Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday inaugurated the first ever All India Institute of Ayurveda or AIIA. The institute has been launched in New Delhi and is modeled on the lines of AIIMS or All India Institute of Medical Science. Its inauguration took place on the occasion of ‘Ayurveda Day’,[Read More…]
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PM Modi to visit Himachal Pradesh; will lay foundation stones for AIIMS, IIIT
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Himachal Pradesh on Tuesday with a purpose to lay the foundation stone for an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and an Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) along with inaugurating a steel plant. Modi will lay the foundation stone for the AIIMS[Read More…]
AIIMS caps various medical test fee at Rs 500
Those visiting Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) will not have to pay for blood tests, X-rays, ultrasound scans and similar diagnostic procedures in the future. AIIMS, country’s premier state-run Institute, which caters to patients from Delhi and across the country, also plans to do away with admission[Read More…]
AIIMS doctors condemn Yogi govt for Dr Kafeel Ahmad’s removal
The decision of the Yogi Adityanath government to remove Dr Kafeel Ahmad has been strongly condemned by the Residents Doctors Association of AIIMS. Dr Harjeet Singh Bharti, President, AIIMS Residents Doctors’ Association, said, “We’ve already said that doctors alone are not responsible. Health Secretary, principal all have to take accountability.[Read More…]
Pregnancy is not a disease; no need to avoid sex, meat: Gynaecologists
The Ayush Ministry on Tuesday left many people, especially women ,concerned when it came up with the guidelines on what a pregnant woman should be doing and eating to deliver a healthy baby. The ministry has suggested that a pregnant woman should avoid having sex or feeling of lust, eating[Read More…]
Video: Doctor brutally thrashed by relatives of deceased patient
Just after the Doctors in Maharashtra called off their strike last night. A video set in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh has been posted by ANI of a doctor being brutally thrashed by relatives of a patient. The attack on the doctor in Uttar Pradesh took place on Thursday and the video[Read More…]
Maharashtra: Doctors strike spreading to other states
As Bombay faces a heath crisis scenario after junior doctor strike continues to strike despite the state court and government highly condemning the move. As per the Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD), a letter was issued to all the doctors protesting to resume to work immediately however, some continue[Read More…]
AIIMS doctors wear helmets to work
In solidarity with resident doctors in Mumbai, doctors have turned up at AIIMS hospital wearing helmets. Doctors are wearing it as a precautionary measure after relatives of a deceased patient had beaten up a resident doctor in Mumbai. Over 4,000 resident doctors from across Maharashtra have gone on mass leave,[Read More…]
AIIMS nurses to plan mass casual leave
As a protest against “discrimination” in the Seventh Central Pay Commission, nearly 5,000 nurses of the emergency services at AIIMS planned to go on a mass casual leave on Friday. The nurses union at AIIMS has also said that they will go on an indefinite hunger strike from March 27[Read More…]
JNU student found dead, autopsy to be videographed
After the death of MPhil student J Muthukrishan on Tuesday, his father demanded a doctor of their choice to conduct the postmortem examination. AIIMS wrote to the police that the entire examination will be videographed. AIIMS is likely to conduct the post-mortem examination on March 15. As per reports, Dr[Read More…]
Jayalalithaa had diabetes mellitus, says medical report
Tamil Nadu government on Monday released reports from Apollo Hospitals and AIIMS on the treatment given to late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa. AIIMS handed over the detailed medical report to state government. The report was submitted following a formal request from the state government on Sunday in a bid to[Read More…]
AIIMS hands over Jayalalithaa’s medical Report to TN Government
As Tamil Nadu recovers from the shock of the loss of their favorite leader, AIIMS on Monday handed over the medical report by its top doctors of late Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa to the state government. The report contains a detailed scrutiny of Jayalalithaa’s health condition by the[Read More…]
AIIMS sacks doctor over nurse’s death, issues show-cause notice to consultant
The management of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) sacked a resident doctor and served show cause notice to a consultant following the death of a nursing staff Rajbir Kaur during her delivery on February 4. “A termination order to the senior resident, anaesthesiology, who was found guilty for[Read More…]
Doctors in Delhi alarmed by increasing drug use among the city youth
Delhi doctors predict that amphetamine type stimulants (ATS) is becoming a common use among Capital’s youth as the newest ‘high’. Recently, the drug deaddiction department at AIIMS admitted two patients who have been suffering from chronic abuse of ATS drugs. ATS is the second most commonly used drug in the[Read More…]
No decision on making Aadhaar mandatory at AIIMS, says Union Health Secy
Alarmingly escalating rate of ‘selficide’ in India
Riya, an 18-year-old Delhi University student, isn’t the first case that has been referred to AIIMS department of psychiatry, suspected of suffering from ‘selficide’. In the last few months, there have been at least two other cases in AIIMS and three in Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, who were suffering from[Read More…]
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj undergoes kidney transplant at AIIMS
Union Minister Sushma Swaraj on Saturday underwent a kidney transplant at AIIMS, with the organ being harvested from a living unrelated donor. According to sources at AIIMS, the nearly five-hour-long surgery was conducted at the cardio-thoracic centre by a team of doctors including AIIMS Director M C Mishra, surgeons V[Read More…]
AIIMS flooded with calls from donors to help Sushma
As soon as people got to know that Sushma Swaraj is undergoing dialysis in AIIMS, the hospital is flooded with calls with kidney donation offers. The phone start ringing hours after Sushma tweeted about her kidney failure on Wednesday. “I cannot remember the exact number of calls that I have[Read More…]
Get well soon! Sushma Swaraj suffers kidney failure, put on dialysis
Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj is suffering from kidney failure and is on dialysis at AIIMS. “Presently, I am on dialysis. I am undergoing tests for a Kidney transplant. Lord Krishna will bless,” Swaraj said in a tweet on Wednesday. I am in AIIMS because of kidney failure. Presently,[Read More…]
AIIMS doctors in Chennai to attend to Amma as government asked to give update to Madras HC
Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa will now be attended by three specialists from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences at Chennai’s Apollo Hospital. This update was confirmed by hospital sources (HT) and on Thursday morning AIIMS doctors, pulmonologist Dr GC Khilnani, cardiologist Dr Nitish Naik and anaesthetist Dr[Read More…]
AAP lawmaker Somnath Bharti arrested for allegedly assaulting security guards
Aam Admi Party’s controversial lawmaker, Somnath Bharti was arrested over assault charges today. After Amanatullah Khan he is the second leader to be arrested in two days. He has been arrested for allegedly misbehaving with security guards at Delhi’s AIIMS hospital earlier this month as AIIMS or the All India[Read More…]
Prime minister promises AIIMS, fertiliser plant in Gorakhpur
Prime minister Narendra Modi on Friday fulfilled his poll promises in the Purvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh. Laying the foundation stone of AIIMS and a fertiliser plant in Gorakhpur he said this would aid development in eastern Uttar Pradesh. Addressing a large gathering after the foundation laying ceremony, Modi started[Read More…]