New Delhi: A prominent hospital chain on Monday offered to provide free treatment to Sarabjit Singh, who is battling for his life in a Lahore hospital, in case India manages to bring him back to the country. Col Harinder Singh Chahal, Regional Director (North), Fortis Healthcare, told PTI that the Mohali based multi-speciality unit of Fortis Group is ready to treat Sarabjit free of cost if the Indian government would bring him back for treatment.
"It would be logistically easy to shift the patient to Mohali hospital as its location is relatively closer to other major hospitals in the country," Chahal said.
Dr Amit Mandal, Head of the Critical Care unit, said the hospital is fully equipped to comprehensively treat critical cases like the one in Sarabjit's. Forty nine-year-old Sarabjit is in comma and undergoing treatment at the Jinnah hospital in Lahore after he sustained several injuries, including a skull fracture, when prisoners attacked him in Kot Lakhpat Jail on Friday.
Meanwhile, Pakistan on Monday said the "best possible care" is being given to Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh - comatose in a Lahore hospital after a brutal assault - and that there are no plans to move him....
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08:28 PM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: Lok Janashakati Party leader Ram Vilas Paswan has been admitted to a private hospital in the capital after he complained of chest congestion. Doctors attending Paswan at Fortis Hospital said that the Rajya Sabha MP was "absolutely fine" and he would be discharged in a day or two. The 67-year-old leader, who concluded his three-month long Bihar Bachao Yatra on April 14, had "a chest infection after which...
06:22 PM, Apr 28, 2013
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10:13 AM, Feb 24, 2013
Mumbai is one of the few cities to see a surge in organ donations. Not only do they save lives but they are also generating a lot of funds. Experts say the healthcare sector could get richer by Rs 5,000 crore. ...
09:32 AM, Jan 17, 2013
With 1,30,000 new cases of cervical cancer diagnosed every year in the country, India accounts for nearly a third of all new cases in the world. What's worse, in another decade, more than 2.3 lakh new cases of this preventable cancer might be diagnosed annually. Yet, doctors in this campaign found that awareness for cervical cancer is extremely low. 95 per cent of women who turned up for screening had...
05:49 PM, Dec 27, 2012
New Delhi: Taking a tough stand against medical negligence, the apex consumer court has slapped a Rs 50,000 penalty on the Delhi-based Fortis Escorts Heart Institute for an infected blood transfusion that left a patient afflicted with Hepatitis B within weeks of undergoing a bypass surgery in 1995. "There is clear nexus between the blood transfusion on Harbans Kaur Chawla during the course of her cardiac surgery at the institute...
04:25 PM, Sep 27, 2012
New Delhi: "Do you know the pain of losing your best friend? I pray that god gives every man a girl like Seema." - Pankaj Rai Retired Army officer Major Pankaj Rai had lost his wife Seema to what he called a botched kidney transplantation operation at a well known hospital in Bangalore. He had accused the doctors attending to her of medical malpractice on Aamir Khan's popular show Satyamev...
07:53 PM, Jun 08, 2012
It was early 2010, and Fortis Healthcare's board"chaired by the billionaire Singh brothers, Malvinder and Shivinder"was in session. One of the directors couldn't make it to Delhi, and instead called in. At one point, Shivinder made a point and the director on the call interrupted to clarify, "Who is it, Malvinder [the elder brother] or Shivinder?" The younger brother immediately quipped: "It doesn't matter, it's the same." Although a fun...
11:01 AM, Mar 26, 2012
New Delhi: Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap's forthcoming venture 'Michael' has entered into a strategic distribution relationship with international distributor Fortissimo Films. The distribution company has earlier tied up with other independent filmmakers from all over the world including,= Emmy winner Martin Scorsese, stylized filmmaker John Woo and the noted filmmaker of Hong kong Wong Kar-wai. The announcement was made in a recently concluded Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) where 'Michael' had...
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11:28 AM, Feb 25, 2011
Mumbai: Here’s a shocker on the World Heart Day -- doctors in India say almost half their cardiac patients today are below 40! More than 2 million Indians died of cardiac related problems last year. And 23-year-old Pramod never saw any warning signs. Pramod, who had a heart attack at the age of 23, said: “It was my 23rd birthday and I was returning home from my party. Suddenly, I...
12:20 PM, Sep 24, 2010
Vishal Bali wants private healthcare to be given due credit. ...
10:44 AM, Feb 24, 2010
Malvinder Mohan Singh says extend tax incentives from 5 years to 10 years. ...
01:29 PM, Feb 19, 2010
The Capital has seen 300 cases of dengue in just the past eight days. ...
12:59 AM, Nov 20, 2009
He took charge as Assam governor in July last year. ...
11:06 PM, Jun 25, 2009
Thirty-five-year old Lorna Lrungu had four kidneys. ...
04:09 PM, Jan 21, 2009
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09:59 AM, May 16, 2008
A Delhi hospital has therapy for infants: soft music. Docs say music stimulates growth. ...
06:01 PM, Jun 21, 2007
Fortis is going to team up with DLF to form a 74:26 joint venture to set up state-of-the-art hospitals across the country. ...
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