Revered anti-apartheid icon and former South African President Nelson Mandela was "breathing without difficulty" after being treated for pneumonia, the Presidency said on Saturday as the 94-year-old leader spent a third day at an undisclosed hospital. ...
06:50 PM, Mar 30, 2013
Karnataka Health Minister SA Ramadas said on Saturday that criminal proceedings will be initiated against the hospital that provided treatment to a woman who has been in near vegetative state for three years post a botched surgery. The hospital has been given time till Saturday evening to respond on how they will provide compensation to Shailaja's family. ...
03:15 PM, Mar 30, 2013
Karnataka Health Minister SA Ramadas on Saturday met the family of the woman who was left severely incapacitated because of a botched surgery in a Bangalore Hospital. The minister had earlier promised quick action after a CNN-IBN Citizen Journalist campaign exposed the hospital's negligence during the victim's treatment. ...
01:52 PM, Mar 30, 2013
Karnataka Health Minister SA Ramadas's representative on Saturday met the family of the woman who was left severely incapacitated because of a botched surgery in a Bangalore Hospital. The representative conveyed to the family members that they could meet Ramadas at his office on Saturday. ...
01:08 PM, Mar 30, 2013
The Delhi government is set to build 12 new hospitals with a total bed strength of 2,900, Health Minister AK Walia said on Friday. ...
10:34 PM, Mar 29, 2013
In a horrifying incident of medical negligence, a woman was left severely incapacitated for the last three years because of a botched surgery by a Bangalore Hospital. Karnataka Health Minister SA Ramadas promised swift action to help her. ...
09:11 PM, Mar 29, 2013
In a horrifying incident of medical negligence, a woman was left severely incapacitated for the last three years because of a botched surgery by a Bangalore Hospital. After a CNN-IBN campaign, Karnataka Health Minister SA Ramadas has spoken out and promised action by Saturday. ...
08:40 PM, Mar 29, 2013
In a horrifying incident of medical negligence, a woman was left severely incapacitated for the last three years because of a botched surgery by a Bangalore Hospital. Thirty eight-year-old Shailaja was admitted to Mallige Medical Centre on November 29, 2009 for severe back pain. ...
08:07 PM, Mar 29, 2013
Former South African president Nelson Mandela has been admitted to hospital with a recurrence of a lung infection, the government said on Thursday. A statement said the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader was admitted shortly before midnight. It gave no further details other than to say he was receiving the "best possible expert medical treatment and comfort". ...
12:51 PM, Mar 28, 2013
A Brazilian doctor who was charged with killing seven patients to free up beds at a hospital intensive care unit may have been responsible for as many as 300 deaths, according to a Health Ministry investigator. ...
09:34 AM, Mar 28, 2013
Proceedings in the Delhi gangrape case on Monday was adjourned for an hour when one of the accused could not be brought to the fast track court hearing the matter as as he was admitted to Safdarjung Hospital for chest pain. ...
03:55 PM, Mar 25, 2013
Women and Child Development ministry has planned an initiative under which hospitals in 100 districts would have one-stop crisis centres to resolve problems being faced by women. ...
02:12 AM, Mar 24, 2013
Indian women's kabaddi team coach Sunil Dabas, who is also a teacher in a Gurgaon school, reportedly fainted after a Congress MLA passed some lewd and insulting comments against her during a function in Gurgaon. The alleged incident took place at DSD college, Gurgaon. ...
03:25 PM, Mar 23, 2013
Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl, shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting girls' education in her country, on Tuesday defied her attackers by returning to a school in Britain, where she underwent several surgeries. "I am excited that today I have achieved my dream of going back to school," she said after her first day of classes at Edgbaston High School for Girls in Birmingham. ...
11:45 PM, Mar 19, 2013
A two-and-half-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a wardboy of the government hospital at Kanad town, about 30 kms from Shajapur, police said. The incident took place yesterday when the girl was at the hospital with her mother, who had been admitted there for delivery, they said. ...
04:55 AM, Mar 16, 2013
A class 9 girl student set herself on fire in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh after she was repeatedly sexually harassed. She was admitted to a hospital in a critical condition in Moradabad from where she was referred to Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital. ...
03:46 PM, Mar 13, 2013
Two people have succumbed to H1N1 virus in various parts of Gujarat in the last 24 hours, the death toll due to swine flue death has risen to 103 even as as many as 133 persons are undergoing treatment at various hospitals. ...
09:47 AM, Mar 13, 2013
A minor boy died after a teenager administered a drug overdose to him in Delhi, police said on Sunday. The accused has been taken into custody. "Saurabh, a class 5 student was playing outside his house in Karawal Nagar in east Delhi, on Saturday afternoon, when he was allegedly taken by a 17-year-old neighbour to an isolated place and injected with a drug overdose," said a police officer. ...
05:47 AM, Mar 11, 2013
Former South African president Nelson Mandela was discharged from hospital on Sunday after undergoing a medical check-up, the presidency said. ...
03:45 AM, Mar 11, 2013
Seventeen people sustained burns and around 150 huts were gutted in a major fire that engulfed a slum near Bandra station, officials said on Thursday. ...
04:17 AM, Mar 08, 2013
