- Created on 18 June 2018
Bengaluru: KIMS doctors intensify stir, boycot OPD
DTMT Network
BENGALURU: Doctors and medical staff associated with the Rajya Vokkaligara employees association on June 18 intensified their protest by boycotting work in the OPD of the Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) hospital.
- Created on 16 June 2018
Sanitary inspectors' recruitment hit by degree dispute
DTMT Network
CHENNAI: Upkeep of hygiene and sanitation across Tamil Nadu is facing a serious crisis as the state is unable to recruit sanitary inspectors. This is because there is a dispute regarding the recognition of the institutes that provide the sanitary inspector certificate, a necessary qualification for the post.
- Created on 16 June 2018
IMA demands changes in Ayushman Bharat scheme
BS RAWAT
NEW DELHI: The Modi Government's Ayushman Bharat scheme has hit a huge roadblock even before it has begun with the Indian Medical Association pointing out major flaws in the way it is being designed.
- Created on 18 June 2018
Suicide of PG student in Bhopal exposes medical education mafia
Rohit Shishodia
The suicide of Dr Smriti Laharpure, 32, at Madhya Pradesh’s Index Medical College (IMC)-Indore, over alleged demands of hiked fee after her admission in the college, has drawn criticism on the social media sites from doctors. They have demanded justice for Dr Laharpure.
- Created on 16 June 2018
Dr Kumar's rejoining: AIIMS docs to approach Women's Commission
Rohit Shishodia
The resident doctors of Delhi-AIIMS have expressed unhappiness over the rejoining of duties by Dr Prof Atul Kumar as chief of RP Centre again. Dr Kumar was asked to leave the post in April 2018 by the hospital administration till the completion of the enquiry in the case in which he had slapped a senior resident doctor in front of patients and doctors.
- Created on 15 June 2018
Wadia Hospital doctors remove earring from 1-yr-old baby's windpipe
DTMT Network
The doctors at Mumbai's Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital for Children saved the life of one-year-old Khushi who had swallowed an earring. Doctors in other hospitals could not detect this for several days even in X-Ray and were treating her for breathing difficulty, till her condition deteriorated and she was brought to Wadia Hospital.
