Tag: Doctor

Balasore: Tension erupted at a privately run healthcare clinic located at the Central School Chhak in Balasore town today after a nine-month-old boy infant admitted to the clinic died due to alleged medical negligence. Parents of the deceased along with locals ghearoed and manhandled a doctor of the clinic alleging the infant’s condition turned critical and subsequently […]

Bhubaneswar: Country’s top medical regulator Medical Council of India (MCI) has warned doctors to stick on to guidelines issued for prescription of drugs in its generic names. A directive issued by the medical body said doctors have to adhere to prescribe low cost generic drugs instead of writing brand names while prescribing medicines, failing which […]

Bhubaneswar: The experience of two ladies, who had visited two famed hospitals in the Capital city on Saturday, raised an inevitable question, “Do doctors need to attend lessons on communication skills?” The two ladies identified as Sandhya and Kalpana had shared their experiences with Odishatv.in reporter. While Sandhya had visited Sum Hospital, Kalpana had paid […]

Sambalpur: The Vigilance sleuths on Thursday arrested Saroj Kumar Sethi, an associate professor of Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Medical Science and Research (VIMSAR) at Burla, while he was taking a bribe from a patient. According to sources, the anti-corruption wing of Odisha Police caught Sethi red-handed while he was taking a bribe of Rs […]

Keonjhar: Vigilance officials on Monday arrested ex-senior surgery specialist Jay Krushna Tripathy of the Keonjhar district headquarters hospital (DHH) on the allegation of amassing properties disproportionate to his known source of income. The total properties in the name of the doctor was calculated to be Rs 1,36,96,000. Sources said while a case was registered in […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Monday appointed 151 dental surgeons in the undivided Kalahandi-Balangir-Koraput (KBK) districts. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik handed over the appointment letters to the Bachelor in Dental Surgery (BDS) pass-out students at a seminar on “The role of dentists in the health care services” at Jayadev Bhawan here. “For the first time, […]

New York: Researchers have developed a shoe insole that could help make the healing process more portable for people who develop ulcers as a result of diabetes. Diabetic ulcers commonly result from high blood sugar damaging nerves, which takes away feeling from the toes or feet. “One of the ways to heal these wounds is […]

The dream of an orphan tribal boy in Odisha's Ganjam district to become a neurologist could be a reality as he ranked 13 in Scheduled Tribe category in All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) admission test

Berhampur: Prime accused in the spine-chilling murder case of a HDFC bank agent was arrested by a special team of Berhampur police, informed Berhampur SP Pinak Mishra in a presser today. “The murder was fallout of a triangular love affair between the deceased Bishnu Prasad Gouda, prime accused Hrushikesh Tripathy, the owner of Gayatri Clinic […]

Singapore: A 32-year-old Indian-origin doctor in Singapore has been fined Singapore dollars 2,000 for administrating a drug to a patient in wrong way at the Singapore General Hospital in July 2012. The Singapore Medical Council (SMC) said, Dr Garuna Murthee Kavitha injected the chemotherapy drug into the patient’s spinal canal, rather than a vein. This […]

The Aul police in the district arrested a youth on Monday for allegedly outraging the modesty of a woman patient admitted at the Community Health Centre (CHC) by posing as a doctor.

New Delhi: In India, there is one doctor for every 1,457 people as per the country’s current population estimate of 1.35 billion, which is lower than the World Health Organisation norm of 1:1000, the government has informed Parliament. A little over 11.57 lakh allopathic doctors are registered with the state medical councils and the Medical […]

New Delhi: A local BJP leader and his wife were booked by police for allegedly molesting, assaulting and threatening a woman radiologist in south Delhi, police said on Sunday. The incident occurred on Thursday in Duggal Colony when the accused Chandan Chaoudhary along with his wife Neera Chaoudhary, his driver, Sanjay and five other hired […]

Nabarangpur: The headmaster of Jhola Primary School under Umerkote Block in Nabarangpur district has drawn flak for allegedly offering quack treatment to patients during school hours. The matter came to light after some villagers alleged that headmaster Pradeep Kumar Mandal sets off to nearby villages to offer quack treatment soon after registering his attendance at […]

Bhubaneswar: Even as Covid-19 has confined most senior citizens indoors and even scared doctors, who are treating patients wearing PPE kits and taking all kinds of precautions to avoid infection, an 87-year-old doctor from Mul in Chandrapur district of Maharashtra has been going out of his way to attend to his patients in remote villages […]