Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is recuperating after a coronary by-pass surgery at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, would be discharged on Saturday 'if everything goes right', a senior doctor attending on him said on Friday.Though there were reports suggesting that the 76-year-old leader may be discharged even earlier, doctors felt he needed some more observation, hospital sources said.
Four heart specialists from the Asian Heart Institute, Mumbai, are leading a team of doctors operating upon Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences on Saturday.The 11-member team from AHI, led by Ramakant Panda, is heading the team of doctors who are performing the bypass graft surgery on 76-year-old Dr Singh.Helping them would be doctors and technical staff drawn from different departments of AIIMS.
A six-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in a public toilet in Badarpur in Delhi on Saturday. "When the girl was brought to the hospital, we noticed that there were marks on her neck. It appears that someone tried to slash her throat with a blade. There were injuries on her private parts too," said a doctor.
Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan and his daughter Shweta Nanda on Sunday visited Rajya Sabha member of Parliament Amar Singh at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences where he is undergoing treatment for urinary tract infection and wished him speedy recovery.
Taking no chances, the Delhi police threw a massive security ring in almost all the major hospitals where the victims of Wednesday's high intensity blast outside the high court were rushed in.
Justice Gita Mittal asked AIIMS director P Venugopal and Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss to file their replies by October 31 on the contempt petition of one Dr Manoj Kumar.
Some of his well-known disciples include internationally-acclaimed Sonal Mansingh, Madhavi Mudgal, Radha Reddy and Yamini Krishnamurty, besides his daughter Kabita Dwibedi.
Several activities like fly-pasts, flashing warship lights and other displays by the Indian army bands were included in Sunday's spectacular show across the country.
Delhi gang rape accused Ram Singh died due to hanging, police sources said on Tuesday quoting the initial post-mortem report.
A first look on the heatlh minister Dr A Ramadoss examaning a patient.
A series of hoax bomb threats and an email threatening to carry out attacks in New Delhi had triggered massive search operations at India Gate, Red Fort, Akshardham Temple and Gurdwara Sis Ganj over the weekend.
Shah is also believed to have directed the police commissioner to take all possible steps to ensure peace at JNU.
Adivasi teacher and alleged Naxal sympathiser Soni Sori was admitted to Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences on Thursday afternoon. AIIMS had refused to admit Soni Sori on Tuesday, in spite of directions to do so by the Supreme Court.
Going is not easy for delivery boys, microfinance agents and cab drivers.
Delhi is witnessing a spurt in dengue cases, with 327 persons reported to be suffering from the disease till September 24 this year, nine of which have proved fatal.
A bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan sought the reply as both AIIMS and Venugopal filed their appeals against the High Court order.
The SLP filed by AIIMS assailed the judgement on the ground that the High Court had committed a grave error by declaring that there was no upper age limit for the director.
The woman was gangraped a fortnight ago, following which she was admitted to the AMU's Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital. The accused had also tried to strangulate her to death as she resisted their attempt and in the process, she had also ended up biting her tongue and suffering a severe cut on it.
National level athlete Arunima Sinha, who lost her leg after allegedly being pushed off a train, has been cured of infection in her amputated leg, doctors at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, where she is undergoing treatment, said.
Eighty-four year-old Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi "successfully" underwent a minimal invasive surgery for back pain on Wednesday and all his parameters are "absolutely normal."
The condition of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who is undergoing treatment at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, is improving and his dependence on ventilator support has reduced, doctors attending on him said on Wednesday.
Adding another issue to his agenda, Anna Hazare on Monday rose in support of a movement to save the Ganga by visiting activist G D Aggarwal who was flown to New Delhi for treatment after his health deteriorated during a hunger strike in Varanasi to save the river.
A probe by the Government Railway Police has found loopholes in the version given by athlete Arunima Sinha, who lost her leg after being thrown out of a train by robbers in Bareilly.Dismissing the investigations, the 23-year-old national level football and volleyball player said she was being "mentally harassed" by the police. "The investigations point out that Arunima was disturbed and she either attempted suicide or met with an accident," said an official.
A host of leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the Bharatiya Janata Party patriarch at the hospital.
"Anil Kumar (22) had failed in the first year exams as well as internal examinations. He had also low attendance and was not promoted to the senior classes. Also, he had problems in following lectures in English. He had kept himself locked inside his room throughout Sunday," Chhaya Sharma, Deputy Commissioner of Police (South), said.
Two-year-old Falak, who has been battling for life at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, has shown signs of improvement and taken off ventilator on Friday.
With this, a total of four persons have been taken into custody in this case, which includes the teenager's father Jitender Gupta on charges of abandoning her
A two-year-old girl abandoned in a hospital with critical injuries is struggling for her life though doctors said her condition has "slightly improved" on a day when two women approached the hospital claiming the baby is their relative.
The Delhi high court on Tuesday continued its stay on the dismissal of All India Institute of Medical Sciences director P Venugopal.
The protesting doctors displayed placards that read "Ramadoss Get Well Soon" and held bouquets of red roses.
The worst affected areas from dengue in Delhi are central zone, Shahdara (in the north) and Najafgarh, which have reported 115, 79 and 72 cases respectively.
Security and strategic analyst K Subrahmanyam died in New Delhi on Wednesday after a brief illness.
There was no significant improvement in the condition of Marxist veteran Jyoti Basu, battling pneumonia at a Kolkata hospital for the eighth day on Friday, with his line of treatment being endorsed by specialists of All India Institute of Medical Sciences.
NRI docs have found that both regular and diet colas can increase the risk of heart disease.
Earlier in August, the Centre was directed by the Delhi High Court to file a reply on a public interest litigation challenging Venugopal's appointment as Director.
Rajya Sabha member of Parliament Amar Singh, facing prosecution for his alleged role in the 2008 cash-for-vote scam, on Tuesday claimed he has "full information" about the episode but refused to comment as case is sub-judice.
A number of Indian medical experts on Monday supported calls from an eminent British Indian cardiologist for a full safety review into the use of Oxford/AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine, administered in India as Covishield, over feared serious side effects such as heart attack and stroke.
Indian hockey goalkeeper Baljit Singh's condition remains unchanged even as doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences put his injured right eye under numerous tests to ascertain the extent of damage.
In layman's terms, "Think of a road. If you are going on a road and there is a big traffic jam, you take the car from a different route and you join back later on the main road. When you have a blockage in your artery, we take another artery from a different place and we connect it to the original artery, below the blockage. Hence, the blockage gets bypassed, says Dr Aashish Contractor, Head of Department, preventive cardiology & rehabilitation, Asian Heart Institute.
The family of 16-year-old twins Saba and Farah Shakeel is not willing to take them to the New Delhi-based All India Institute of Medical Sciences for examination.
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