New Delhi: Three persons suffered injuries this morning when a portion of the wall near AIIMS metro station's parking lot collapsed after heavy rains. The incident took place at around 9:30 am. Some vehicles parked in the lot were damaged. Three persons, including a parking attendant, were injured and rushed to hospital for treatment. The injured have been identified as Raeem, Sauran and Ehraaj, all in their early twenties. A...
08:39 PM, Aug 21, 2012
Lucknow: Clearing way for establishment of the first AIIMS hospital in Uttar Pradesh, the state government on Sunday gave its consent to provide land in Rae Bareli city, instead of a town on the outskirts where the hospital was planned earlier. Earlier, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences was planned in Lalganj block of the district, however, the Centre was of the opinion that it should be set up...
03:35 AM, Aug 13, 2012
New Delhi: With his dreams of becoming a doctor and leading a lavish life shattered by financial constraints, this Delhi resident posed as a "doctor" at two leading government hospitals in New Delhi and stole 21 cell phones of doctors until he was arrested. Amandeep Singh, 23, a resident of Tagore Garden in west Delhi was arrested on Friday along with his associate Jitender, 22, a resident of Shahdara in...
04:46 PM, Aug 12, 2012
New Delhi: In what may prove to be more trouble for Nitish Katara's killers, CNN-IBN has accessed the Army Medical Board report on their medical records that questions their prolonged stays in hospitals using flimsy medical grounds and staying out of jail thus. In November 2011, CNN-IBN had reported how Vikas and Vishal Yadav, convicted for the murder of Nitish Katara, were regularly out of jail on flimsy medical grounds....
06:15 PM, May 28, 2012
New Delhi: A recent study conducted by doctors at AIIMS and Maulana Azad Medical College has shown a startling increase in the number of celiac cases in the country. The study reveals that undiagnosed celiac or allergy to wheat may be a major cause of malnutrition in the country. Three-year-old Gudiya has body of a one year old, all because of a condition that is increasingly prevalent across India. Gudiya's...
08:48 AM, May 28, 2012
Mumbai: A Parliamentary committee has uncovered a nexus between doctors, government bodies and pharmacy companies to approve new drugs without the mandatory clinical trials. The doctors from top hospitals wrote to the country's Drug Controller General, to allow new drugs to be marketed, without clinical trials - a shocking lapse, highlighted in this Parliamentary standing committee report. Drug expert CM Gulati said, "All of them are compromised. We've got the...
06:16 AM, May 14, 2012
Speaking to CNN-IBN's Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, Shena Aggarwal said there is no success formula to crack UPSC Civil Services exams. ...
10:46 PM, May 04, 2012
New Delhi: Country's premier institute All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), is facing staff crunch as only 400 doctors are functioning in the hospital against the sanctioned strength of 625 doctors. The hospital caters to 8,000 patients on a daily basis. Adding to the woes of the premier hospital, there have been instances where doctors have quit in the past couple of years for better pay and work opportunities...
03:20 PM, Apr 26, 2012
New Delhi: Two doctors, arrested by the CBI for allegedly manipulating admission process for post-graduate courses at All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), were on Wednesday granted bail by a Delhi court. Additional Sessions Judge Justice R Kiran Nath granted bail to doctors Noopur Bajpai and Sonal on a personal bond of Rs 20,000 each with one surety of the same amount. "Both the accused are granted bail," the judge...
07:59 PM, Mar 28, 2012
New Delhi: In a major setback for Nitish Katara killers Vikas and Vishal Yadav a medical board at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) says that the duo is not suffering from any medical condition and don't require hospitalisation. A board of 10 doctors examined Vikas and Vishal between February 9 and 13, 2012 as per the directions of the Delhi High Court and found that both of...
06:17 PM, Mar 27, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday ordered a medical board to be formed to investigate why Vikas Yadav and Vishal Yadav needed to make several visits to AIIMS Hospital and Batra Hospital. The duo are murder convicts in the Nitish Katara case. CNN-IBN had reported that both the accused had made 151 medical outings in four years. The Delhi High Court on February 1 asked Tihar Jail authorities...
06:07 PM, Mar 23, 2012
Cuttack: The condition of the Pipili rape victim, who is on life support system for the past 24 hours, is showing little improvement after developing further complications, doctors attending on her said on Tuesday. A team of senior doctors of SCB medical college and hospital in Cuttack are attending on the 19-year-old Dalit girl, under treatment in "semi-comatose" state since January 11. She developed breathing problems on Monday evening. Doctors...
10:33 PM, Mar 20, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Friday added charges of culpable homicide in the case of two-year-old baby Falak following her death in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Trauma Centre. The abandoned child, who was admitted to the AIIMS on January 18 with severe head injuries, broken arms, bite marks all over her body and cheeks branded with hot iron, breathed her last on Thursday. A senior...
08:06 PM, Mar 16, 2012
New Delhi: The body of two-year-old Falak, whose struggle for survival was closely followed by countless well-wishers, was on Friday handed over to her mother by AIIMS doctors who had attended on the baby for 58 days. Baby Falak, who was recuperating at the AIIMS Trauma Centre for over a month following fatal injuries, passed away on Thursday night after suffering a fatal cardiac arrest. Deepak Agrawal, Assistant Professor of...
07:15 PM, Mar 16, 2012
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11:55 PM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: Baby Falak, the two-year-old child who was abused and battered, died after suffering a cardiac arrest in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Trauma Centre in New Delhi on Thursday. "The baby died of cardiac arrest. She suffered cardiac arrest at 9 pm and was declared dead at 9.40 pm," said Deepak Agrawal, assistant professor neurosurgery at AIIMS. The abandoned child, who was admitted to the...
10:29 PM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: The city police has been asked by a Delhi court to verify if Harish Sharma, a close aide of slain BJP leader Pramod Mahajan and co-accused in the drug abuse-cum-peddling case involving Rahul Mahajan, has died. Additional Sessions Judge Lal Singh issued notice to the police seeking the reply of the investigating officer (IO) of the case to Sharma's counsel plea that his client died on February 10...
11:39 AM, Mar 11, 2012
New Delhi: The crime branch of Odisha Police probing the sensational Pipili Dalit rape case has filed a chargesheet on Saturday. The chargesheet says the arrested prime accused attempted to murder the victim but there is no evidence of rape. The crime branch earlier submitted a medical examination report prepared by experts from AIIMS to the Orissa High Court. Submitting the report in a sealed cover, the government advocate prayed...
06:47 PM, Mar 10, 2012
New Delhi: Agitating MBBS students at AIIMS in New Delhi on Thursday suspended their indefinite relay hunger strike, called in the wake of the alleged suicide by a first-year student, after the premier medical hospital's authorities promised to look into some of their demands. "We have decided to suspend our strike as of now. The decision has been taken after the hospital administration gave us a written assurance that they...
08:46 AM, Mar 08, 2012
New Delhi: Agitated MBBS students at All India Institute of Medical Sciences on Wednesday began an indefinite relay hunger strike to demand removal of its director in the wake of the alleged suicide by a first-year student. "We have called for a hunger strike too as the administration has not met all our demands yet," a protesting student said. Anil Meena (22), who belonged to Baran district in Rajasthan, was...
08:36 PM, Mar 07, 2012
