Many patients across India face the risk of being undertreated, overtreated or exposed to additional expenditure because dozens of medical colleges do not provide critical diagnostic tests to guide cl...

The Jharkhand government has taken a step, first time in the state’s over two decades of existence, to end cases of ramshackle government hospitals waiting for repairing for years. Additional c...

The state government has decided to carry out fire audits at all hospitals, state-run and private, to check their preparedness in handling an emergency and whether fire fighting measures are in order....

The state health department has sanctioned over Rs 21 crore for equipment  in government-run hospitals to treat children and adults  infected with Covid-19. “The state has allotted Rs...

Nurses in government hospitals are set to organise a rally on Friday to demand an end to an alleged pay disparity and have threatened to cease work if police use force to stop them from joining the ma...

The Jharkhand government had earlier directed each of the 24 districts in the state to set up at least a 20-bed special ICU for children to combat the third wave of the pandemic. An expert committee o...

Facing flak over a circular asking its nursing staff not to use Malayalam at work, the Delhi government-run G B Pant hospital on Sunday revoked the order and said strict action will be taken in the ma...

⚫ People testing positive for Covid but staying home on self medication, fearing they would not get a bed ⚫ Covid patients turning critical but not getting beds for several days ⚫ A section of...

The Bengal government on Tuesday requested the Centre to allow it to provide Covid vaccines to private hospitals for about four lakh people who have taken their first dose at private units across the ...

Around 200 additional doctors have been deputed on contractual basis for two months at the state-run hospitals and medical colleges in north Bengal to handle the spike in Covid-19 cases, sources in th...