Private hospitals in the city have witnessed a surge in Covid admissions over the past three days, forcing them to increase beds on an emergency basis and many are apprehending a crisis if the trend c...

Two months after Sanjay Pandey was sacked, the private hospital in outer Delhi where he used to work as a clerk began recruiting staff again. “But they wouldn’t re-employ me,” the 5...

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....

Patients or their families can call a helpline number mentioned on the back of their Swasthya Sathi cards if they are refused admission by any hospital despite showing the card, the chairperson of the...

The West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission asked Apex Clinic Private Limited in Behala on Monday to refund Rs 1.2 lakh to a patient after it was found that the hospital had charged e...

Several private hospitals in Calcutta are witnessing a slow rise in the admission of Covid patients. Health officials, too, said they were noticing an uptick in Covid admissions and warned people not...

The West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission on Tuesday refused to change the cap on the rates of various diagnostic tests - which it had announced in July, despite objections from pri...

The West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission on Wednesday asked several private hospitals to refund part of the amounts paid by patients’ families as the bills had been prepared ...

One casualty of Covid across private hospitals in Calcutta is the corporate annual health check-up. Most big hospitals did not have any person coming for the routine health check-up for the past one-...

The number of new Covid cases every day has been varying between 800 and 1,000 over the past 15 days, a trend that has triggered concern among state government officials and public health experts. Se...