Hyderabad: Emergency services in government-run hospitals in Andhra Pradesh are likely to be hit with junior doctors on Friday deciding to intensify their strike. With the government ruling out talks with the striking junior doctors till they call off their protest, the medicos have decided to boycott emergency services from Friday evening. They said if the government failed to come forward for talks on their demands by 5 p.m., they...
03:51 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: As the crisis in the Maldives worsens and India gets ready for a military intervention if called upon, Maldivians in Kerala are a worried lot. Just as thousands of Indians call Male home, thousands of Maldivians, too, are settled in Kerala. Maldivians flock to Thiruvananthapuram in thousands every year for medical treatment and education. Mohammad Farhad, First Secretary, Consulate of the Maldives, Thiruvananthapuram, says, "Trivandrum is very close to...
07:42 AM, Feb 10, 2012
New Delhi: In West Bengal, two more deaths have taken place at the Malda Medical College. Over a 100 babies have died in the region this year itself. As always, doctors claimed that the infants were malnourished and critical when brought to the hospital. West Bengal has been witnessing an increasing number of infant deaths at government facilities. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has attributed the deaths to malnutrition...
03:07 PM, Feb 05, 2012
New Delhi: Two-year-old baby Falak, who has been battling for life at the AIIMS, has been put on ventilator support intermittently since Saturday night. Doctors at the AIIMS hospital are monitoring her brain fluid levels. Doctors have said that her vitals signs are stable as of now but she may undergo her fourth surgery if her condition worsens. A woman named Aarti was arrested last week for pushing the 15-year-old,...
11:31 AM, Feb 05, 2012
New Delhi: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences has been asked by the Delhi High Court to respond to a plea for scrapping this year's entrance examination for post graduate medical course, held last month, in the wake of reports of copying at some centres. Justice Hima Kohli asked AIIMS to file within a week the records pertaining to the examination at all 156 centres where entrance tests were...
08:16 AM, Feb 05, 2012
New Delhi: Two-year-old baby Falak's condition was very critical, but stable on Wednesday. Doctors attending to her said that it was getting difficult to control her infection. "We are giving anti biotics but dont think we can control the infection," Dr Deepak Agarwal said. He also said that the chances of Falak's survival were now less than 50 per cent. Falak's neurological condition remained the same and she was in...
12:52 PM, Feb 01, 2012
New Delhi: Two-year-old baby Falak continued to remain critical on Wednesday with meningitis and brain fluid infection. Doctors have now inserted a pipe into Falak's spinal cord to drain out the water from her brain. Though her vitals are still strong, she remains on a ventilator. Doctors have said that the next 48 hours will be critical for her. Doctors will decide on Wednesday on a new set of antibiotic...
10:20 AM, Feb 01, 2012
New Delhi: Two-year-old Baby Falak who was found battered and abandoned, continues to be critical and has been put on the ventilator again by the doctors at AIIMS. As doctors perform surgery after surgery on the two-year-old, there are still no concrete leads to who the child's biological parents are. The 2-year-old was on ventilator from Sunday night due to lung infection. With a CT scan showing fluids in her...
08:55 AM, Jan 31, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Monday claimed that it is close to cracking the case of a two-year-old battered baby admitted in AIIMS here as it questioned a woman who got the child from her biological mother. Investigators said they have identified a crucial link and a woman named Lakshmi is being questioned. The baby Falak was admitted to AIIMS with severe injuries and is battling for life after...
02:23 PM, Jan 30, 2012
Malda: It's being called West Bengal's shame. Over 100 infants have died in state-run hospitals in January alone in Malda district. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who also holds the health portfolio, had promised to act, but the tragedy continues. The Malda Medical College and Hospital has inadequate infrastructure, doctors are few, and even those who are there are busy with private practices. Malda Medical College and Hospital has...
01:09 PM, Jan 30, 2012
New Delhi: Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare on Sunday reached Delhi for further treatment in a super-speciality hospital as he was suffering from persisting cough and back-pain. 74-year-old Anna Hazare flew from Pune and reached the Delhi airport at around 1:30 am. He was taken to Medanta Hospital in adjoining Gurgaon. Hazare will undergo a 'detailed medical check-up' as he was suffering from persisting cough and back-pain, his close aides said....
03:04 PM, Jan 29, 2012
New Delhi: After Malda, infant deaths were reported from the West Bengal state-run Behrampore Hospital in Murshidabad district, where nine babies have died during the last 48 hours. Sources said they were suffering from Pneumonia. Malda Sadar Hospital had reported 110 deaths between January 1 and January 27. The hospital's vice-principal, MA Rashid, told reporters on Saturday that of the 110 deceased, 87 were below one-year-old. According to him, the...
08:31 AM, Jan 29, 2012
Pune: Social activist Anna Hazare would be shifted to a hospital in Gurgaon, near Delhi, on Sunday, his associates said on Saturday. Anna's aide Datta Awari said from his native village Ralegan Siddhi that Hazare would be leaving for Delhi on Sunday. "We are now planning an Ayurvedic treatment," he said, adding that Hazare would be admitted to Medanta hospital in Gurgaon. Manish Sisodiya, a member of Hazare's core team,...
02:08 PM, Jan 28, 2012
New Delhi: The police on Friday launched its investigations into the alleged role of the man involved in the baby brutality case. 2-year-old Falak was brought in a battered condition to AIIMS on January 18 by a 15-year-old girl who claimed to be her mother. However, further probe revealed that the girl had received the child from the man she was staying with. Rajkumar, a taxi-driver, who was having an...
06:15 PM, Jan 27, 2012
New Delhi: Five more infants died at Malda Sadar Hospital on Friday, taking the death toll in one week to 37. "37 infants have died since the last seven days. Three infants and two children have died in the last 24 hours," reports said. Most of the children have died after they were referred from rural hospitals in critical state, the hospital said. The babies, who were born underweight and...
10:55 AM, Jan 27, 2012
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