Faulty hip implants: Delhi HC refuses to urgently hear Johnson & Johnson’s plea against compensation

The court said it would be inappropriate to pass any orders in the matter as the Supreme Court was hearing a different case related to the compensation.

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· Dec 12, 2018 · 09:55 pm

Johnson & Johnson faulty implants: Centre’s compensation formula unacceptable, say affected patients

Their letter to the government came a week after the Centre approved compensations between Rs 30 lakh and Rs 1.23 crore for such patients.

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· Dec 06, 2018 · 10:10 pm

Johnson & Johnson hip implants: Supreme Court gives expert panel a week to file its response

The top court on October 5 had directed the government to submit the expert committee’s report within a month.

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· Dec 03, 2018 · 12:01 pm

Johnson & Johnson hip implants: Centre approves compensations between Rs 30 lakh and Rs 1.23 crore

The amount of compensation will be decided by the person’s age and level of disability.

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· Nov 30, 2018 · 08:32 am

Johnson & Johnson faulty hip implants: Victims to boycott compensation, say process not transparent

The complainants questioned the credibility of the panel that the government appointed to settle the claims.

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· Oct 16, 2018 · 04:50 pm

All patients fitted with Johnson & Johnson’s faulty hip implants can claim compensation, says panel

The extent of damage will be examined and thereafter the compensation will be decided, committee chairperson Dr RK Arya said.

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· Oct 09, 2018 · 11:48 am

Faulty hip implants: Supreme Court asks Centre to respond to PIL filed against Johnson & Johnson

The top court also directed the government to submit the report of an expert committee looking into the matter.

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· Oct 05, 2018 · 12:32 pm

Chhattisgarh: Child on ventilator support dies in ambulance after cylinder runs out of oxygen

The five-year-old girl, diagnosed with severe pneumonia, was being shifted from a hospital in Bijapur to another in Bastar around 160 kilometres away.

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· Aug 28, 2018 · 01:40 pm

Gujarat hospital to issue notice to doctor after video shows a sweeper stitching a patient’s wound

Brijesh Solanki claimed the doctor threatened to complain against him if he refused to comply with her orders to suture the wound.

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· Aug 20, 2018 · 11:14 pm

Kolkata woman suffers multiple organ failure after hospital allegedly gives her wrong blood type

The patient’s family has filed a case of medical negligence against Columbia Asia Hospital.

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· Jun 13, 2018 · 05:00 pm

Max Hospital: Medical council clears doctors accused of negligence for declaring baby dead

The council said there were, however, procedural lapses at the Shalimar Bagh facility where a premature infant was wrongly declared dead last year.

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· May 09, 2018 · 10:41 am

Delhi: Doctor operates on the leg of a patient admitted to hospital with head injury

He has been transferred to another hospital and barred from conducting surgeries without supervision.

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· Apr 23, 2018 · 07:02 pm