Tag: Hospital

Puri: In a fresh development to the ransacking incident at the Puri District Headquarters Hospital (DHH) here, four senior doctors of the Government-run hospital resigned from their job pointing at the lack of security at the hospital today. Following this, the Chief District Medical Officer (CDMO) called for an important meeting to discuss on the […]

Bhubaneswar: In a bid to provide emergency health service to accident victims, the State government has decided to open eight more trauma care centres at prominent hospitals in the State. Informing this to media, Chief secretary AP Padhi, who chaired a high level meeting which discussed steps to check the rising road mishaps in the […]

Kalna (West Bengal): A pall of gloom descended on Kalna as 18-year-old goalkeeper Ripon Mali died after collapsing on the field during a football match at Nischintapur village in East Burdwan district, locals said. Ripon Mali was trying to snatch the ball from the opposing team’s forward in the air when he collapsed on Sunday. […]

New Delhi: In a first, Cardiological Society of India — a non-profit organisation — on Saturday announced the launch of an app that can help people suffering from heart disease with rapid and accurate information about the nearest health care centres. The app — named “Heart Attack” — would guide patients with real time information […]

New Delhi: Doyen of Hindi poetry Gopal Das Neeraj passed away this evening at the AIIMS trauma centre here. He was 93. A Padma Bhushan awardee, Neeraj had suffered a head injury following a fall at his house in Agra and was undergoing treatment at a hospital there, Dr Rajesh Malhotra, chief of the AIIMS […]

  Srinagar: A day after a tourist from Tamil Nadu died due to head injury suffered during stone-pelting here, Tourism department and stakeholders have expressed apprehensions that the incident may negatively impact the arrival of visitors to Kashmir. A 22-year-old tourist, R Thirumani, from Chennai was critically injured in a stone pelting incident at Narbal […]

  Chatra (Jharkhand): Fourteen persons have been arrested in connection with the alleged rape and killing of an 18-year-old woman by setting her on fire in Chatra district yesterday, a top district official said today. The victim, who suffered severe burn injuries in the incident, was declared “brought dead” by doctors when she was rushed […]

New Delhi: Rent paid by patients for hospital rooms will be exempted from the Goods and Services Tax (GST), the government said on Tuesday. Issuing clarifications on levy of GST on the tariff for various accommodation services, the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) said the tax on rooms in the hotel, guest house […]

Bengaluru: Indian hospital chain Narayana Health yesterday announced that it has renewed its partnership with convergence solutions provider ICT Health to use the Health Information Management System (HINAI) cloud web system. “As of date, 38 of our hospitals are using the ICT Health Hospital Information system and 19 outpatient clinics are using the ICT Health […]

Kolkata: A 24-year-old woman was allegedly gang raped by two employees of a hospital here, police said today. Both atatckers were arrested. The incident happened on late Friday at RG Kar Hospital. The woman, a resident of Murshidabad district’s Bahrampur, came to the hospital to visit a relative admitted there when the two accused, employed […]

Angul: A controversy has surfaced over the inauguration of the new building of Talcher medical college following allegations that the whole process is being done in haste by the Centre. BJD claimed that the new college is yet to get permission from the Medical Council of India(MCI) and even the infrastructure is not ready. “The […]

Puri: A minor boy undergoing surgery was allegedly thrashed by a doctor inside the operation theatre at Puri district headquarters hospital. As per the allegations levelled by the father of the victim, the accused doctor, PK Jena, thrashed the boy for crying inside the operation theatre. The boy was admitted at the hospital for a […]

Sambalpur: A youth received critical injuries after he was shot at in Rengali area of Sambalpur district on Friday. The injured, Amar Barik, was trying to resolve a dispute between two persons when he was attacked. After receiving bullet injuries in his left thigh, he was admitted to VIMSAR Hospital in Burla for treatment. As […]

Kolkata: Reprimanding the striking state hospital doctors, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday gave them a four-hour ultimatum to withdraw their strike and warned of “strong action’ if they do not resume work within the deadline. Banerjee visited the state-run Seth Sukhlal Karnani Memorial (SSKM) Hospital, where the junior doctors had joined in […]

Puri: A youth suffered critical injuries after four bike-borne miscreants hurled bombs at him near Baselisahi area of Puri district today. The injured, Sibaram Patra is now undergoing treatment at the District Headquarters Hospital. According to Patra, four were involved in the attack while he could identity only one of them. “The accused Dama came […]