Officials mull ways to plug gaps; doctors blame administration, cite bad tradition...

Retired judge Ashim Banerjee, chairperson of the West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission, said it was ‘fraud’...

Health department tells private hospitals and nursing homes to submit a copy of the no-objection certificate issued by the government to each government doctor working there...

Bengal’s Swasthya Sathi health insurance scheme betrayed a lack of original thought just like its predecessors...

Hasnabad resident Sujoy Chakraborty survives on daily wages, loads and unloads construction materials, suffered injury...

During a sudden visit to the wards of the medical college, Singhania himself identified an alleged tout and instructed the hospital authorities to take steps against him...

Sources said that the state government was receiving complaints that several private hospitals were refusing patients even after they produced health cards...

We have restructured surveillance teams, says Narayan Swaroop Nigam...

CM Mamata Banerjee warned errant private healthcare units that her government would take “tough action” against those who refused the Swasthya Sathi card...

Trinamul MP Saugata Roy said there was an urgent need to have more such specialised hospitals in Kolkata...