The tiff between a government servant and a people’s representative has gone in favour of the latter after a doctor was transferred from her government hospital service because four months back she had refused to attend a Janata Dal (Secular) MLA Mahadev, over other waiting patients. According to the reports,[Read More…]
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Indore doctor becomes hero mid-air, saves heart attack patient on plane
An Indore based doctor named Akhilesh Dubey on Indigo flight to Chennai on the night of December 14, miraculously saved a heart-attack patient at 35,000 feet in the air. Around 9 in the morning, Chennai’s Ananthraman suffered a heart attack and slumped unconscious in his seat. His neighbour raised the[Read More…]
Delhi court summons doctor for treating homosexuals with electric shock therapy
Delhi based Dr P K Gupta, accused of using electric shock therapy to ‘treat’ homosexuality, was summoned by a Delhi court for violating the norms. The accused doctor Gupta allegedly considered homosexuality to be a “genetic mental disorder”. Though Dr P K Gupta was de-barred by the Delhi Medical Council (DMC), he was[Read More…]
MP: Patients’ family denies treatment from schedule caste, demands upper caste doctor
Madhya Pradesh: A doctor belonging to a Scheduled Tribe community has accused the relatives of two patients of beating him up since they wanted the patients to be treated by an “upper caste” person. As per S Khan, in-charge at Garha Police Station, the doctor named Geetesh Ratre at a[Read More…]
Selfie Trends: Govt institutions adopt selfie vogue to mark teachers’, doctors’ attendance
Expanding its usage, selfie trends has crept into many government sectors including hospitals, schools in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. After a school in Uttar Pradesh, now doctors in Munger district of Bihar have also been asked to submit their selfie to mark attendance. Making the best use of technology in[Read More…]
Doctor shot at in Delhi, suspects brothers behind attack
New Delhi: A doctor received four gunshot injuries early on Sunday when four unidentified assailants fired at him near his farmhouse in south Delhi, police said. Police said the victim Hans Nagar suspected his two brothers were behind the murderous attack. Hans Nagar had reached near the entrance to his farmhouse[Read More…]
Jammu government doctor sacked over Facebook post
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir government has terminated the services of the Registrar of the Government Medical College (GMC) Jammu for an “anti-government” post on Facebook, an official said on Sunday. Amit Kumar was sacked after he violated rules that prevent a government servant from using social media to write anti-government[Read More…]
Alarming rise of numbers of fake doctors in Karnataka
Health Minister K R Ramesh Kumar informed the Legislative Council on Monday that 2,869 cases of fake doctors had been identified across the state in the recent past. He added that the government is to blame here as they didn’t take measures to prevent it at the preliminary level. Replying[Read More…]
Woman brutally gang-raped, mutilated body found in Rohtak
In a brutal incident, a woman was gangraped, killed and her body was mutilated in Rohtak district of Haryana. She was abducted when she was on her way to work and brutally gangraped by at least seven men, suggest initial reports. Reportedly, the incident took place on May 9. The[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…]
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…]
Will not free doctor who helped US find Osama Bin Laden: Pakistan
An imprisoned Pakistani doctor believed to have helped the CIA hunt down al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden will be neither released nor handed to the United States, Pakistan’s law minister has told legislators, media reported on Wednesday. Dr. Shakil Afridi, hailed as a hero by US officials, was arrested[Read More…]
Pay Rs. 4.5L for amputating kid’s fingers without consent: Consumer forum to doctor
The apex consumer commission on Tuesday directed a doctor, who runs a private hospital in Rajasthan, to pay ₹4.5 lakh to a minor boy for amputating his two fingers without seeking consent from his parents. The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) also took note that the doctor, a West[Read More…]
UK doctor flown in to examine Jayalalithaa
A doctor from the UK has reportedly been flown in to examine Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa who had been admitted to Apollo hospitals in Chennai. AIADMK on Saturday asserted that the party supremo is healthy. “She needs rest as per doctors’ advice and will return in good health,” said[Read More…]
Gujarat horror: Doctor arrested for allegedly raping Dengue patient
In a shocking incident, a doctor of a private hospital in Gujarat has been arrested for allegedly raping a dengue patient in the ICU earlier this week. The woman, who is being treated in the Apollo hospital in Gandhinagar, was allegedly raped twice on Sunday and Monday. She has alleged[Read More…]
India’s real heroes: Building a better nation through healthcare
“’The cry of a new born is the most beautiful sound I have ever heard’, my father used to tell me when I was young as I listened to him enraptured. That’s when I decided that even I wanted to be a doctor. And here I am, working late nights[Read More…]