Patiala: The mystery surrounding the death of Anuradha Bali aka Fiza continues as the pathology department of a local hospital could not arrive at any conclusion about the reason for her cardiac arrest. A team led by the head of the department at Rajindra Hospital, Dr Manjeet Singh, Dr Anil Suri and Vijay Kumar Bodna, both associate professors have examined the heart samples of Fiza which was in a "highly...
04:28 AM, Aug 17, 2012
Meerut: Two doctors of a private nursing home in Meerut allegedly raped a woman at the facility during treatment, police said. On the basis of the complaint of the 32-year-old victim, a case of rape has been registered against two doctors of the nursing home, SP City Om Prakash told reporters. The woman, who belongs to Muzaffarnagar, was admitted in the nursing home on August 5 and was to be...
02:32 AM, Aug 10, 2012
The Karnataka Assembly has passed a bill making it mandatory for doctors to serve in rural areas for a period of one year, or pay hefty fines to the government. The bill comes into effect immediately. ...
01:05 PM, Aug 02, 2012
New Delhi: Doctors with government and Team Anna on Wednesday differed on hospitalisation of fasting activists, including Arvind Kejriwal who alleged that the official medical report was "fake" and refused to get admitted. In his communication to the police, RML Medical Superintendent Dr TS Sidhu said the physicians who examined Anna Hazare and other fasting activists have "strongly advised" that Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and Gopal Rai be "immediately" moved to...
08:58 PM, Aug 01, 2012
London: An Indian-origin doctor, who came to the UK in 1966 and went on to excel in medical practice to win royal honours, has hit the headlines by defying death by being cured of cancer even though he was given few months to live. Rami Seth, who studied Medicine in New Delhi, also held his own 'wake' to party and bid goodbye to his family and friends, only to survive...
03:20 PM, Jul 24, 2012
Bhopal/New Delhi: As the government has called a high-level meeting on Wednesday to draw up a code of conduct for doctors and pharmaceutical companies, CNN-IBN has accessed documents that show that pharmaceutical companies fund foreign trips for doctors and their families in return for pushing their products. The documents also show that the doctors prescribe drugs without proper clinical trials. The documents consisting travel details of a group of 11...
10:03 AM, Jul 18, 2012
Patna: Health Minister Ashwani Kumar Choubey has urged doctors from Bihar living in Britain to donate one pound every day to help build a super speciality health centre in the state. The minister made the appeal at a function organised by the Bihar-Jharkhand Medical Association at Doncaster in South Yorkshire Monday, said a health department official here Tuesday. Choubey also requested the doctors from Bihar to help the state utilise...
03:47 PM, Jul 17, 2012
Chennai: City police registered a case on Sunday night against two doctors who allegedly raped a teenage nurse who came to Chennai for a training programme from Kerala. The nineteen-year-old girl arrived in the city on July 8 for a special training programme in the Kerala Ayurvedic Health Centre in Anna Nagar. She had recently joined the centres branch in Tiruchy. The doctors, Ajil Kumar (43) of Tiruchy, and KR...
01:20 PM, Jul 17, 2012
New Delhi: Less than a week after the monsoon hit the national capital, scores of cases of dengue and malaria have already been reported. More than 86 cases of Malaria and five cases of dengue have been reported, which is almost double the number of cases reported in 2011 till early July. But health authorities say there is no cause for alarm. MCD Health Officer NK Yadav said, "There is...
01:40 PM, Jul 12, 2012
New Delhi: After Bulandshahr and Ballia, two more incidents of class 4 employees posing as doctors in Uttar Pradesh have come to light in Meerut and Kushinagar. This time the Chief Medical Officer's driver was caught on camera administering saline drips to patients in the district government hospital in Kushinagar on Wednesday. The man, identified as Rajendra, was treating patients in emergency and general wards. However, the CMO claimed ignorance...
08:09 AM, Jul 12, 2012
Some of the patients at the government in Bulandshahr said that the ward boys at times treated them. ...
04:08 PM, Jul 10, 2012
New Delhi: The poor state of healthcare services in a government hospital in Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh has been exposed. Class 4 employees have been caught on camera performing the duties of doctors. The hospital has 23 trained doctors but a sweeper was caught giving stitches to a patient. The video also shows a ward boy administering tetanus shots to another patient. What's more shocking is that all this took...
07:25 AM, Jul 10, 2012
Betul: Eleven-month-old conjoined twins in Madhya Pradesh, Aradhna and Stuti, have got a new lease of life. They have successfully been separated by a team of 23 doctors and 11 nurses from Australia and India. June 20 will be a red-letter day in the lives of Aradhna and Stuti. Forced to stay apart from their parents for 11 months, the conjoined twins were finally separated after a 12-hour mammoth operation...
09:02 AM, Jun 29, 2012
Hyderabad: The state wing of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) staged a protest at government hospitals across the State as part of the medical bodys nationwide strike against the Centres move to bring in a National Commission of Human Resources for Health (NCHRH) Act in place of the Medical Council of India (MCI). Addressing the protestors at the Government Chest Hospital, Hyderabad, Dr N Appa Rao, chairman of the Special...
12:47 PM, Jun 26, 2012
Patna: Over 4,000 doctors on Monday abstained from work in Bihar to protest against the Centre's proposal to set up the National Commission of Human Resources for Health (NCHRH) to regulate medical services in the country and related policies, an Indian Medical Association spokesman said. "Over 4,000 doctors abstained from work to protest the Centre's proposal to set up the NCHRH in place of the Medical Council of India (MCI)...
07:01 PM, Jun 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the day-long nation-wide strike called by the Indian Medical Association to protest against certain reforms initiated by the Central Government in the medical field. A bench of justices HL Gokhale and Gyan Sudha Misra, however, hoped the doctors would desist from going ahead with the proposed strike in the interest of the general public. "We find force in the submission...
12:45 PM, Jun 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian Medical Association has called for a nationwide strike on Monday, protesting amendments made to Acts relating to clinical establishment and private practise. However, they have assured that emergency services will not be hit. Medical services in Rajasthan are likely to remain paralysed on Monday when doctors affiliated to IMA will go on a daylong nationwide strike to protest the proposed amendments to Acts related to clinical...
07:44 AM, Jun 25, 2012
New Delhi: Bollywood actor Aamir Khan has hit out at doctors who claim his show 'Satyamev Jayate' has tarnished their image. After highlighting social issues affecting Indian society, Aamir Khan, in the fourth episode of his show, turned the spotlight on healthcare and malpractices in the medical profession. He highlighted unethical practices, corruption and scandalous revelations in medical treatment. Soon after, an umbrella body of 21 medical institutions had asked...
07:34 AM, Jun 25, 2012
Jaipur: Medical services in Rajasthan are likely to remain paralysed on June 25 when doctors affiliated to IMA will go on a daylong nationwide strike to protest the proposed amendments to acts related to clinical establishment and private practice. "Private hospitals, consulting chambers, diagnostic centres, clinics, nursing homes will remain closed on June 25," Indian Medical Association's state honorary Secretary Dr SS Agrawal told reporters on Saturday. Government doctors will...
08:16 AM, Jun 24, 2012
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday suspended 20 senior health officials after their names cropped up in an ongoing CBI probe into embezzlement of over Rs 10,000 crore of the National Rural Health Mission fund. "The government has suspended 20 doctors, including those having additional chief medical officer's rank, whose names were given by the CBI during inquiry into NRHM scam," Health Minister Ahmad Hasan said. Hasan said director...
11:18 PM, Jun 09, 2012
