Shivpuri: The government in Madhya Pradesh is finding itself helpless against the tragedy of hunger deaths among tribal children. Hundreds of tons of foodgrain was allowed to rot in the state thanks to government apathy. That grain could have saved many children's lives. CNN-IBN met one such child in Shivpuri district, 4-year-old Deepu. For months now, he has been too weak, and too ill to respond to his parents. His...
07:13 AM, Nov 14, 2011
New Delhi: Congress on Thursday downplayed deaths of a number of infants in Mamata Banerjee ruled West Bengal within weeks maintaining that public health system needs to be improved across the country and not only in the eastern state. "There is a need for us to prioritise the working of our public health system not just in West Bengal but on a macro level at a national scale," Congress spokesperson...
10:00 PM, Nov 10, 2011
Burdwan: Infant deaths in abnormal numbers and shocking instances of medical negligence continue to taint the public health infrastructure in West Bengal. The government primary health care centre at Aruar in Bengal's Burdwan district has a health staff who is not a qualified doctor but still writes out prescriptions for patients. The health care unit is ill-equipped and doesn't even have provisions to administer injections, saline or oxygen. Treatments for...
09:34 AM, Nov 03, 2011
Kolkata: A week after 27 infants died in two West Bengal government hospitals, there is political blame game underway, on pinning the responsibility of the deaths. Sudip Bandopadhyay, Minister of State, Health and Trinamool Congress MP, gave a clean chit to the West Bengal Health Department, and said that the government did its utmost best to save the children. However, West Bengal Governor M K Narayanan on Monday expressed concern...
02:06 PM, Oct 31, 2011
Burdwan: Five more babies have died at Burdwan Medical College and Hospital, days after 13 crib deaths were reported from the premier hospital in the West Bengal district but the authorities maintained there was nothing alarming in the death figures which was normal. Three babies died in the paediatric ward and two in the nursery where new borns are kept since Saturday, due to low weight, a senior hospital official...
07:29 PM, Oct 30, 2011
West Bengal Director of Medical Education, however, said the Govt is trying to improve basic health infrastructure. ...
07:57 PM, Oct 29, 2011
Sadananda Gowda, however, promised to bring to book those responsible for malnutrition deaths in Raichur. ...
07:12 PM, Oct 28, 2011
Kolkata: Four more infants died in BC Roy Hospital in Kolkata on Friday. All four infants were admitted with low birth weights. No complaint has been registered over the deaths so far. This came even as the West Bengal tried to play down the infant deaths in Kolkata saying the children were brought in a critical condition. 17 infants have died in the last 70 hours at the BC Roy...
01:33 PM, Oct 28, 2011
New Delhi: The West Bengal government is trying to play down the infant deaths in Kolkata saying the children were brought in a critical condition. 13 infants died in 48 hours at the BC Roy Hospital for children in Kolkata. Despite Mamata Banerjee's promises in June, the hospital is still begging for support. However, speaking to CNN-IBN, West Bengal Director of Medical Education Sushanto Bandopadhyay said that there has not...
07:25 AM, Oct 28, 2011
West Bengal Director of Medical Education Sushanto Bandopadhyay said the infant mortality rate has come down. ...
10:37 PM, Oct 27, 2011
New Delhi: Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Thursday gave a clean chit to the BC Roy Children's Hospital in Kolkata where the crib death toll has risen to 13 in three days, saying there is nothing wrong with the health care institution. The Minister, however, said the Centre has sought a report on the death of children at the referral hospital, the largest in West Bengal. "We took...
09:48 PM, Oct 27, 2011
Kolkata: Twelve infant deaths in 48 hours. The thirteenth succumbed on Thursday morning at the state-run BC Roy Pediatric Hospital in Kolkata. Following the hue and cry over 18 crib deaths in quick succession in June this year, the hospital it seems is yet to take corrective action. The hospital says that the facility is always over burdened with patients in a critical state being referred from both government and...
08:38 PM, Oct 27, 2011
Kurnool: The Andhra Pradesh government gave a clean chit to the Kurnool government hospital where 10 infants died in less than two days. But now the government has done a U-turn and admitted that the hospital is ill equipped and has rushed in new incubators and allocated more funds to revamp it. But the question is if this is enough. Ten infant deaths in less than 48 hours at the...
07:07 AM, Sep 04, 2011
Kurnool: Ten infants have died since Thursday at a government hospital in Kurnool district in Andhra Pradesh. The district administration gave a shocking reaction claiming it wasn't human error but God's error. The Andhra Pradesh Health Minister said that two to three deaths are a common occurrence and the government probe report has given a clean chit to the hospital. The parents allege the babies died due to lack of...
11:04 AM, Sep 03, 2011
The families allege the hospital failed to repair dysfunctional ventilators inspite of repeated complaints. ...
09:28 AM, Sep 03, 2011
Kurnool: Ten infants have died in a span of 48 hours in a government hospital in Kurnool in Andhra Pradesh. The parents of the infants allege that the ventilators that their babies were put on, were not supplying enough oxygen. The parents also said that in spite of bringing this to the notice of the hospital authorities, nothing had been done. The hospital authorities have denied these allegations. The parents...
09:50 AM, Sep 02, 2011
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10:12 PM, Jun 30, 2011
CJ Narendra Kumar fights for justice against a Hospital in Jodhpur, where his wife was one of the women who died after child-birth. ...
10:15 PM, May 28, 2011
Jodhpur: In another case of gross medical negligence at a government hospital in Jodhpur, one more woman has died while delivering her baby. The woman, identified as 22-year-old Sarika and wife of Jaswant Singh, died after there was excessive bleeding following the birth of her child in a normal delivery. The family of the victim filed a case against the hospital following which the doctors went on a flash strike....
01:10 PM, May 25, 2011
Cairo: At least 846 Egyptians died in the nearly three-week-long popular uprising that toppled long-serving President Hosni Mubarak and electrified the region, a government fact-finding mission announced on Tuesday. In their report, the panel of judges described police forces shooting protesters in the head and chest with live ammunition and presented a death toll more than twice that of previous official estimates. "The fatal shots were due to firing bullets...
09:40 PM, Apr 19, 2011
