हैदराबाद के विद्यागर में स्थित आंध्र महिला सभा दुर्गाबाई देशमुख अस्पताल में एक शर्मनाक घटना सामने आई है. एक महिला मरीज, जो इलाज के लिए अस्पताल आई थी, के साथ वार्ड बॉय की ओर से दुर्व्यवहार किया गया. इस घटना ने अस्पताल की सुरक्षा व्यवस्था पर गंभीर सवाल खड़े कर दिए हैं. प्राप्त जानकारी के…
With the draft amendment bill of the NMC Act, which includes a provision allowing patients to appeal before the ethics board of the commission, in limbo since December 2022, the commission is repeatedly rejecting appeals filed by patients.In the latest rejection of a patient’s appeal on June 11, the section officer of the Ethics Section…
ALWAR: A 32-year-old woman was allegedly raped by a nursing staffer inside the surgical medical ICU of ESIC Medical College earlier this week, prompting police action and a hospital-level probe. The accused, Subhash Ghithala (30), has been barred from entering the hospital. The administration has also issued notices to the on-duty doctor and staff members,…
KOLHAPUR: A 75-year-old woman from Pachgaon village in Maharashtra‘s Kolhapur district succumbed to Covid-19 on Sunday at the CPR Hospital after four days of treatment. Hospital authorities confirmed that the patient had diabetes and died of complications arising from Covid.Reports surfaced about the Panchaganga crematorium workers refusing to handle the woman’s body. However, Kolhapur municipal…
NEW DELHI: Maharashtra police have launched a probe against a senior doctor in Latur for allegedly directing a colleague to “kill” a Covid patient during the pandemic in 2021.According to officials, the probe follows the release of an audio clip of a conversation between the accused, Dr. Shashikant Deshpande, and Dr. Shashikant Dange on social…
Police on Saturday arrested a male home nurse over the charge of assaulting an Alzheimer’s patient by undressing him and dragging him along the floor of the house. Police said Vishnu, 37, a native of Vilakkudy in Kollam, tortured Sasidharan Pillai, 60, a native of Thatta near Pandalam, on Thursday. Pillai is currently admitted in…
Representative Image generated by Danny KOTA: A 60-year-old partially paralysed man was mistakenly operated on at New Medical College Hospital in Kota after he responded to a call for another patient who shared his name, officials said Thursday.Jagdish Panchal was waiting outside the operation theatre while his son Manish was undergoing surgery last Saturday. When…
It’s been another long week in Canadian politics — and it looks as if it’s going to end with a snap-election call. Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to call an election on Sunday, and April 28 is the likeliest date, our sources tell us. I spent 48 hours traveling with Mr. Carney to Paris,…
Surgeons in Boston successfully transplanted the kidney of a genetically modified pig into a 66-year-old man with kidney failure last month, Massachusetts General Hospital announced on Friday. It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as part of a new…