Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday asked the state's Medical & Education Minister to quickly upgrade facilities at Srinagar's only children's hospital GB Pant. Omar said that the hospital's budget would be raised and more ventilators would be provided to the hospital. This after CNN-IBN reported how lack of medical care has led to the death of as many as 62 infants in 3 months. The...
01:31 PM, May 16, 2012
Srinagar: Over 62 newborns have died in the past three months at Srinagar's only paediatric hospital GB Pant. The hospital is facing an acute shortage of trained staff and medical equipment. The sole paediatric hospital in Srinagar has literally become a death trap. In the past six weeks alone, 30 infants have died due to doctors' negligence and inadequate health equipment to tackle the crisis. The doctors say they are...
08:30 AM, May 16, 2012
CHENNAI: Becoming a mother on Mothers Day is special for just about any woman. But for women who have been battling with fertility issues for years, Sunday was a particularly great day. We had three women who delivered children through Caesarean operations this mothers day, said Dr Jeyarani Kamaraj, infertility expert at Aakash Hospitals. And for all three women, motherhood has come after a long medical struggle.Rekha Sundaresan, who just...
08:23 AM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: An FIR has been filed against seven employees, including two doctors of a government hospital in Amroha where a CNN-IBN-Cobrapost expose caught staff and a man selling his child in the act. The action comes after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav took note of the investigation and instructed the district administration to probe the matter. A CNN-IBN Cobrapost expose on babies for sale shows how a government...
07:54 AM, Apr 16, 2012
Baby Afreen, the three-month-old baby, beaten and abused by her father continues to be critical and on life support. ...
11:37 PM, Apr 10, 2012
Bangalore: A dangerous ritual was conducted in Bagalkot in Karnataka where scores of babies were tossed by a temple priest from atop a chariot and caught by the waiting crowds. The ritual is held by people below at the annual festival of a temple in Bagalkot. After the ceremonies are over inside the temple, the priest takes out a 'shobha yatra' in the village. The act takes place once the...
01:36 PM, Apr 04, 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
Malda: Four more children have died at the Malda Medical College and Hospital in the last 24 hours, taking the toll to 38 in the past one week. The infants were suffering from bronchitis and cold related diseases. One of the babies was admitted after being referred from another hospital in a very serious condition, but the baby didn't survive for more than one hour. However, hospital authorities say that ...
11:46 AM, Jan 24, 2012
Malda: Four more children have died at the Malda Medical College and Hospital in the last 24 hours, taking the toll to 38 in the past one week. The infants were suffering from bronchitis and cold related diseases. One of the babies was admitted after being referred from another hospital in a very serious condition, but the baby didn't survive for more than one hour. However, hospital authorities say that...
11:46 AM, Jan 24, 2012
New Delhi: Taking the crib death toll to 26 in Malda, two more babies died on Sunday at the Malda Medical College. "Two more babies have died last night. Both were suffering from pneumonia," Officials said. Seven babies had died on January 18 while three had passed away on January 19 in the same hospital attached to the Malda Medical College. Earlier officials had said that the babies were brought...
10:30 AM, Jan 22, 2012
Kolkata: Twenty infants have died at the Malada Medical College over the last 72 hours - 3 in the last 24 hours alone. The hospital authorities say the babies were all malnourished, underweight and brought at the last stage. The authorities also maintain that the parents were not aware. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had blasted the media for spreading misinformation on Thursday and urged her party workers not...
12:26 PM, Jan 20, 2012
London: The sound of babies crying is uniquely able to get adults to react at speed, British scientists said on Tuesday. A study by Oxford University researchers using the classic arcade game "whack-a-mole" found that adults' responses were swifter when they were listening to babies crying, compared to hearing sounds of adults in distress or twittering birds. "The improvements in speed and dexterity may reflect an evolved response that kicks...
06:39 PM, Jan 10, 2012
BANGALORE: Month:11. Date:11. Year:2011. Couples, who became parents on Friday, were jubilant as the birth of their child was considered auspicious by many astrologers. It might be true, for their children were catapulted into instant fame by extensive media coverage. The fallout of such cosmic alignment of numbers was that city-based obstetricians were busy and in their surgical theatres throughout Friday with Bangalore reporting nearly 100 deliveries. It was a...
09:01 AM, Nov 12, 2011
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