Five private hospitals in Bandikui Rajasthan are under the scanner for conducting unnecessary hysterectomies. ...
10:19 PM, Apr 18, 2011
CNN-IBN talks Dr Narendra Gupta, who along with civil rights groups is doing a sou moto inquiry into the cases. ...
10:03 PM, Apr 18, 2011
Bandikui: An RTI report has revealed that the uterus of 226 women were removed in three hospitals of Rajasthan, after which the administration has temporarily suspended their recognition and ordered a three-member inquiry committee to probe the incident. Five private hospitals in Bandikui in Dausa Rajasthan are under the scanner for conducting unnecessary hysterectomies on women, all for money. The numbers speak for themselves with 226 hysterectomies in six months....
09:26 PM, Apr 18, 2011
Jaipur: Five doctors of a private hospital in Bandikui in Rajasthan, accused of removing uterus illegally, have gone on a strike. An RTI has revealed that the doctors operated on women to remove their uterus allegedly to make money. The RTI claims the doctors operated on 385 women over the last six months out of whom 226 had their uterus removed between March 2010 and September 2010. For each hysterectomy...
10:11 AM, Apr 18, 2011
Jaipur: Three hospitals in Bandikui are now under the scanner for making a business out of removing uterus among women mostly under 35 years of age. Thus depriving them of the chances to bear children. This was done by allegedly instilling fear among gullible village women that they would die unless uterus was removed. Information sought under the RTI has revealed that in the last six months alone the doctors...
07:00 AM, Apr 16, 2011
Hazare's protest has struck a chord with people from all walks of life. ...
07:02 PM, Apr 07, 2011
Doctors may eventually be able to tell whether a woman will face breast cancer by looking at her breast milk. ...
10:25 AM, Apr 06, 2011
Kolkata: The Election Commission has asked authorities of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation to stop recruitment of doctors as it violates the model code of conduct. KMC authorities had written for permission to the Election Commission for appointment of six doctors in different wards of the city, officials in the municipality said. Member, Mayor-in-Council (Health) Atin Ghosh said it would be difficult to provide service to the people in view of...
04:28 PM, Mar 20, 2011
Washington: At least six Indian Americans are among more than 100 doctors, nurses and health care executives arrested by the authorities in the biggest US crackdown on Medicare fraud. In all, 111 persons were arrested in nine cities across the nation on Thursday on charges of making false billings to defraud government health insurance programme Medicare of over $225 million. "We are pleased to announce the largest federal health care...
06:24 PM, Feb 18, 2011
In April 2010, CNN-IBN exposed a doctor of MCI involved in corruption, leading to the Council being dissolved. ...
11:51 AM, Jan 14, 2011
On Operation Bitter Pill, experts talk about the poor being shown the door in hospitals in India. ...
10:20 PM, Dec 09, 2010
Operation Bitter Pill discusses the harsh reality of Indian hospitals with Delhi's Health Minister. ...
10:12 PM, Dec 09, 2010
Operation Bitter Pill brings out the harsh reality of the finest hospitals of India. ...
10:00 PM, Dec 09, 2010
Chandigarh: Haryana Police have arrested five doctors and suspect five more, for running a racket -- deliberately inflicting injuries on people in an effort to frame others in criminal cases. Doctors who don't treat injuries but instead carefully create them for a fee have been arrested in Hisar, Haryana. Here's how the scam works: For fees upto a lakh and a half, doctors create serious-looking but superficial injuries onto the...
08:10 AM, Dec 07, 2010
People believe in several myths on allergies. It is time to sort out the facts from the myths. ...
01:37 PM, Nov 01, 2010
New Delhi: In a bid to check the widespread abuse of antibiotics, India's drug regulator, Drugs Controller General of India (DGCI), has proposed a new rule that will make it difficult for patients to self-medicate. Doctors will now have to write prescriptions for antibiotics in duplicate. One copy will have to be retained by the chemist for a year, from the date of sale, for verification and audit. Violations will...
11:05 AM, Oct 29, 2010
New Delhi: Doctors at Delhi's Deen Dayal Upadhyay (DDU) Hospital have called off their strike. They went on strike last night after one of them was beaten by a patient. Services were crippled this top Delhi hospital following an incident of physical assault by a patient. About 250 doctors at the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital went on strike late last night after a patient and his attendant allegedly beat up...
08:48 AM, Oct 02, 2010
Kolkata: Services in four government hospitals here were hit as strike by junior doctors entered the fourth day on Tuesday, even as the government claimed that a section of the protestors had resumed duty in 'some places' and the agitation will be withdrawn soon. "We have information that a section of the striking junior doctors have already resumed duty in some places. We are hopeful that the strike will be...
06:27 PM, Sep 28, 2010
Kolkata: Patients in Kolkata continue to suffer as the doctors strike in Kolkata's four out of five government hospitals enters its fourth day on Tuesday. The state government has warned of initiating disciplinary action against striking doctors if the cease-work is not withdrawn by 12 noon on Tuesday. More than 2000 junior doctors are on strike and the West Bengal government is likely to recommend cancellation of registrations of striking...
09:34 AM, Sep 28, 2010
Government health care services were brought to their knees in Kolkata on the 3rd day of the doctors' strike at the SSKM hospital. ...
10:03 PM, Sep 27, 2010
