The Delhi High Court on Thursday asked the state government and health department to issue a directive to hospitals to attend to all trauma patients. This also applies to the private hospitals in the city too. ...
01:20 PM, Jan 31, 2013
New Delhi: 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
New Delhi: Four critically ill patients died in a city hospital on Tuesday allegedly due to malfunctioning of an oxygen supply machine, prompting the Delhi government to order a probe into the incident. The incident happened at the Sushrut Trauma Centre in North Delhi on Tuesday morning following which relatives of the victims staged a protest at the state government-run hospital. The deceased have been identified as Rajkumari, 35, Javed,...
08:49 PM, Dec 04, 2012
New Delhi: A 28-year-old married woman was arrested for allegedly attempting to abduct a new-born baby boy from a hospital in the national capital in the guise of a doctor. Deepti Bahari, a resident of Ghaziabad, had gone to the Hindu Rao Hospital on November 29 and kept inquring from patients on whether they had given birth to a baby boy or girl. Dangling a stethescope round her neck and...
09:51 PM, Dec 03, 2012
New Delhi: Dengue is back in Delhi with 98 cases identified ever since the outbreak. The experts have blamed it on the lack of fumigation and sources said that municipal workers were unwilling to work because they had not got their salaries. The fatal fever is on the rise in the national capital, ringing alarm bells in the secretariat. According to a study by the Delhi government, as many as...
07:48 PM, Oct 03, 2012
New Delhi: Two-year-old Falak, who has been fighting for life at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), was taken off ventilator on Friday morning. Doctors at AIIMS said that Falak was stable but still critical. "Her lungs have improved, kidney and liver are okay. Falak is tolerating feed. Hope that path to recovery continues," said Dr MC Mishra of AIIMS. Dr Mishra, however, said that the infection remained...
03:37 PM, Feb 03, 2012
New Delhi: Two-year-old Falak, who has been fighting for life at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), was taken off ventilator on Friday morning. Doctors at AIIMS said that Falak was stable but still critical. Concerns remained on the spread of infection in her brain fluids. Doctors have claimed this could be the biggest factor in saving her life. Meanwhile, on the investigation front, a fourth person, a...
09:21 AM, Feb 03, 2012
New Delhi: As baby Falak continues to battle for her life, the father of the teenager who brought Falak to AIIMS now wants her custody. But the Delhi Women's Commission has stepped in saying they will oppose his demand. Baby Falak is out of ventilator for more than 72 hours now and there is no sign of any post surgery complication yet. Doctors still put her chances of survival to...
07:47 AM, 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: Learning lessons from the devastating fire in a Kolkata hospital, Delhi government on Friday decided to upgrade fire safety measures in 37 hospitals run by it most of which do not have the mandatory NOC from the fire department. A top official of the Health Department said most of the government run hospitals in the city do not have the no objection certificate from the fire department. "It...
08:52 PM, Dec 09, 2011
New Delhi: Delhi hospitals have come a long way since the blasts that rocked Sarojini Nagar in 2005. At that time, Safdarjung Hospital had struggled to cope with the influx of patients. But on Saturday, the Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) and other hospitals rose to deal with the crisis. The scene at RML Hospital, right after the blasts was very much calm, controlled and coordinated. From human chains for victims,...
12:28 PM, Sep 14, 2008
