Dr Bandyopadhyay has been associated with Critical Care in hospitals for over 25 years now. From his experience he tells us that there are two pillars to critical care: time and training. What does th...

Large housing complexes like Utalika and Avidipta are located in the area. New housing complexes of similar scale are coming up, along with a number of big schools. The Telegraph has reported several...

The girl’s condition worsened at night and the doctors advised that she be shifted to the paediatric intensive care unit (Picu). As AMRI Salt Lake does not have such a unit, they arranged for a ...

Several private hospitals in Kolkata have raised their OPD charges and other rates and many have written to insurance companies to revise their rates because of rising costs. The hospitals said they ...

The daily count of new Covid cases in Bengal has been up and down over the past few days and experts said it might be clear in the next fortnight whether a fresh wave is imminent in the state. In the...

Police arrested Dinabandhu Halder from Kultali in South 24-Parganas late on Tuesday and seized four country-made single-shot pipeguns from him. Halder was picked up during a raid to flush out illegal...

Chandramouli Bhattacharya, an infectious disease specialist at Peerless Hospital, said a large section of the population had started believing that Covid — or at least the worst of it — wa...

The hospital is having barely 20 recipients every day on an average. In late February and early March, the KMC had swapped 16,000 doses of Covid vaccines, which were to expire in March, with private ...

At least four hospitals in Kolkata have converted all Covid beds into non-Covid ones as no patient with the disease has been admitted for several days. A few other hospitals said one or two persons w...

One big private hospital group has got a new investor, while a healthcare chain in the city is set to get a new owner. Temasek, a Singapore-based investment firm, has invested around Rs 600 crore in ...