Defective wiring could have caused S. Korea hospital fire

THE HINDU | SEOUL, JANUARY 28, 2018 22:41 IST Preliminary inspection suggests glitches in first-floor ceiling Defective wiring is suspected to have caused the deadly South Korean hospital fire that killed dozens and injured more than 150, police said, as public anger swelled over the country’s worst fire disaster in a decade. The huge blaze that erupted at the […]

Mumbai Man Gets Sucked Into MRI Machine At Hospital, Killed

Outlook India | 28 JANUARY 2018|Updated at 2:15 PM|NATIONAL Maru’s brother-in-law, Harish Solanki, told ANI that his mother was admitted in the hospital and the deceased went to visit her. The three accused in the death of a man at Nair Hospital here have been arrested. The three were detained earlier this morning. 32-year-old Rajesh Maru lost his […]

Govt. hikes charges for registration of births, deaths

THE HINDU | Tamil nadu | Chennai, January 27, 2018 23:48 IST Presently, the Corporation is offering several services free of charge A Government Order amending the Tamil Nadu Registration of Births and Deaths Rules, 2000 has led to a sudden increase in charges for services related to birth and death registration. City residents, who had been […]

Striking nurses cry for govt intervention

THE HINDU | Kerala | Alappuzha |JANUARY 23, 2018 19:20 IST Nurses have been staging indefinite strike and dharna in front of KVM Multi Specialty Hospital in Cherthala for the past 156 days.

Max hospital infants death: Medical Council refers case to disciplinary panel

The Indian Express | New Delhi | Published: Jan 24, 2018 2:21 am The hospital had come under scanner after it handed twins — one of them stillborn — to the parents in polythene packets, declaring that both were dead. On the way to the crematorium, the family found that one of them was alive. The child […]