New Delhi: The Junior Doctors' Association will be boycotting emergency services in 10 government medical colleges and hospitals across Andhra Pradesh on Saturday. This includes big government hospitals like Gandhi and Osmania in Hyderabad. The junior doctors have been on a protest for over 40 days now, demanding a hike in stipend and reduction in the number of years of compulsory rural service. Despite several rounds of talks, the government...
06:55 AM, Feb 11, 2012
Hyderabad: Emergency services in government-run hospitals in Andhra Pradesh are likely to be hit with junior doctors on Friday deciding to intensify their strike. With the government ruling out talks with the striking junior doctors till they call off their protest, the medicos have decided to boycott emergency services from Friday evening. They said if the government failed to come forward for talks on their demands by 5 p.m., they...
03:51 PM, Feb 10, 2012
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06:32 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Patna: It's a controversy Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar could have done without; his Health Minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey threatened to chop off the hands of doctors planning to go on a strike. However, severe criticism forced him to retract that statement. "Who dares to stop hospitals from running? I will not allow that, I can take extreme steps, even chop off your hands if you try to obstruct public...
03:42 PM, Jan 29, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Friday arrested two doctors in connection with their alleged role in the recent leaking of the post graduate medical entrance papers of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). Shahi Balender Bakshi and Vimal Dangi, who appeared in the entrance exam, were arrested by the police. The two doctors are believed to be part of a well-organised racket involved in leaking question papers of...
03:23 PM, Jan 13, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Dental students have begun an indefinite hunger strike in front of the Government Dental College here. This is in protest against the indifference of the State Government to their demands regarding equalising their stipends with that of medical students. "During the last governments term, the stipend of the medical students was hiked to Rs 23,000, Rs 24,000 and Rs 25,000 for the first, second and third years. We should...
09:24 AM, Jan 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police has arrested five people for allegedly helping people pass the prestigious MD entrance examination conducted by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. Those arrested include one doctor and four others and the police said more arrests are likely. The police claimed that the gang was very well organised. Two members of the gang used to go to the examination centre, scan the paper with...
11:59 AM, Jan 09, 2012
CHENNAI: As news of government doctors going on strike did the rounds, there was a visible decrease in the number of patients in Chennais government-run hospitals on Wednesday. It had been announced that all doctors, residents and medical students would stir against the murder of Dr T Sethulakshmi in Tuticorin. Starting with the usually crowded Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital to the smaller Government Peripheral Hospitals in Perambur and Anna...
07:58 AM, Jan 05, 2012
Pune: The health of Anna Hazare, who has been admitted to a private hospital in Pune after suffering from viral infection, is improving. However, doctors attending him said on Sunday that Hazare will need to remain in hospital for a week. The doctors have also advised him not to go on fast for at least one month. "I am not as unwell as people may think. My condition has improved....
07:01 PM, Jan 01, 2012
Pune: The health of Anna Hazare, who has been admitted to a private hospital here after suffering from viral infection, is improving but he will need to remain in hospital for a week and not go on fast for at least one month, doctors attending on him said on Sunday. "He is showing signs of improvement, he is being treated for chest infection and will require to remain in the...
05:20 PM, Jan 01, 2012
Jaipur: Government hospital doctors in Rajasthan called off their strike on Saturday night after Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot lifted the Rajasthan Essential Services Maintenance Act (RESMA) and released jailed doctors. Seventy five patients died during the 11-day stir. The doctors went on strike on December 21 demanding better pay and timely promotions. The protest led to a virtual collapse of the healthcare system in the state. Gehlot on Saturday night...
06:55 AM, Jan 01, 2012
Jaipur: Forty seven striking resident doctors on Thursday resumed duty in Jaipur taking the total number of medicos who have rejoined work to 94 even as the situation remained grim in other cities where the strike continued. The 47 protesting doctors resumed duties at SMS Government Hospital in Jaipur, Dr L C Sharma, Superintendent of SMS Hospital, said. Out of a total 360 resident doctors, 94 in all have resumed...
03:03 PM, Dec 29, 2011
Jaipur: Despite assurance by a delegation of resident doctors to call off their strike from on Wednesday, majority of them did not resume duty and continued their protest in support of agitating government medicos. Out of around 450 resident doctors, only 35 resumed duty in Jaipur and the situation remained almost same in other parts of the state, official sources said in Jaipur. A three-member delegation of resident doctors, who...
12:03 AM, Dec 29, 2011
New Delhi: Doctors on Wednesday strongly advised Anna Hazare to discontinue fast as they say it may lead to kidney failure. "His skin shows sign of dehydration. Fever is 100. Throat and chest clear. We advice him to discontinue fast as it may lead to kidney failure. Heart is normal," Doctor said. Amid growing concerns for his health, Anna Hazare continued his second day of his three-day fast in Mumbai...
12:39 PM, Dec 28, 2011
Anna Hazare on Wednesday vowed to continue his fast despite health concerns. ...
12:15 PM, Dec 28, 2011
Jaipur: Resident doctors in Rajasthan who were on strike for the past seven days in support of in-service government doctors, will resume duty on Wednesday. Resident Doctors' Association representatives on Tuesday night met State Health Minister Duru Miya at his residence and informed him that they will return to work on Wednesday morning. "The association has given a letter to the minister assuring to call off their strike unconditionally," an...
06:48 AM, Dec 28, 2011
Jaipur: Patients continued to have a harrowing time in Rajasthan where doctors' indefinite strike for promotions and better pay entered seventh day on Tuesday with no significant sign of thaw between the agitating medicos and the Ashok Gehlot government. About 60 people have died in the state since the beginning of the strike allegedly due to non-availability of medical help. Private doctors and medical college teachers in Jaipur also struck...
04:29 AM, Dec 28, 2011
Jaipur: As the Rajasthan doctors' stir entered the sixth day on Monday, a doctor-turned IPS officer has come to the rescue of needy patients providing them medical help in Jhalawar district. SP Ravi, a 2007 batch IPS officer who served as a government doctor in Delhi for six years, is offering medical assistance to patients in the wake of the strike, which has thrown health services out of gear in...
11:20 PM, Dec 26, 2011
Jaipur: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has reacted angrily to the ongoing strike as it enters its sixth day on Monday, causing the loss of around 50 lives, saying people were angry over "what is happening". "People are angry with what is happening. We have been talking to doctors but they are continuing with their agitation and that is why we have dismissed certain doctors." "These are steps we have...
08:45 AM, Dec 26, 2011
Jaipur: As the stalemate between agitating doctor and Rajasthan government continued for the fifth consecutive day, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Sunday appealed to the medicos to resume duty "in the interest of the society". Describing the doctors' strike as "unfortunate", Gehlot said, "The government is making all efforts to keep the situation under control and alternate arrangements have been made in view of the unfortunate strike." The medical crisis...
11:27 PM, Dec 25, 2011
