the USA at a cost of USD 2,125,000 (INR. 16 Crores).

“The parents were able to arrange the amount after going through crowdfunding by ImpactGuru, and the union finance ministry has waived off the tax worth around 6 crores I would like to request the Indian government to make this injection available in India for a price that can be afforded by every parent,” said Dr. Preetham Kumar, Consultant – Pediatrician and Pediatric Intensive Care, Rainbow Children’s Hospital Secunderabad.

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Sharpening income inequalities telling story of ‘uneven’ recovery: Subbarao

A study by the Azim Premji University has found that the one year of Covid-19 pandemic has pushed 230 million people into poverty with a 15 per cent increase in poverty rate in rural India and a 20 per cent surge in urban India,” Former RBI Governor D Subbarao said citing the findings of a study.

“Add to that CMIE data showing that the unemployment rate has gone up as high as 12 per cent in May, 10 million jobs have been lost just on account of the second wave and 97 per cent of the households in the country have experienced declines in incomes,” he added.

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PM Narendra Modi calls for ‘one earth one health’ approach for pandemic at G7 summit

Sources said Modi’s call for adopting a “one earth, one health” approach received support from German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

They said Australia and several other countries came out in strong support of Modi’s call to waive patents on coronavirus vaccines to boost their production. India and South Africa have come out with the proposal at the World Trade Organisation.

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G7 may reallocate $100 bln from IMF funds to COVID-ravaged nations

“The United States and our G7 partners are actively considering a global effort to multiply the impact of the proposed Special Drawing Rights (SDR) allocation to the countries most in need,” the U.S. president’s office said.

“At potentially up to $100 billion in size, the proposed effort would further support health needs – including vaccinations,” it said, adding that it would help promote a more sustained and inclusive global recovery.

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Chances of 3rd wave quite real, Delhi govt preparing on war-footing: CM

Indications are coming from the UK on the fear of the third wave. Cases are rising there, despite 45 per cent of vaccination. So, we cannot afford to sit idle, he said.Kejriwal was speaking at an online event during which he jointly inaugurated 22 new PSA oxygen plants at nine hospitals across Delhi.

”These new oxygen plants at nine hospitals across Delhi being added today to strengthen our preparations to fight Covid,” he said.

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IMA to hold country-wide protest on June 18 against assault of doctors

The Indian Medical Association has termed ”extremely disturbing” a series of violence against doctors in the last two weeks in Assam, Bihar, West Bengal, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, and other places.

It demanded the implementation of the central hospital and Health Care Professionals Protection Act with IPC and Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), standardization and augmentation of security in each hospital, and declaring hospitals as protected zones among others.

719 doctors have lost their lives due to coronavirus in the second wave of the COVID pandemic with Bihar recording the maximum fatalities.

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CoWIN hack and data leak is baseless: Govt

Dr R S Sharma, Chairman of the Empowered Group on Vaccine Administration, has clarified that “the claims of so-called hackers on the dark web, relating to alleged hacking of the Co-WIN system and data leak, is baseless. We continue to take appropriate steps as are necessary, from time to time, to ensure that the data of the people is safe with Co-WIN.”

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