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Kanpur: Onemore person has been detained in connection with a kidney transplant racket that spans several Uttar Pradesh towns and involves unqualified practitioners and with possible international connections, officials said on Monday. Kanpur Police Commissioner Raghubir Lal said that he has written to the health authorities in Kanpur, Lucknow, Meerut, Noida and Ghaziabad, urging a crackdown on fake practitioners. So far, eight people have been arrested in the case, including two operation thea ...Read More >
Following the tragic death of a patient, four women have been arrested for allegedly assaulting a gynaecologist in Kerala, prompting calls for improved resources and security in healthcare facilities. Photograph: ANI PhotoKey PointsFour women were arrested for allegedly attacking a gynaecologist at a Kerala government hospital.The attack is linked to the death of a woman who had recently visited the hospital for delivery.The KGMOA condemned the attack, stating the doctor followed protocol and t ...Read More >
Ayodhya , A 32-year-old woman and her newborn allegedly died due to medical negligence after a delivery was conducted by "untrained staff" at a private hospital here, with the doctor directing the procedure over the phone, officials and family members said on Thursday. Following the incident late Tuesday night in Faizabad city, the health department sealed the hospital and launched a probe. Suresh Yadav, a resident of Beniganj, said his wife Soni Yadav was admitted to Maa Parmeshwari Devi Memo ...Read More >
AYODHYA: A 32-year-old woman and her newborn allegedly died due to medical negligence after a delivery was conducted by "untrained staff" at a private hospital in Ayodhya, with the doctor directing the procedure over the phone, officials and family members said on Thursday.Following the incident on Tuesday, the health department sealed the hospital and launched a probe.Suresh Yadav, a resident of Beniganj, said his wife Soni Yadav was admitted to Maa Parmeshwari Devi Memorial Hospital after she ...Read More >
Satna, Madhya Pradesh: In a disturbing case of medical negligence, four children suffering from thalassaemia were allegedly transfused with HIV-positive blood at a government hospital in Madhya Pradesh's Satna district. A routine, life-saving procedure turned into a nightmare for four families after the children, aged between eight and 11, battling thalassaemia, were found to be HIV-positive after receiving blood transfusions. The serious lapse has compounded the woes of the children who depend ...Read More >
Meerut: A disturbing case in Meerut has surfaced of alleged gross medical negligence where a private hospital doctor is accused of using Feviquik to seal a serious wound near the eye of a two-and-a-half-year-old boy instead of performing proper medical stitching. The child, Manraj Singh, son of financier Sardar Jaspinder Singh of Maples Heights, Jagriti Vihar Extension, sustained an injury near his eye after hitting the corner of a table while playing. ...Read More >
Jharkhand government has formed a medical team to find out how the child received contaminated blood. Four more children suffering from thalassemia were detected HIV-positive in Jharkhand's Chaibasa town on Saturday during an investigation by a five-member medical team from Ranchi, taking the total number of affected minors to five. The development comes a day after the family of a seven-year-old thalassemia patient alleged that the local blood bank in Chaibasa had transfused HIV-infected bloo ...Read More >
Chaibasa: Five children suffering from thalassaemia have tested HIV-positive in Jharkhand's Chaibasa town, leading to allegations of medical negligence at a government hospital. Families of the affected children claim that contaminated blood supplied by the local blood bank at Sadar Hospital may have caused the infection. Probe Ordered, Discrepancies Found in Blood Bank Following the allegations, the Jharkhand government has set up a five-member medical team from Ranchi to investigate the cas ...Read More >
New Delhi: A Delhi court, while observing on Wednesday that a pregnant woman was unnecessarily subjected to a C-section delivery a month before the due date, summoned her gynaecologist for the first time. The child, born in Feb 2018, died in Dec 2023 after prolonged illness. The child's father filed a case in 2021 citing medical negligence by the private hospital and four doctors, including the gynaecologist. In Aug 2019, Delhi Medical Council removed the doctor's name from the state medical reg ...Read More >
Bengaluru: After Delhi, nearly 40 schools in Bengaluru received bomb threats via e-mail on Friday morning, leading to panic among students, teachers and parents. Police teams have rushed to all locations and search operations are underway. Schools in R R Nagar and Kengeri were among those targeted, the police said. Cyber experts are making all efforts to trace the sender of the mail. Sources revealed that the sender could be suffering from mental health issues. In the mail, he has spoken about ...Read More >
Srinagar, July 18: Patient care services at the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMC&H), Jammu, have been severely disrupted on Thursday due to an ongoing strike by junior doctors over the alleged assault on two female doctors by a patient's relative. The situation has raised concerns over patient safety and the continuity of care. As the strike enters second consecutive day, it has crippled key services including outpatient care, in-patient treatment, and elective surgeries, while emer ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram: A government doctor at the Regional Institute of Ophthalmology (RIO) in Thiruvananthapuram has been suspended following a shocking case of medical negligence involving a 59-year-old woman. The patient, Asoor Beevi from Beemapally, had visited the hospital for an eye injection as part of ongoing treatment for vision problems linked to high blood pressure. However, Assistant Professor Dr. S.S. Sujesh mistakenly administered the injection to the wrong eye, says reports. The er ...Read More >
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