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Kallakurichi district gets additional oxygen supported beds
The Hindu
Minister for Medical and Family Welfare Ma. Subramanian on Monday inspected containment areas and availability of oxygen beds in Kallakurichi.Mr. Subramanian, accompanied by Minister for Higher Educat
Minister for Medical and Family Welfare Ma. Subramanian on Monday inspected containment areas and availability of oxygen beds in Kallakurichi. Mr. Subramanian, accompanied by Minister for Higher Education K. Ponmudi, also inaugurated additional bed facilities in Chinna Salem and Sankarapuram General Hospitals. He said that 76 beds with oxygen support have been added in the district. The State has been recording a dip in new cases over the past few days. The number of discharges was also higher than fresh admission in hospitals. This was a positive sign, he said.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.