Cuttack: After running from one hospital to another, parents of an 11-year-old girl with burn injuries staged a dharna in front of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's residence in Cuttack. The incident took place on Friday when the parents of the child were unable to admit their daughter to a hospital.
The child was later admitted to the SCB Medical College and Hospital here with over 50 per cent burn injuries almost 14 hours after a fire broke out at their home in Pipili, officials said. Health Minister Damodar Rout on Saturday warned of stringent action against government doctors who refused treatment to the child.
Tarannum, daughter of SK Jabahar, was first taken to the local hospital, which referred her to Capital Hospital in Bhubaneswar. The Capital Hospital in turn, referred her to SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack.
When the family brought her to the Cuttack hospital, doctors referred the Class VI student to Sishu Bhawan saying she required paediatric care. Faced with this situation, the family thought of admitting her to a private hospital but the thought of high treatment expenses scared them, they said....
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10:50 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Holding preliminary hearings on a PIL alleging human rights violation by Odisha police who forced three girls and as many boys to kneel down at a police station, the High Court on Friday issued notices to the government asking it to file reply within four weeks. The Jajpur district police had made three girls and three boys kneel down in front of the police station in full public view in...
12:41 PM, Mar 02, 2013
An officer of Intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), Prashant Agarwal, has been missing after he came to Delhi for his wedding. Prashant, posted in Cuttack in Odisha, had taken leave for his marriage and come to Delhi. ...
01:04 PM, Feb 15, 2013
A tea-stall owner in Cuttack doubles up as a teacher to provide free education to slum children. Every morning, the tea-stall owner, Prakash Rao, serves free milk to a bunch of kids who gather near his stall. If it weren't for the 55-year-old's initiative, the young ones wouldn't have seen the inside of a classroom. ...
09:26 AM, Feb 15, 2013
In pursuit of 176 in a Group B match, the Pakistani women were bundled out for just 84 runs in 33.2 overs. ...
07:41 PM, Feb 01, 2013
Tournament organisers in India moved Pakistan's base and matches from Mumbai for security reasons. ...
10:27 PM, Jan 25, 2013
Bajrang Dal activists took out processions in the city and blocked roads. ...
07:10 PM, Jan 24, 2013
The ABVP's Odisha unit on Tuesday protested outside the Bhubaneswar airport over the participation of the Pakistani cricket team in the upcoming women's world cup tournament. The activists protested outside the airport where BCCI members arrived earlier on Tuesday morning. They are to assess preparations for the matches. ...
02:01 PM, Jan 22, 2013
Pakistan will play all their matches in Cuttack, even if they make the knock-out stage; Mumbai will host the remaining matches. ...
03:39 PM, Jan 18, 2013
Cuttack: The Justice PK Mohanty Commission probing the Pipli rape case has asked the Odisha government to submit its reply by the next hearing scheduled on September 7, explaining cause of delay in cremation of the victim. The state government is yet to file its counter on the controversial case after Cuttack-Bhubaneswar Police Commissioner Sunil Kumar Ray had earlier filed his replies in a sealed cover. Meanwhile, the Commission on...
11:02 AM, Aug 19, 2012
Cuttack: Absolute, ravaging hunger has driven slum dwellers in Odisha to dig up wasted food grain by the Food Corporation of India (FCI) and eat it for their survival. The 1,206 bags of PDS rice belonging to the FCI were supposed to feed empty stomachs. Instead, they lay rotting in Cuttack's railway goods shed for the last nine months, stuck in a red-tape tussle between the railways and the FCI...
06:28 AM, Aug 12, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Curtains were drawn on the four-and-a-half-month-old alleged baby swapping drama at a Cuttack hospital on Saturday when one of the two warring women accepted the unclaimed girl child following direction of the Orissa High Court. "I am extremely delighted to take back my child. Now I have no doubt that this baby is ours," Rashmita Mallick, the mother of the baby Atmaja told reporters after formally accepting the child....
06:51 PM, Aug 11, 2012
Cuttack: A Defense Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) scientist escaped a kidnap bid from the premises of a family court when he came to attend counselling for his divorce suit on Wednesday. Lawyers and onlookers came to the rescue of the Hyderabad-based Odia scientist Sadananda Behera when he was dragged into a vehicle and beaten up by its occupants, including his estranged wife. The scientist said it was a kidnap...
09:49 PM, Jul 18, 2012
Cuttack: In a shocking incident in Odisha, a retired judge, his wife and son were arrested on Wednesday on charges of trying to kill their 23-year-old pregnant domestic help. When the police rescued Mini Pradhan at the Mahanad river barrage in Cuttack, she had a shocking tale to tell before she was whisked off to the ICU with multiple injuries. Mini alleged that she was thrown off the barrage by...
07:39 AM, May 11, 2012
Cuttack: A retired judicial magistrate and three others, including his wife and son were arrested on Wednesday for torturing his pregnant daughter-in-law and throwing her into a river with her hands and legs tied. The four - the retired judge, his wife, son and another person were arrested following a statement of the woman, who is fighting for her life in the SCB Medical College Hospital in Cuttack, Cuttack Deputy...
11:15 PM, May 09, 2012
Cuttack: The Orissa High Court on Tuesday ordered DNA tests to identify the parents of the baby girl, who is lying unclaimed in a hospital in Cuttack ever since she was born on March 30 after the woman who was said to be her mother claimed that her child had been swapped. The Division Bench of Chief Justice V Gopala Gowda and Justice SK Mishra adjudicating in a writ petition...
01:32 AM, Apr 25, 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: Odisha Excise Minister AU Singhdeo on Thursday resigned over hooch tragedy in Cuttack on moral grounds. The death toll has risen to 32 in number and as many as 67 people had fallen sick after consumption of a dubious medicinal concoction, which police claim was high in alcohol content and cheaply available at chemist stores. The pharmaceutical laboratory that supplied the medicines has been sealed. Meanwhile, several other...
03:17 PM, Feb 09, 2012
Cuttack: The death toll in the Cuttack hooch tragedy has gone up to 30 while 12 others continue to be in a critical state. As many as 67 people had fallen sick after consumption of a dubious medicinal concoction, which police claim was high in alcohol content and cheaply available at chemist stores. The pharmaceutical laboratory that supplied the medicines has been sealed. Meanwhile, several other victims are battling for...
08:37 AM, Feb 09, 2012
Cuttack: The toll in the hooch tragedy mounted to 30 on Wednesday with the death of 24 more ailing persons in different hospitals in Odisha. While 29 people died at the SCB Medical College Hospital in Cuttack, one succumbed at the Capital hospital in Bhubaneswar, official sources said. As many as 51 others are battling for survival in SCB Medical College and Hospital, Emergency Officer BN Moharana said. The victims...
03:21 AM, Feb 09, 2012
