The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has directed Doctors Sandeep Agarwal and Muffazal Ahmed to pay Rs 20 lakh and Rs 10 lakh, respectively, to Gyan Mishra of Lucknow, who died during pendency of the consumer complaint.
Apart from increasing access to tertiary healthcare and reducing the expenses, the new hospitals would also reduce the burden on the existing facilities.
A four-month-old child died and five others were injured in a fire that broke out at a private hospital at L.B. Nagar in Hyderabad on Monday, police said.
A guard of Delhi's Holy Family Hospital was assaulted by a group of men on Wednesday night. It was 8 pm in the night when the incident happened outside the hospital situated in Okhla. But what led to the attack? A mere parking issue.
Director of Medical Education, K. Ramesh Reddy directed hospital superintendent to conduct a probe and submit a report.
A fire broke out at the Shree Sir Sayaji General Hospital in Gujarat's Vadodara on Tuesday.
All of us pray for a healthy life. We don't want to be bedridden in a hospital. But there comes a time when we have to visit hospital to care for our dear ones. At that time, falling sick yourself is the last thing you want. But in a building full of patients, there always are chances of getting exposed to disease causing agent like bacteria etc. But scientists are trying to find solution to this problem and they are making great progress as well.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs Umesh Malik and Vikram Saini were among those who visited the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) activist.
Doctors and staff at a hospital in Thane were beaten up by the family members of a patient who was admitted in the ICU for blade injuries on his chest. A CCTV footage at the Kashinath Patil Hospital in Thane showed the family members thrashing doctors and vandalising the hospital property after they were stopped from paying frequent visits to the Intensive Care Unit.
Ghaziabad IMA president Dr D.P. Singh told the media the NMCB, if made into law, would cost dear to patients and downgrade the quality of medical profession.
OPDs in government hospitals across the country will be closed today in protest over the National Medical Commission (NMC) Bill which doctors say will encourage quacks.
An 11-day-old girl was severely injured after her bed caught fire from cow dung cakes her mother had burnt to ward off mosquitoes, officials said on Tuesday.
A two-month-old baby died after he was thrown from the window of a hospital here on Tuesday by his mother who was apparently depressed about her son being underweight, police said.
Forty-two people, including children, were admitted to a government hospital here after they complained of vomiting, diarrhoea and other food poisoning symptoms, a health official said on Thursday.
The multiple news reports shared by Priyanka Gandhi talked about the patients being treated in Rae Bareli, Etawah, Sambhal and Lalitpur by doctors who put on mobile phone torches and torches to see the patients.
Frustrated with police inaction, a 37-year-old businessman allegedly set himself afire within a police station compound in a west Delhi area on Wednesday, police said.
A clash allegedly broke out between doctors and relatives of a deceased patient at Bara Hindu Rao Hospital here late Saturday night, police said Sunday.
"Two cops, one Sub Inspector and one Assistant Sub Inspector, have been suspended for dereliction of duty. Five people have been arrested so far," said a Deputy Superintendent of Police to IANS over the phone, asking not to be named.
Rescuers have sent the injured to hospitals for treatment. None of them ares in critical condition, Xinhua news agency reported.
They were returning home from a picnic to Guldanda late on Saturday when the accident occurred, Superintendent of Police (SP) Raj Singh Gouria told PTI.
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