The beats of tabla and drums echoed in the hall of Kauvery Hospital on Thursday where dementia patients and their caretakers had gathered for a music therapy workshop.
Author: Bhavani Prabhakar
Life was all well for Zoyeb Mohamed Zia until the age of 12. He was a footballer, swimmer and speaker. However, dawn of the doom’s day marked an end to the activities. When he was in class 10, Zoyeb’s limb coordination stopped, giving rise to plethora of malfunctions in him.
Here a cough, there a cough. Your throat goes parch, but the nose does not stop – mucus secretion keeps flowing. Have a kerchief? You’re safe, if not, brace up to be embarassed. No matter if it is blazing hot or Jack Frost or onset of any weather (I slyly ignore the ‘hot-hotter-hottest’ Chennai condition, though), common cold is inevitable.
The students of Middle School in MGR Nagar took part in ‘Kalvi seer vazhangum vizha’ with parents at Sri Prasanna Venkatesa Perumal temple, located just a few metres from their school.
With the season of exams fast approaching, invisible anxiety and stress associated with it is inevitable. Experts in the city urge parents not to dragoon their children as they point out that consulting a therapist itself is still a taboo.
‘News Today’ speaks to T C A Gopalakrishnan, a septuagenarian and autodidact, who belongs to the period when the art form underwent renaissance and also exhibited his digital art when it was still in the nascent stage.
A health camp and survey conducted by Tamilnadu Urban Sanitation Support Programme (TNUSSP) at Narasimhanaickenpalayam Town Panchayat recently, revealed that majority of the women sanitary workers were found to be anemic.
Activists state that the two viral conditions lead to 100 per cent mortality. To ensure the animals do not contract the viruses, Dinesh advises vaccinating stray animals once a year to provide immunity.
Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami has completed two years in office. He has made several significant announcements in healthcare with C Vijaya Bhaskar heading the portfolio of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. News Today highlights a few of the important orders.