Apollo Hospitals doctors release book on COVID-19
The Hindu
A group of doctors from Apollo Hospitals have come together to release a textbook on COVID-19 — Comprehensive textbook of COVID-19. Addressing the media on Thursday, M.S. Kanwar, senior consultant at
A group of doctors from Apollo Hospitals have come together to release a textbook on COVID-19 — Comprehensive textbook of COVID-19. Addressing the media on Thursday, M.S. Kanwar, senior consultant at the Institute of Critical Care, Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, who put together the book with other doctors, said that around 80 doctors from across the country and from various specialities contributed to the book. He said it covered all aspects, including history, epidemiology, socio-economic aspects of the pandemic. Acknowledging that knowledge about COVID-19 was continuously and rapidly evolving, he said that the book tried to accommodate the latest available developments. “We will be continuously updating the soft copy,” he said. Highlighting that the COVID-19 pandemic was an unprecedented health crisis of enormous proportions unlikely to be faced in a lifetime, Prathap C. Reddy, chairman, Apollo Hospitals, said that the sacrifice, commitment and selfless service shown by medical professionals and people from various professions to overcome it was extraordinary.“Spider wasp,” says ecologist and nature educator Vena Kapoor, narrating the fascinating but macabre tale of the spider wasp and its victims. While adult spider wasps mostly feed on flower nectar, making them excellent pollinators, they are also what are known as “parasitoids.” Unlike parasites, they kill their host. In the case of spider wasps, females hunt down spiders, inject them with venom and lay eggs on them. Once they hatch, the larvae eat these spiders alive, inevitably killing them, she tells the huddle of women cloistered around this tree.