KOLLAM: More people who had consumed contaminated chicken biriyani on Thursday were hospitalised on Saturday when they showed symptoms of food poisoning. They included 72 children at the Victoria Hospital for Women and Children and 161 people at the District Hospital.One person, Sunil Kumar, at the District Hospital whose condition turned critical has been referred to the Medical College Hospital,...
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The Rural Doctors Association of NSW (RDA NSW) is warning that the Greater Western Area Health Service's decision to place Coolah Hospital on bypass indefinitely, effectively shutting down the hospital's emergency department, will put lives at risk.The Association is calling on the Area Health Service to work urgently to recruit more nurses at the hospital-including by recruiting temporary nurses through...
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Hospitals are beginning to rebound from the recession, which many economists think ended last month. Thereports: "Thompson Reuters Corp., a New York-based financial information company, tracked 439 hospitals nationwide - 37 in Texas - covering small, medium and large community hospitals and teaching hospitals" to create a report released Monday that showed the change."Among the key findings: The percentage...
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health department has finally given its consent to five private hospitals in the national Capital to screen H1N1 suspects.In case of people testing positive for the viral infection, these hospitals will be allowed to admit them and start appropriate medication.The five hospitals that have been given the requisite permission to start screening of patients are Moolchand Medcity, near Moolchand flyover;...
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Nagpur MunicipalCorporation's (NMC's) health committee announced a new fee structure for privateand trust-run hospitals to increase its revenue. It has also decided to pay 36private hospitals for carrying out free delivery of slum dwellers. Till now thisfacility was only available at government and NMC hospitals.Healthcommittee chairman Baba Maind said that till now NMC had been charging uniformRs...
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Rajendra Nagar resident could afford the best possible hospital care. He didn’t get it.“We wanted 24-hour care in a good hospital, but could not get a bed in either Ganga Ram or Jessa Ram hospitals,” said his son Rakesh Tripathi, who finally hired nursing attendants to care for his father at home.“My father was not critical, so we are not complaining. But what I find unbelievable is patients are waitlisted...
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VILLUPURAM: If any of the hospitals listed under the Kalaignar Health Insurance Scheme for Life-Saving Treatments happen to collect fees for pre-surgery examinations or commit any omissions in performing surgery, they would be derecognised, Collector R. Palanisamy told reporters here on Friday.Besides blacklisting those hospitals, penal action would also be initiated. He said that complaints against...
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Government has appointed Dr. Ashok Rana as nodal officer for Apollo Hospital to take care of poor patients.The decision has been taken in pursuance of the Delhi High Court’s orders to appoint a nodal officer for private hospitals to enforce the government provisions for extending medical treatment to the poor.As facilitator, Dr. Rana has been allotted Room No. 1001 in the hospital. Poor patients from...
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Huma Akram (42), wife of former Pakistan cricketer Wasim Akram, on Sunday died of cardiac arrest and severe refractory shock at the Apollo Hospital here, a hospital release said.She was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday after her condition turned serious in the air ambulance on which she was being taken to Singapore for treatment.The doctors accompanying her recommended that she be admitted to the...
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sight of four persons herewas severely affected following cataract operations conductedon them by a private hospital.The private hospital conducted cataract operations onover 30 people last week and 16 of them developedpost-operative complications like problem in vision and painin the eyes, Nellore District Collector K Ramgopal told PTIover phone.Following the complications, the hospital shifted thepatients...
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