The Delhi Police arrested two people in connection with the horrific deaths of patients caused due to negligence at the Sushruta Trauma Centre, a government hospital, in the capital on Tuesday evening. The two have been identified as Amit Katoch and Mohan Sharma. While Katoch is the technician who was on duty in the ICU ward on the fateful night, Sharma works as a supervisor at the hospital. ...
10:17 PM, Dec 05, 2012
Three more babies have died in Malda Medical College in West Bengal in the past 24 hours taking the toll to 27 dead since last Saturday. The state government has rushed the Chairman of Task Force of Infant Mortality to Malda. The hospital defence is that the three babies were suffering from birth asphyxia and hypothermia and were already in a critical condition. ...
02:46 PM, Nov 28, 2012
Three more infants have died in the past 24 hours in the Malda Medical college in West Bengal. This has taken the death toll to 22 since Saturday. ...
10:58 AM, Nov 28, 2012
52 children dead in just one month, 28 in ten days. The horror continues at Malda Medical College. ...
09:35 PM, Nov 27, 2012
Over a 100 infant deaths were reported in state-run hospitals in West Bengal in January this year. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee who also holds the health portfolio had promised to act, but little has changed on the ground 11 months on. ...
01:36 PM, Nov 27, 2012
Six more infant deaths have been reported from the Medical College Hospital in Malda in West Bengal in the past 24 hours. This takes the toll to 19 deaths since Saturday. Hospital authorities maintain that the infants were brought in a critical condition from the adjoining North and South Dinajpur districts and all of them were suffering from malnutrition. ...
08:16 AM, Nov 27, 2012
Chittorgarh: Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh had drawn attention to crumbling health infrastructure in the states, saying even Kenya has a lower infant mortality rate than India. CNN-IBN travelled to Rajasthan's Chittorgarh to find out the situation there. Prem and Madan Dangi were filled with joy upon the birth of their child, but now all they are left with is a feeling of emptiness. They lost their baby hours after...
10:37 AM, Nov 20, 2012
New York: A popular energy drink, produced by a company founded by an Indian-American billionaire, has come under the scanner in the US after reports of 13 deaths possibly linked to the energy shots. However, Lucknow-born CEO of '5-Hour Energy', Manoj Bhargava dismissed the allegations against his firm as "false" and "ridiculous". The popular energy drink is being investigated by the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) after 13 deaths...
10:17 AM, Nov 16, 2012
Hooghly: Seven persons have died after drinking illicit liquor at Payradanga village in this district, police said on Tuesday. About 20 villagers drank liquor on Sunday night and fell sick, following which they were brought to Panduah rural hospital. After their condition deteriorated, they were shifted to the Imambara Sadar Hospital at Chinsurah. While one person died on way to Chinsurah, two others died during treatment there, officials said. As...
09:27 PM, Nov 13, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has refused to direct a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe against spiritual leader Asaram Bapu. This pertains to the death case of two boys, Dipesh and Abhishek Vaghela, who were found dead in his Sabarmati ashram in the year 2008. The Gujarat CID had filed a chargesheet of culpable homicide against seven sadhaks of Asaram Bapu. But that had been struck down by the...
11:39 AM, Nov 09, 2012
New Delhi: Village heads in Jammu and Kashmir have put the state government on a 24-hour-deadline to provide them with special security after Hizbul Mujahideen leader Syed Salah-ud-Din issued a fresh threat against them on Friday. The dreaded militant allegedly said that village heads will be attacked if they didn't quit from their posts. The sarpanchs say they don't want to resign but cannot afford to take Salah-ud-Din's threat lightly...
03:54 PM, Nov 03, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi government's hospital for children - Kalawati Saran Children's Hospital - is turning into a horror zone with almost six children dying every day. An RTI document has revealed that over 2000 out of the 24,000 kids admitted every year die at the hospital. This is due to inadequate facilities and unhygienic conditions. Over four kids are allotted the same bed due to a shortage of beds. Nine...
10:13 AM, Oct 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday asked the central government to provide details of clinical trials being conducted throughout the country, their side effects and deaths, if any. The apex court bench of Justice R.M. Lodha and Justice Anil R. Dave, while asking the central government to furnish the details, also issued notice to all state governments, seeking to know whether they were being kept in the loop regarding...
01:12 PM, Oct 08, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has hauled up the Centre on clinical drug trials in the country. Issuing notices to all state governments on Monday, the apex court asked them if they were being kept in the loop by the government on the clinical trials. The court further sought details from the Centre on four aspects of the trials. These included: The number of clinical trials that have taken place...
12:21 PM, Oct 08, 2012
Kolkata: As India struggles with the tag of the world's second highest rate of suicides, a new study reveals that West Bengal is the worst affected. The question is as to what really could be the reasons behind this surge in suicide cases. 20-year old college students Mita and Priti consumed poison in Birbhum in Bengal on Wednesday. Theirs is the latest in the growing number of suicides. In India,...
08:46 AM, Oct 05, 2012
The UPA government clears second wave of reforms. Encephalitis deaths continue to rise in Gorakhpur. ...
11:55 PM, Oct 04, 2012
Srinagar: Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi is set to begin his two-day visit of Kashmir on Thursday. This comes in the light of the murder of sarpanchs and protests by other village chiefs. However, there is no meeting scheduled with Chief Minister Omar Abdullah planned as yet. Rahul will also be laying the foundation stone of a 6.5 km tunnel near Sonmarg on Thursday. The Z-Morh Tunnel is aimed at...
09:47 AM, Oct 04, 2012
New Delhi: Around seven people died and 11 others were injured when the bus they were travelling in turned turtle in Burdwan district of West Bengal. The incident happened on the Durgapur expressway on Sunday morning. The victims were mostly from Bihar's Hajipur area and had gone to visit the Kalighat temple in Kolkata. They were on their way back when the accident took place. The injured were shifted to...
10:46 AM, Sep 30, 2012
New Delhi: One person was killed and 13 others injured when a stampede broke out at a temple in Kanpur on Monday. The crowd of devotees had gathered to celebrate the Budhwa Mangal festival at the Hanuman temple of Panki, about 7 km from Kanpur, when the stampede happened. One eyewitness at the site complained of poor crowd control arrangements. The injured are presently being treated at hospital. The doors...
07:13 AM, Sep 25, 2012
Shimla: Eight people have died due to scrub typhus at a hospital in Shimla, the disease caused by infected mites. Other than the 8 dead, 117 tested positive for the disease in Himachal Pradesh. The patients were referred to Indira Gandhi Medical College Hospital (IGMC)her from Solan and Shimla, doctors said. More cases of scrub typhus, a zonotic disease which can be transmitted from animals to humans, were pouring in...
05:21 PM, Sep 23, 2012
