Doctors
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Odisha doctors join nationwide strike
India | June 17, 2019 13:06 ISTOut Patient Department (OPD) services have been affected, however, emergency services remained functional.
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SC to hear on Tuesday plea for safety, security of doctors at govt hospitals
India | June 17, 2019 12:14 ISTA vacation bench of Justices Deepak Gupta and Surya Kant agreed to list the matter for Tuesday after the counsel appearing for the petitioner, advocate Alakh Alok Srivastava, sought urgent hearing.
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Health Minister Harsh Vardhan writes to CMs of all states, calls for strict action against those who attack doctors
India | June 15, 2019 18:13 ISTHe also wrote to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday in this matter.
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Won't attend meeting called by Mamata Banerjee today: Striking doctors
India | June 15, 2019 12:21 ISTAfter her visit to the state-run SSKM Hospital on Thursday, Mamata Banerjee had alleged some outsiders had entered the medical colleges to create disturbances. She had also dubbed the agitation as a handiwork of the CPI(M) and the BJP.
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AIIMS resident doctors issue 48 hours ultimatum to West Bengal govt to meet demands of striking medics
India | June 15, 2019 9:24 ISTWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday invited them again to meet her on Saturday evening to end the impasse in government hospitals. The doctors, who struck work for the fourth day Friday, refused to meet the chief minister, demanding an unconditional apology from her.
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Here's why members of Resident Doctors' Association of AIIMS wear 'helmets' while doing their duties
India | June 14, 2019 14:01 ISTIn Jaipur, doctors at Jaipuria hospital carry out their duties wearing black bands.
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Harsh Vardhan appeals to doctors to hold symbolic protests only and continue to carry out their duties
India | June 14, 2019 12:57 ISTDoctors are protesting after two of their colleagues were attacked and seriously injured at the NRS Medical College and Hospital by a mob following the death of a patient. West Bengal CM alleged that opposition BJP and CPI(M) were instigating the protesters as part of a "conspiracy".
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Doctors' strike in West Bengal: Indian Medical Association to hold protest today | 10 points
India | June 14, 2019 11:11 ISTThe TMC and the BJP are locked in a bitter turf war in West Bengal, which has been rocked by post-poll violence, with Banerjee accusing the saffron party of trying to foment trouble in the state to topple her government. The BJP has claimed that Banerjee is targeting it as she is rattled by its major gains in Lok Sabha elections.
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Striking doctors defy Mamata's deadline, to continue stir till demands are met
India | June 13, 2019 17:03 ISTStriking junior doctors in West Bengal on Thursday defied Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's 2 pm-deadline to join work and said the agitation will continue till their demands related to their security in government hospitals are met.
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Rajasthan: 116 iron nails, long wire and iron pellet removed from stomach of man
India | May 15, 2019 7:11 IST"Neither he nor his family could tell how did the nails end up in his stomach," said doctors.
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Delhi: Government-run hospitals facing chronic shortage of doctors, making contractual recruitment to tackle crunch
India | January 20, 2019 13:06 ISTExplaining the reasons for the shortage, an official said many doctors, after completing their MBBS, opt for further studies or prefer joining the private healthcare sector due to its higher pay scale.
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'Primary aim of doctors is social service, making money should be their secondary aim,' says Rajat Sharma
India | November 26, 2018 7:59 IST"In fact, many hospitals have turned into commercial centres,” said Rajat Sharma.
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Doctors should strictly serve in rural areas before getting promotion, says Vice President Venkaiah Naidu
India | August 25, 2018 16:59 ISTHe said there was a need to increase the number of doctors available at healthcare centres in rural areas as the absence of qualified medical practitioners was making people approach quacks.
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UP: Cheating mafia in Meerut's CCS University helped over 600 non-deserving students become doctors
India | March 20, 2018 7:29 ISTThe cheating racket had been going on for the past four years and had helped over 600 university students become doctors through fake answer sheets.
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Blacksmith frees two-year-old's head from pressure cooker after doctors give up
India | February 27, 2018 10:43 ISTThe family members of the child who failed to separate the cooker from her head, rushed to a hospital for help. Doctors struggled for four hours and gave up at last as they could not remove the utensil.
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Resident doctors take out protest march to oppose National Medical Commission Bill
India | February 06, 2018 20:35 ISTThe doctors claimed that the proposed legislation would “cripple” the functioning of medical professionals by making them completely answerable to the bureaucracy and non-medical administrators.
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Patients suffer as doctors enjoy dance party at trauma centre in MP
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Meerut shocker: Doctors party with Russian belly dancers, deck ambulance with alcohol in govt medical college
India | December 26, 2017 17:40 ISTA video of the event, which shows Russian belly dancers performing on stage amidst cheering doctors, has since gone viral on social media platforms.
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Join Naxals, we will pump you with bullets: Hansraj Ahir to doctors skipping hospital event
Politics | December 26, 2017 13:23 ISTUnion Minister Hansraj Ahir today said "these people" should join the Naxals if they don't believe in democracy, and the government will then shoot them down.
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I-T unearths doctor 'referral fee' nexus in Bengaluru, Rs 100 cr black money detected
India | December 02, 2017 21:40 ISTWhile the labs searches have declared an undisclosed income of over Rs 100 crore, the amount of referral fee in case of a single lab is more than Rs 200 crore.
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