The girl’s condition worsened at night and the doctors advised that she be shifted to the paediatric intensive care unit (Picu). As AMRI Salt Lake does not have such a unit, they arranged for a ...
The West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission on Thursday asked three officials, including two doctors, of Medica Superspecialty Hospital to submit a written apology to the family of an...
The state’s health regulatory commission on Monday issued a series of advisories to private hospitals, one of which requires the healthcare units to provide drinking water to all patients for fr...
The West Bengal government has engaged global consultancy firm EY to review its Swasthya Sathi scheme, an official said on Wednesday.
Swasthya Sathi, a medical insurance scheme launched by the govern...
The state’s clinical establishment regulatory commission on Friday asked Horizon Lifeline to give Rs 5 lakh as compensation to the family of a patient because the hospital had not shared medical...
“It is true that the prices of reagents have come down. But the tests also require infrastructure and manpower. And these have a cost, too. We could manage with a reduced price when we were doin...
A private hospital in the city was on Wednesday asked to pay Rs 5 lakh in compensation to the family of a woman who passed away in the operating theatre in the evening after she was kept waiting for t...
Many people are refusing Covaxin and Sputnik V jabs from vials past their ‘expiry date’ though the Union health ministry has extended the date by six months.
A man has complained to ...
The West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission on Monday ordered AMRI Hospitals and Iris Multispeciality Hospital to refund various amounts to patients’ families after it found tha...
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...