Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], September 15 (ANI): The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) is all set to launch an industry-oriented online certificate program on e-Mobility for working professionals.
New Delhi [India], July 15 (ANI): Indian Institute of Technology-Madras ranked first in overall higher education institutions in the seventh edition of the National Institute Ranking Framework, (NIRF) rankings 2022, on Friday.
Chennai Apr 24 PTI The total number of COVID-19 cases at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras IIT-M touched 60 on Sunday as against 55 a day earlier and the Health Department has urged the district authorities to be prudent and not let the guard down in controlling the spread of the virus With Tamil Nadu continuing to see an uptick in the daily cases Chief Minister M K Stalin is scheduled to chair a meeting with Collectors and district health officials on Monday to discuss the prevalence of COVID-19 in the State Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ma Subramanian said here on Sunday Principal Health Secretary J Radhakrishnan in his letter to the Collectors called for effective administration of vaccines to eligible people including administering of booster doses The Health Minister along with Radhakrishnan and senior department officials inspected the IIT-M campus today to take stock of the situation New infections at IIT-Madras have gone up to 60 till date As many as 2015 people were tested of the total 7300 at the institution Subramanian told reporters on the campus Noting that the spread of the infection was largely under control in Tamil Nadu Subramanian said the State was reporting nil fatalities for more than a month and appealed to the public not to panic due to the rise in cases The government has decided to hold a mega vaccination drive next month he said One lakh vaccination camps are planned across the State on May 8 The exercise will focus on 146 crore people who are yet to receive the second dose of vaccines and 54 lakh people are yet to receive the first dose the Minister said To those people aged above 60 and eligible to receive the booster dose the department is administering the vaccines daily he said Radhakrishnan in the letter said the recent cluster at IIT-Madras was a pointer to the urgent need to ensure and strictly enforce COVID-appropriate The rising cases is a pointer to increase in surveillance and ensure self-health monitoring and testing is advocated he said The Health Secretary said people continue to flout the mask rule in markets film theatres malls and the least the Health Department can do was to increase the awareness drive and enforce the decision on imposing the fine on violators On those tested COVID-19 positive he said the samples should be sent for whole genomic sequencing to determine the variant or sub-variant though only Omicron variant of COVID-19 was reported last month The situation is in control so far but it is always better to be prudent cautious and guarded and more importantly well-prepared and not let the guard down and also plan for effective administration of vaccinations he said On Saturday the cases at the institute climbed to 55 the State government saidPTI VIJ KHNVG NVG
Chennai Apr 20 PTI Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras IIT-M were working with the National Health Mission of Tamil Nadu to improve health of newborns as health workers were facing a major challenge at primary health centres PHCs in rural areas of the State A project report SmartNRP neonatal resuscitation programme was released by the National Health Mission Tamil Nadu director Darez Ahamed recently to reduce the maternal mortality rate in the presence IIT-Madras director-professor V Kamakoti among others A team at the IIT-Madras Centre of Excellence on virtual reality identified skill training of the health workers as the major challenge the country was facing particularly at the PHCs Using virtual reality artificial intelligencemachine learning the SmartNRP tool will be used for training the workers at PHCs in Tamil Nadu under the National Health Mission This will be scaled subsequently to other States where NMR is very high IIT-Madras said in a press release If you look at infant mortality the biggest contributor is the neonatal mortality rate NMR which is death within 28 days of birth Around 40 babies are lost per every 1000 births We want to bring this down to single digit and all these initiatives are towards this direction Ahamed said IIT-Madras should also develop tools to train healthcare workers on various other areas such as treating accident victimsthere are numerous other areas that virtual reality can be utilised he said Kamakoti said I am sure virtual reality will make impact not only on healthcare verticals but in other areas as well There are a lot of very interesting ideas from IIT-Madras research scholars and students The projects were supported by corporate social responsibility initiatives of INdiaIdeascomBillDesk This support was crucial in developing the healthcare projects the release said PTI VIJ NVG NVG
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