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Chennai mid-level nurses suspended their hunger strike after talks with the Health Secretary, but warned of a statewide agitation from November 3 if pay, permanency and pending dues are not settled.
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Karnataka ASHA workers protested in Karwar, Shivamogga and Hassan demanding Rs 15,000 monthly remuneration and relief from entering SAMASTA health data on their personal phones.
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Around 4,000 nurses of the TN Intermediate Health Workers' Association began a hunger strike in Chennai on October 5, demanding ₹45,000 monthly salary, equal pay and permanent jobs. Their counsel alleges five leaders invited to the Secretariat for talks were arrested instead.
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Kenya has recorded its first confirmed Ebola case, a citizen who arrived in Nairobi from the Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday and has since died. Health minister Aden Duale said 28 contacts were identified as the virus escapes a Congo outbreak that has killed over 4,000.
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Thousands of intermediate health workers ended their hunger strike near Chennai's Rajarathinam Stadium after five leaders, invited into the Tamil Nadu Secretariat for talks, were detained. The site suffered a power cut before overnight detentions.
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Nurses on a hunger strike near Chennai's Rajarathinam Stadium for job security, equal pay and permanent employment were arrested overnight on Oct 5 after power was cut at the protest site. Stalin accused the TVK government of backstabbing them; EPS condemned the 'police brutality'.
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OPINION: When 41 people died in Karur, a probe team was formed within hours, before the court order even arrived. A month after the High Court ordered an SIT into the kidney racket, it has not begun. Justice is being rationed by who the victims are.
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AIADMK's Edappadi Palaniswami on Monday accused the state government of 'blatant double standards', lightning speed on the Karur stampede probe, but no start a month after the court ordered an SIT into Namakkal's kidney racket. Health Minister Ma Subramanian denies inaction.
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Governor Kathy Hochul has declared a statewide disaster emergency over measles — a US first since the 2025 surge. New York has 108 cases this year, 92 since July in under-immunized rural areas, as the US logs nearly 3,900 cases and Pennsylvania tops 1,000 with five deaths.
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A 28-year-old technician at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute died after reporting she had broken a test tube of live bacteria. Russia calls it pneumonia of unknown origin — but quarantined nearly 200 contacts and cordoned off hospital wards.
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Karnataka's ASHA workers are protesting for a long-promised honorarium hike and against unpaid digital work via the SAMASTA health app. Slow servers, no phones and withheld pay have turned digitisation into a burden, workers say — the latest flare-up after the January 2025 strike.
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Dengue cases in Tamil Nadu have crossed 20,000 this year, with three Anna University students dead in a week after persistent fever. Health officials insist the situation is 'stabilised', but Seeman blames the TVK government's negligence.
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Congo's Ebola outbreak has killed over 4,000 people, yet the strain killing them has no licensed vaccine — because pharmaceutical research follows markets, not mortality. When science serves capital, some lives are counted in headlines and others in footnotes.
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Government data shows 4,018 people have died in DR Congo's Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak — the deadliest in the country's history, with no licensed vaccine for this strain. WHO rates the national risk 'very high' as cases spread across seven provinces and thousands flee an Ebola-hit camp.
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Chennai recorded 1,775 confirmed dengue cases in September, forcing the corporation to fly drones over the Cooum and Buckingham Canal spraying larvicide. The TVK government's showcase technology cannot cover for stagnant drains, overflowing garbage and a system that wakes only when numbers explode.
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