Covid cases are on the decline in Bengal and it has brought about several changes in Kolkata’s healthcare.  Beds designated for Covid treatment are being reduced across hospitals, while no...

The clinical establishment commission on Monday asked Medica hospital to file an affidavit stating that it would offer discounts on medicines, consumables and pathological tests on the part of the bil...

Sujata Sinha Mandal appears at my south Kolkata home on an early December morning, before the Omicron wave. This is the fifth day since I have tested Covid-positive. Sujata changes and washes herself ...

The Mamata Banerjee dispensation has decided to create additional wards or set up new buildings at 140-odd government hospitals, which include medical colleges and district, block, primary and rural h...

Several hospitals in Kolkata are witnessing a marginal dip in admission of Covid patients over the last few days but doctors warned that it was too early to say the current wave of infections has star...

Patients with comorbidities admitted in hospitals and have incidentally tested positive for Covid are in need of more intensive monitoring of their primary ailments by experts from respective fields, ...

Consumer goods giant Unilever on Monday indicated that it would continue to chase the consumer healthcare business of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) plc, despite the latter rejecting its “unsolicited&rdq...

Consumer goods giant Unilever said it had approached GlaxoSmithKline about buying the pharmaceutical group’s consumer goods arm, after a newspaper reported that a £50 billion ($68.4 billio...

Calcutta Heart Clinic and Hospital Society has a new ambulance now, thanks to a donation by the Inner Wheel Club of Salt Lake Down Town. The air-conditioned Mahindra Supro ambulance was handed over o...

He said in emergency cases, the patient is taken to the operation theatre meant for emergencies before the test is done. “We get the sample collected and sent for testing even as the patient is...