New Delhi: A recent study conducted by doctors at AIIMS and Maulana Azad Medical College has shown a startling increase in the number of celiac cases in the country. The study reveals that undiagnosed celiac or allergy to wheat may be a major cause of malnutrition in the country. Three-year-old Gudiya has body of a one year old, all because of a condition that is increasingly prevalent across India. Gudiya's...
08:48 AM, May 28, 2012
CHENNAI: A serpentine line of elderly women, 17-year-olds and assorted relatives, wound endlessly outside the rather dilapidated Panagal Hall at the Kilpauk Medical College. As it moved slowly into the building, it was evident that people had added twists and turns to the queue innumerable times to salvage whatever little shade they could manage.Even if we get sunstroke, I suppose there are enough doctors to attend to us, said Varadhu...
09:26 AM, May 16, 2012
Cuttack: A retired judicial magistrate and three others, including his wife and son were arrested on Wednesday for torturing his pregnant daughter-in-law and throwing her into a river with her hands and legs tied. The four - the retired judge, his wife, son and another person were arrested following a statement of the woman, who is fighting for her life in the SCB Medical College Hospital in Cuttack, Cuttack Deputy...
11:15 PM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a chargesheet against former union health minister Anbumani Ramadoss and nine others in a Delhi court in a corruption case. Ramadoss allegedly misused his position to give clearance to a medical college in Indore in 2008. According to the chargesheet, Ramadoss, two doctors of the Safdarjung hospital in Delhi, and owner of Index Medical College, Indore are the main accused...
05:52 PM, Apr 27, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Acting upon the recommendation of National Commission for Scheduled Caste (NCSC), Odisha government on Thursday initiated proceedings against three doctors for alleged dereliction of duty while treating the 19-year-old alleged rape victim of Pipili in Puri district. "While two doctors were working at the government hospital in Pipili, one doctor belonged to the Capital Hospital here where the alleged rape victim was shifted in unconscious state," an official said....
03:46 AM, Apr 20, 2012
Kolkata: Eleven babies have died in the last 2 days at the Malda Medical College and Hospital in the Malda district where barely two months back 20 newborns had died. Over 210 deaths have been reported this year from this same hospital. Six of the 11 babies were less than 28 days old. There's no clarity yet on what was the cause of the deaths Six of them died in...
08:07 AM, Apr 07, 2012
Malda: Nine babies died within a space of 12 hours at the Malda Medical College and Hospital in the district where barely two months back 20 newborns had died. Of the the nine babies, who died between Wednesday evening and Thursday morning, seven were aged between one and 26 days while two others were between the ages of six and eight months, hospital sources said. Six of them died in...
02:52 PM, Apr 06, 2012
Kozhikode: A three-member medical team from Christian Medical College hospital, Vellore, today examined veteran Malayalm film actor Jagathy Sreekumar, being treated at a private hospital here after his March 10 accident. The team expressed satisfaction over the recovery the actor has made, sources at Malabar Institute of Medical Sciences said. Kerala Assembly Speaker G Karthikeyan, who had also visited the hospital recently, said Chief Minister Oommen Chandy had intervened to...
05:14 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Burdwan: Seven persons were killed and 70 others were injured when a bus overturned near Ausgram in Burdwan district in the early hours on Saturday. The bus carrying members of a marriage party from Kolkol village in Burdwan district to Birpara in neighbouring Birbhum district overturned when the driver lost control over the speeding vehicle at around 3:30 am, police said. Among the dead were two children and many of...
09:29 AM, Mar 10, 2012
New Delhi: With the Supreme Court judgement that sanction to prosecute a public servant has to be given within three months, the health ministry has been forced to act. It's giving sanction to prosecute four government servants. The fifth on the CBI chargesheet is former health minister A Ramadoss. Ramadoss is accused of helping the medical college in Indore, the Index Medical college, to function. Ramadoss allegedly allowed Index Medical...
06:16 AM, Mar 05, 2012
Bankura: The doctor accused of raping a hearing impaired girl in Bankura Medical College on Wednesday has been arrested. The accused, Dr Ramkrishna Sarkar, will be produced before a district court on Thursday. DR Sarkar was arrested at 4 am from the hospital premises. He has been made accused under Indian Penal Code Section 376(2D) in the case. The Medical Superintendent of Bankura Medical College has been asked to go...
01:03 PM, Mar 01, 2012
Kolkata: A hearing impaired patient has been allegedly raped by a junior doctor inside the Bankura Medical College in West Bengal. A complaint has been lodged in the case. She has undergone a medical examination and will be taken to Kolkata for a second one. The victim's clothes and bed sheets have been sent for forensic examination. A three-member inquiry committee has been formed by the hospital authorities apart from...
11:04 AM, Feb 29, 2012
Malda: It's being called West Bengal's shame. Over 100 infants have died in state-run hospitals in January alone in Malda district. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who also holds the health portfolio, had promised to act, but the tragedy continues. The Malda Medical College and Hospital has inadequate infrastructure, doctors are few, and even those who are there are busy with private practices. Malda Medical College and Hospital has...
01:09 PM, Jan 30, 2012
New Delhi: Five more infants died at Malda Sadar Hospital on Friday, taking the death toll in one week to 37. "37 infants have died since the last seven days. Three infants and two children have died in the last 24 hours," reports said. Most of the children have died after they were referred from rural hospitals in critical state, the hospital said. The babies, who were born underweight and...
10:55 AM, Jan 27, 2012
Cuttack: SCB medical college and hospital authorities on Wednesday informed Orissa High Court that the condition of Pipili rape victim is static and the treatment management in the Cuttack hospital is same as that of AIIMS in New Delhi. Hospital superintendent in an affidavit mentioned that the patient is not responding to verbal command but is sluggishly reacting to light. Although she has slight fever, her blood pressure, respiration and...
12:16 AM, Jan 26, 2012
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