Acting tough on the striking resident doctors, the Maharashtra government on Saturday terminated 3,148 medicos. "We have issued termination notices to 3,148 resident doctors," said Dr W B Tayade, director of Medical Education. The notices were issued following the failure of talks between the medicos and the health authorities. "We have also written to respective universities to initiate the process of cancellation of the registration of these doctors," Tayade said.
'We had written to the army chief urging his intervention into the matter, but no action has been taken in this regard. Hence we have decided to move the Supreme Court,' Karat said.
The decision will cover all government doctors whether serving under states or the central dispensation, the PM said.
In a document submitted by Jacob's lawyer to Mumbai police, she claimed that the "toolkit" was being prepared by Extinction Rebellion India volunteers for presenting the whole picture with a simple breakdown for an international audience.
The surgery will take place at the Raffles Hospital, where Iranian twins Ladan and Laleh Bijani died two weeks ago.
As his new film World Famous Lover gets ready for release, Subhash K Jha lists five roles that define Vijay Deverakonda's superstardom.
The list of 1,434 physicians was itself picked from a broader list of a guidebook, titled Top Doctors: New York Metro Area, published by Castle Connolly Medical, a research and information company. Every year, the company publishes a list of physicians whom it considers the top 10 per cent of doctors in the region -- comprising the city and its neighbourhoods.
In a major surgery, doctors at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute transplanted the heart of a 30-year-old IT professional, who was declared brain dead, on a 16-year-old boy, giving him a new lease of life.
In the present times of job uncertainties and layoffs, the lure of bureaucracy is clear.
Former England captain Kevin Pietersen took to Twitter to say "Greetings India. Everyone is united in the fight against coronavirus and that everyone should listen to their government's instructions and stay at home for a few days. This is time to be smart."
Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar died as a result of a litany of failures by hospital staff, a leaked draft of a probe report said, proving her family's claim that her death was avoidable.
An Indian doctor on deputation in Britain has been jailed for two-and-a-half years for manslaughter after wrongly diagnosing a patient who later died.
'Air Superiority that we held from the Second Day of Operation 'Cactus Lily' helped our Armed Forces to speed up operation 'Jackpot' to seize East Pakistan and force Gen Niazi and the Pakistani Army to lay down their arms on 16 December.'
Subsciption costs $100 for up to five devices for home users.
The genesis of Swaasth India was during the Pravasi Bharitya Diwas (PBD 2010) in Jaipur.
According to official figures released by the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) on Wednesday, over 4.77 lakh women availed pink tickets for free ride on the first day of the scheme on Tuesday.
The Delhi police on Wednesday asked the Medical Superintendent of Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital to appear before them after the post-mortem of constable Subhash Tomar contradicted his version that the cop did not suffer any injuries.
The condition of the 23-year-old gangrape victim was on Tuesday better than the previous day though she was still on ventilator, doctors attending on her said.
A trickle of NRI doctors returning home has been there all around the country for decades now.
Chicago-based cardiologist Dr Sushil Sheth, who surrendered his medical license, was sentenced to five years in federal prison for stealing about $13 million from Medicare and more than 30 other public and private health-care insurance programs over five years.
The head of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences forensic department on Thursday stuck to his controversial claim that pressure was brought on him to manipulate the post mortem report on Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar
An Indian-origin doctor has been found guilty of carrying out a revenge attack in the United States in which a top medical official was severely injured.
Confusion over the death of a person in the bomb attack on Uttar Pradesh minister Nand Gopal Gupta 'Nandi' in Allahabad cleared on Tuesday with police admitting that one person was killed in the incident even as Congress accused the administration of trying to hush up the death.
Pramod Mahajan's close aides, Sudhanshu Mittal and Harish Sharma, have also been summoned.\n
A prominent Indian American neurosurgeon, Dr Arvind Ahuja, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has been convicted for hiding $8 million (about Rs 44.8 crore) in secret offshore accounts in India, and is scheduled to be sentenced on January 13, 2013.
After Greta Thunberg shared the 'toolkit' on Twitter, climate activist Disha Ravi asked the Swedish environmental activist to delete her post fearing action under the stringent law Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act as her name was mentioned in the document, police alleged on Monday.
In this emerging trend, doctors are joining hands with venture capitalists, drug firms and medical equipment vendors to set up advanced medical care facilities at low costs.
Resident doctors in Maharashtra Sunday warned of taking their agitation nationwide as the strike by the medicos entered the seventh day.
UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) said it was "deeply concerned and shocked" by a Sunday Times report in which a British doctor alleged he had prescribed banned performance-enhancing drugs to 150 sportsmen including several Premier League footballers.
The crackdown in the corporate espionage case led to the arrest of another person on Monday.
The AMA warned that this could trigger a major workforce crisis in the country.\n
The strike called by the medical college teachers association in Kerala has crippled the functioning of the government medical colleges, with patients not receiving any kind of treatment, even in the outpatient department of the hospitals.In Thiruvananthapuram, a leading cardiologist who is a professor of the Government Medical College in the city has started private practice at his home, as the strike gives him ample time for private consultations throughout the day.
Dr Pranav Shetty, a prominent Indian-American doctor fighting the dreaded ebola disease in West Africa, was the lone representative of the community to be present in First Lady Michelle Obama's box during the State of the Union Address.
A 21-year-old stenographer with the CBI, in Navi Mumbai was today arrested for allegedly molesting a female doctor while she was asleep in a Mumbai-bound Express train, railway police said.
Ramnath, who now lives in the US, was convicted of the patient's murder and handed the suspended jail sentence at the Birmingham Brown Court for going against the wishes of three colleagues and failing to speak to a consultant anaesthetist at the hospital before injecting the drug into Leighton.
