The state clinical establishment regulatory commission on Wednesday reduced the prices of CBNAAT and TRUENAT tests for Covid by Rs 200, the panel’s chairperson said on Wednesday. The new price ...

With few people above 60 turning up for the Covid booster dose, many private hospitals are planning to take the jabs to people.  But healthcare workers and elderly people coming down with Covid ...

One private hospital said most patients were getting admitted for the monoclonal antibody cocktail therapy. The state health department has decided to again convert MR Bangur Superspeciality Hospital...

The RN Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences has placed an order for 5,000 Covaxin doses for the new drive. “It will take around seven to 10 days for the supply to arrive. Only aft...

A man of limited means from Bangladesh fractured the same knee on which he had undergone a knee replacement weeks before.  The man sold his land and came to Kolkata for a surgery on the same kne...

The state government's decision to help private healthcare units get Covid vaccines from manufacturers has started showing effects with at least one hospital being able to procure doses on Friday ...

The percentage of positive results out of all Covid-19 tests done in a day has dropped at several hospitals and diagnostic centres in the city compared with the rate 10 days ago, but doctors have warn...

Several private hospitals in the city stopped offering slots for administering the first dose of a Covid vaccine on Thursday and Friday and some even failed to confirm appointments for the second dose...

Many elderly people across the city, who are either too ill to go out or stay alone, are calling up private hospitals asking whether it is possible to administer the Covid-19 vaccine at home. However,...

The West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission on Thursday asked Royd Nursing Home to pay Rs 1 lakh as compensation to the family of a woman who went into shock during anaesthesia and la...