Medical Malpractice

Indian medical representatives are giving quacks cash and gifts to sell antibiotics

These quacks, in turn, are unwittingly speeding up the creation of superbugs by offering incomplete or unnecessary antibiotics treatments.

Madlen Davies, Rahul Meesaraganda and Ben Stockton, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
· Aug 21, 2019 · 01:30 pm
One year after 7-year-old girl’s death created a furore, Fortis hospital escapes the police net

A Haryana-appointed panel recommended that three doctors be held accountable for medical negligence and found forgery charges against hospital to be credible.

Vidya Krishnan
· Jan 11, 2019 · 09:00 am
Watchdog for patients’ rights: Health activists to launch website to monitor private hospitals

The online forum aims to fight rampant medical malpractices and corruption in the private sector.

Aarefa Johari
· Jan 26, 2018 · 02:30 pm

Bihar government slashes compensation for 702 women who have lost their wombs

The compensation mandated by the human rights commission for unnecessary hysterectomies has been reduced from Rs 2.5 lakhs to Rs 50,000.

Menaka Rao
· Dec 10, 2016 · 02:30 pm
Drug companies are buying doctors – for as little as a $16 meal

A new study in the US has found doctors who receive just one cheap meal from a drug company tend to prescribe a lot more of that company's products.

Ray Moynihan, The Conversation
· Jun 25, 2016 · 11:30 pm
In Karnataka, doctors perform unwarranted hysterectomies by telling women 'uterus kharab hua'

Fear and misinformation have allowed private hospitals to perform unwarranted hysterectomies on women in Karnataka’s Kalaburgi district.

Nayantara Narayanan
· Oct 01, 2015 · 04:30 pm

Video

See all

Eco India: How overpopulation of pigeons in Mumbai is causing a health crisis

Jul 13, 2025 · 08:55 am
Eco India, Episode 292: Why finding the middle ground in environmental protection is necessary

Jul 12, 2025 · 03:25 pm
‘Please take me to Assam’: What a distress call from Bangladesh revealed

Jul 09, 2025 · 06:00 pm
‘Need a civil disobedience movement against EC’: TMC MP Mahua Moitra on Bihar voter roll revision

Jul 08, 2025 · 07:45 pm
Eco India: What do we stand to lose as critical coastal ecosystems go unmapped?

Jul 06, 2025 · 08:55 am

Medical Malpractice

Indian medical representatives are giving quacks cash and gifts to sell antibiotics

These quacks, in turn, are unwittingly speeding up the creation of superbugs by offering incomplete or unnecessary antibiotics treatments.

Madlen Davies, Rahul Meesaraganda and Ben Stockton, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism · Aug 21, 2019 · 01:30 pm

One year after 7-year-old girl’s death created a furore, Fortis hospital escapes the police net

A Haryana-appointed panel recommended that three doctors be held accountable for medical negligence and found forgery charges against hospital to be credible.

Vidya Krishnan · Jan 11, 2019 · 09:00 am

Watchdog for patients’ rights: Health activists to launch website to monitor private hospitals

The online forum aims to fight rampant medical malpractices and corruption in the private sector.

Aarefa Johari · Jan 26, 2018 · 02:30 pm

Trending

Indian history for children: From 1200 to 1850, a brief history of the North Eastern states

14 hours ago

How Hindi emerged as the lingua franca of the ‘Hindi Heartland’ at the cost of other languages

Yesterday · 08:30 am

US tariffs will crush lives and livelihoods in Bangladesh, Cambodia garment industries

Yesterday · 07:30 pm

A new book examines whether Hindu nationalists supported the Zionist project to occupy Palestine

19 hours ago

First-Class Railway Curry, Quick Bengali Murgir Korma: Two monsoon recipes by chef Asma Khan

Yesterday · 01:30 pm

Bihar government slashes compensation for 702 women who have lost their wombs

The compensation mandated by the human rights commission for unnecessary hysterectomies has been reduced from Rs 2.5 lakhs to Rs 50,000.

Menaka Rao · Dec 10, 2016 · 02:30 pm

Drug companies are buying doctors – for as little as a $16 meal

A new study in the US has found doctors who receive just one cheap meal from a drug company tend to prescribe a lot more of that company's products.

Ray Moynihan, The Conversation · Jun 25, 2016 · 11:30 pm

In Karnataka, doctors perform unwarranted hysterectomies by telling women 'uterus kharab hua'

Fear and misinformation have allowed private hospitals to perform unwarranted hysterectomies on women in Karnataka’s Kalaburgi district.

Nayantara Narayanan · Oct 01, 2015 · 04:30 pm

Video

Eco India: How overpopulation of pigeons in Mumbai is causing a health crisis

Jul 13, 2025 · 08:55 am

Eco India, Episode 292: Why finding the middle ground in environmental protection is necessary

Jul 12, 2025 · 03:25 pm

‘Please take me to Assam’: What a distress call from Bangladesh revealed

Jul 09, 2025 · 06:00 pm

‘Need a civil disobedience movement against EC’: TMC MP Mahua Moitra on Bihar voter roll revision

Jul 08, 2025 · 07:45 pm

Eco India: What do we stand to lose as critical coastal ecosystems go unmapped?

Jul 06, 2025 · 08:55 am

Take Scroll With You

Madlen Davies, Rahul Meesaraganda and Ben Stockton, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
· Aug 21, 2019 · 01:30 pm

Vidya Krishnan
· Jan 11, 2019 · 09:00 am

Aarefa Johari
· Jan 26, 2018 · 02:30 pm

Menaka Rao
· Dec 10, 2016 · 02:30 pm

Ray Moynihan, The Conversation
· Jun 25, 2016 · 11:30 pm

Nayantara Narayanan
· Oct 01, 2015 · 04:30 pm