How the Centre’s ill-defined reservation criteria led to a massive doctors’ strike

Medical admissions have been paralysed by the government’s inability to offer a rationale for the income criteria used to define economically weaker sections

Umang Poddar

· Dec 30, 2021 · 06:30 am

Massive protest over delay in NEET counselling, doctors call for shutdown after Delhi Police action

Resident doctors alleged that they were brutally thrashed, dragged and detained by the police during their agitation.

Scroll Staff

· Dec 28, 2021 · 08:15 am

Bengaluru: Woman delivers stillborn in auto outside hospital after being turned away by 3 facilities

KC General Hospital Medical Superintendent Venkateshiah said doctors observed that the baby died days ago and not during labour.

Scroll Staff

· Jul 21, 2020 · 12:23 pm

The West’s myopic policies for eradication of typhoid are coming back to haunt it

Drug-resistant variants of the deadly disease are spreading across international borders. Should rich countries be surprised?

Claas Kirchelle and Samantha Vanderslott, The Conversation

· Oct 30, 2019 · 01:30 pm

Kerala: 12 donors to be tested after child with cancer contracts HIV

The nine-year-old’s parents had alleged that she contracted the virus during blood transfusions at the Regional Cancer Centre in Thiruvananthapuram.

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· Sep 18, 2017 · 04:24 pm

Kerala: Nine-year-old with cancer contracts HIV after blood transfusion, inquiry ordered

The hospital where she had her transfusions at claimed they had had no blood donors who were carrying the virus.

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· Sep 15, 2017 · 10:45 pm

Initial probe blames lack of oxygen for deaths of 49 children in a month at Farrukhabad hospital

Doctors at district government hospitals have gone on mass leave till September 7, alleging that the UP government was blaming innocent medical practitioners.

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· Sep 05, 2017 · 07:42 am

Jharkhand: 52 infants die in Jamshedpur hospital over 30 days

The superintendent has said malnutrition caused the deaths.

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· Aug 27, 2017 · 02:02 pm

US nursing homes flush away drugs worth millions because they don’t know how to redistribute them

In a country where healthcare is costly and thousands cannot afford medicines, this is a sad waste. But Iowa’s case shows there is hope.

Marshall Allen, ProPublica

· Apr 29, 2017 · 08:30 pm

Delhi: AIIMS nurses go on mass leave to demand better pay, ER services shut down

Only essential surgeries have been carried out on Friday at the premier hospital.

Scroll Staff

· Mar 17, 2017 · 12:50 pm

After Mumbai arrests, nervous doctors pull back from transplant surgeries

Public health experts ask if the medical community is overreacting to the arrests in the LH Hiranandani organ racket case.

Priyanka Vora

· Aug 13, 2016 · 02:30 pm

Already overworked, doctors in state hospitals are often beaten up – but no help is coming

Most attacks take place in emergency rooms and intensive care units, where tensions run high over critically-ill patients.

Nayantara Narayanan

· Jul 26, 2016 · 02:30 pm