60 patients in mental hospital waiting for discharge
New Delhi|HL
Around sixty male and female patients from a mental hospital in Bareilley in Uttar Pradesh are waiting for discharge.
The Supreme Court today refused to accord an urgent hearing to a plea seeking release...
Need of 10 lakhs heart transplant donors in India
Kolkata|HL
Though the heart transplant success rate in India is 85 percent , the country needs 10 lakh more donors to meet its requirement for heart transplants, said doctor here Sunday.
However, the...
India Inc’s staff costs grow; sharpest surge in IT, pharma
New Delhi |HL
Indians may be the happiest employees according to the Edenred-Ipsos Barometer, and there's a reason for that, at least in some sectors. In the past 10 years, the cumulative salary bill at...
Health Ministry disapprove the proposals for setting up 83 new medical colleges
New Delhi |HL
The Union Health Ministry disapproved the proposals for setting up of around 83 medical colleges based on recommendations of Medical Council of India.
On the other hand the Ministry has approved the establishment...
MCI direct Medical colleges to share details of faculties
New Delhi|HL
Medical Council of India has directed all medical colleges to send in details about their faculty within two days so as to upload these on its website.
Following directions of the Oversight Committee...
Deaths due to AIDS in India reduced by 55 per cent-Nadda
UN|HL
Deaths due to AIDS in India have been reduced by nearly 55 per cent since 2007, while new HIV infections saw a reduction by 66 per cent since 2000 said Union Minister...
56 Drugs used for Cancer, diabetes and BP will soon cheaper in India
New Delhi|HL
The drugs used for the treatment of cancer, diabetes, bacterial infections and high blood pressure, may be cheaper with the government fixing their ceiling prices under the drug pricing control mechanism.
The prices...
Committee formed to investigate the kidney racket by Apollo
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New Delhi|HL
Apollo Hospitals has formed an independent investigative committee to tighten its current organ transplant approval system following a kidney racket recently busted at the hospital.
The committee, headed by Mukul Mudgal, former...
24/7 ‘VCare’ medical helpline for former personnel of Army
Kolkata|HL
24/7 helpline ‘VCare’1904 is opened for Ex-seviceman of army in Kolkata today.
Ex-servicemen in West Bengal can now dial 1904 to get any medical help or even for buying provisions from the canteen.
Former...
Government to develop Medical devices parks on PPP model
New Delhi|HL
Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers Annanth Kumar said “the government has decided to establish 3 bulk drugs and medical devices parks across the country.”
The parks will be established on the public private...
