Browsing: Health Alerts

Every monsoon season brings a wave of seasonal infections, accompanied by complaints of fever and body ache. Families rush to get platelet counts checked, and doctors worry about internal bleeding. Children are admitted to ICUs. For millions across India, dengue isn’t just a mosquito-borne infection. It’s a recurring yearly threat.

Imagine being in a road accident, losing blood rapidly, and needing an urgent transfusion. But there’s no time to check your blood group, and the right donor blood isn’t always available. That delay could prove to be fatal.

Over the past two years, reports of young, seemingly healthy people collapsing and dying without warning have been deeply unsettling. These stories have understandably created fear and confusion, especially when public figures raise concerns linking such deaths to the COVID-19 vaccines.

In the last 40 days, multiple young and middle-aged individuals in Hassan district, Karnataka collapsed suddenly and died, some on the spot, some on the way to the hospital. And just days ago, the shocking sudden death of actress Shefali Jariwala reportedly due to cardiac arrest added fuel to growing fears across India. How can people in their prime simply drop dead with no warning?