The state health directorate issued showcause notices to a doctor and two nurses of Khardah’s Balaram Hospital for dereliction of duty that led to a mix-up of names of two aged Covid patients, w...

A man from Birati, pronounced dead by a Covid hospital two weeks ago, was brought back home alive by his son on Friday evening, days after his “cremation” and on the eve of his shraddh cer...

A doctor has corroborated a claim attributed to a nurse that negligence had led to the death of a Covid-19 patient at a medical college hospital in Kerala. Dr Najma Saleem, who works at the Governmen...

The clinical establishment regulatory commission on Wednesday issued an interim order asking two private hospitals to deposit Rs 1 lakh and Rs 4 lakh after they were prima facie found negligent in the...

The Assam Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has directed Dispur to furnish an action taken report on a July 9 complaint lodged by leader of the Opposition Debabrata Saikia, highlighting the plight of jai...

Family members and relatives of a quack who was under treatment at Malda Medical College and Hospital ransacked the office of the patient assistance centre on Wednesday morning after the patient died....

Medical complications associated with dengue are often “mishandled” by doctors and nurses in nursing homes because they do not have the expertise required to treat the disease, the Calcutta Munici...

A Delhi court directed Tihar jail authorities to treat Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad at AIIMS. The court also blamed the jail authorities for medical negligence and for not providing t...

In a bizzare incident on Tuesday, dead body of a 26-year-old man was referred to the central emergency room of state-run Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences from the mortuary after doctors going to...

A number of patients under treatment at the medical colleges in Siliguri and Malda have been taken either home or private nursing homes by relatives because of alleged delay in treatment.Around 330 ju...