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Now, consult docs through video conference

08.04.2020

If you are unwell and finding it difficult to consult a doc-tor due to the lockdown, then the Indian Medical Association’s Tamil Nadu branch has a solution for you. The branch has developed and launched a telemedicine platform for video consultation of stable patients and is supported by doctors across state. The service was launched on Tuesday on the occasion of the World Health Day. The service is available from 8am to 10pm and is being offered for free till the Covid-19 ends. Patients can vis-it www.instaclinix-.com and follow simple steps to consult a doctor. After opening the site, enter basic details with complaints and submit, wait in a virtual waiting room and consult a doctor through video consultation. The doctor will also send an e-prescription through email.

Cooking food for needy:

Sabki Rasoi, an initiative started to serve freshly cooked meals to the needy, has delivered 15,720 meal packets in Chennai with the help of five partners since April 5. More details about the initiative can be had at info.sabkirasoi@indianpac.com and at 6900869008.

Daily parcel cargo trains from April 9: The weekly parcel cargo express special trains announced by Southern Railway earlier between Chennai Central and New Delhi will be made a daily special from April 9 to 14. A press re-lease said booking of parcels are open.

Man traps cobra, held: Tiruvallur forest officials arrested a man, 26, on charges of inflicting cruelty on a cobra, a Schedule I rep-tile. He was remanded to judicial custody. A forest officer said he received a video taken by a television channel in which a man, later identified as Yuvaraj of Kakkalur, is seen trapping a cobra from the wild.