Fractured Healthcare
India’s healthcare system has yet to match the country’s claimed growth in economy and living standards.
India’s healthcare system has yet to match the country’s claimed growth in economy and living standards.
The number of government-run medical colleges and hospitals in Odisha has increased from 12 to 14 in the last one year, the health and family welfare department officials said on Thursday.
A spokesperson of the State Health Authority (SHA) said that in response to communications from the Indian Medical Association (IMA), Haryana regarding its call for withdrawal of services, that all pending payments to empanelled healthcare providers are being processed and released in a timely manner.
The death toll in the explosion in a pharmaceutical unit at Pashamylaram near Hyderabad rose sharply to 32 on Tuesday, with about 15 injured succumbing at hospitals overnight.
Delhi Congress President Devender Yadav on Friday alleged that the patients admitted in the government hospitals are battling for survival amid heat-wave conditions in Delhi as the government made no elaborate arrangements for the surging temperature.
In the wake of two Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) cases reported in Karnataka, Delhi Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj on Monday assured complete arrangements in city hospitals to handle any potential rise in respiratory illness as per the advice of health ministry.
The Leader of Opposition in the Delhi Assembly, Vijender Gupta, on Monday expressed concern over the state government not being able to implement Centre's NIC-designed free software, Health Information Management System (HIMS), across all its hospitals.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Wednesday conducted a surprise inspection of the premier health institutions in Srinagar to gain firsthand knowledge of the facilities and services being provided to patients and their attendants.
As many as 182 hospitals and healthcare institutions in Rajasthan will very soon have the facility of providing haemodialysis treatment to needy kidney patients.
This afternoon, Lalbazar, KP headquarters, while responding to an email sent by the agitators on Friday night seeking permission for their dharna, lobbed a counter email to them denying permission for their programme.
