Tag: Hospitals

All the chief medical officers (CMOs) of the state have been directed to ensure that nameplates, signboards and other information on display in the hospitals must also be written in Urdu along with Hindi.

  Jajpur: A 14-year-old boy, who along with her mother was swept away in Baitarani River near Bandal village of Jajpur district, died while undergoing treatment at a hospital. According to sources, the deceased along with his mother was swept away by the river current while taking bath today morning. The mother-son duo was rescued […]

New Delhi: Seventy-four per cent of respondents in a recent set of polls said that corruption related to procurement/supplies is a common phenomenon at government hospitals while just 2 per cent said that was not the case. Twenty-four per cent were not sure about this. Citizens’ engagement platform LocalCircle conducted the surveys in the wake […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government, which is expecting investment of Rs 1,100 crore in healthcare sector in the next five years, is encouraging private players to set up hospitals in remote areas of the state. “We have come out with a policy with a host of incentives and exemptions for private players to set up quality healthcare […]

Puri: It seems there is no end to the problems of residents living in and around Puri after cyclone Fani made its landfall in the coastal district on May 3. Many local residents of Brahmagiri, Krushnaprasad, Chandanpur and Satyabadi areas of the district are reeling under diarrhoea outbreak after the extremely severe cyclone. The affected […]

Bhubaneswar: All government- run hospitals in Odisha will have e-hospital management system, informed Odisha Health and Family Welfare minister Naba Kishore Das on Monday. All the 384 CHCs (community health centres), 1318 PHCs (primary health centres), seven medical colleges and 32 district headquarters hospitals will have the Odisha e-Hospital Management Information System (OeHMIS) facility within […]

Bhubaneswar: As part of a State-wide campaign ahead of the roll out of ambitious ‘Mo Sarkar’ initiative on October 2, Odisha Police turned heat on touts and middlemen (dalals) exploiting poor & vulnerable patients in several hospitals across the State. As per official sources, as many as 31 middlemen have been arrested in a major […]

Bhubaneswar: On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik will launch ‘Mo Sarkar’ programme in police stations and hospitals tomorrow. Ahead of the launch, Police Commissioner Sudhansu Sarangi and Director General of Police BK Sharma have already reviewed the functioning of the call centres and collected feedback from various complainants coming to […]

Rourkela: At a time when the 5T team of Odisha government is making regular visits to hospitals across the State, patients and students of Utkalmani Homeopathic Medical College & Hospital (UHMC) in Rourkela are facing hardships of sorts. As per reports, the 25-bedded hospital has an out-patient department and other facilities, but there are not […]