Karnataka CM’s wife hospitalised
The Hindu
She was rushed to Manipal Hospital on Old Airport Road in Bengaluru after she developed fever and complained of respiratory problem.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s wife Parvathi was admitted to a private hospital on June 20 night. She was rushed to Manipal Hospital on Old Airport Road after she developed fever and complained of respiratory problem.
She was admitted to the MICU, and will be moved to the ward soon. According to a bulletin issued by the hospital, her condition is stable.
The doctor attending to her is Guruprasad Bhat, consultant pulmonologist at the hospital. He said she has symptoms of mild pneumonia. She is on antibiotics and recovering, he said.
Chief Minister’s son Yathindra Siddaramaiah said his mother will need to be in hospital for a few days. Mr Siddaramaiah, who visited the hospital to enquire about her health, said she is doing fine.
Several principals of government and private schools in Delhi on Tuesday said the Directorate of Education (DoE) circular from a day earlier, directing schools to conduct classes in ‘hybrid’ mode, had caused confusion regarding day-to-day operations as they did not know how many students would return to school from Wednesday and how would teachers instruct in two modes — online and in person — at once. The DoE circular on Monday had also stated that the option to “exercise online mode of education, wherever available, shall vest with the students and their guardians”. Several schoolteachers also expressed confusion regarding the DoE order. A government schoolteacher said he was unsure of how to cope with the resumption of physical classes, given that the order directing government offices to ensure that 50% of the employees work from home is still in place. On Monday, the Commission for Air Quality Management in the National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas (CAQM) had, on the orders of the Supreme Court, directed schools in Delhi-NCR to shift classes to the hybrid mode, following which the DoE had issued the circular. The court had urged the Centre’s pollution watchdog to consider restarting physical classes due to many students missing out on the mid-day meals and lacking the necessary means to attend classes online. The CAQM had, on November 20, asked schools in Delhi-NCR to shift to the online mode of teaching.