New legal assistance booth opened at City Hospital
iamin, Berhampur, Friday, 24 July 2015 – 6:16pm IST | Ronalisa Parida In order to provide legal advice and help to the needy patients, the District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) in collaboration with the Berhampur City Hospital has opened a legal assistance booth at the City Hospital. This cell will run in the official hours […]
Non-compliance of biomedical waste: Now, People’s hospital under scanner
THE TIMES OF INDIA, Bhopal, TNN | Jul 25, 2015, 03.40 AM IST BHOPAL: Several loopholes and noncompliance of biomedical waste (BMW) rules were found at People’s Hospital in Bhanpur after National Green Tribunal (NGT) appointed committee on BMW conducted inspection on Friday. NGT had asked the committee to inspect compliance of bio-medical waste rules […]
Flouting norms: BMC serves notices to 15 pvt hospitals
THE INDIAN EXPRESS, Mumbai, Published:Aug 5, 2015, 1:04 The BMC notices have picked separate violations for prominent hospitals who now have to answer the civic body, The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has served show-cause notices to 15 private hospitals for flouting norms, amid allegations that infrastructure reserved for women and child care have been turned into multi-speciality […]
Licence of private hospital suspended
THE HINDU, New Delhi, May 10, 2015 05:34 IST The Delhi Government’s Health Department on Friday initiated action, including suspension of licence and imposition of hefty fine, against a private hospital in Rajouri Garden here for allegedly conducting illegal sex determination tests.
23 organs harvested in a day at Chennai hospital
Business Standard, IANS | Chennai May 6, 2015 Last Updated at 17:14 IST In a rare operation, the Chennai-based Apollo Hospitals has harvested 23 different organs from five brain-dead donors to give a new lease of life to needy patients, an official said on Wednesday.
Hospitals flouting norms of Karunya scheme warned
THE HINDU, Kochi, January 11, 2015 05:46 IST Stern action will be taken against those hospitals charging exorbitant amounts from patients for dialysis even after enrolling themselves in the Karunya scheme, Finance Minister K.M. Mani has said. Inaugurating the second State-level conference of the Fellowship of Organ Transplantees (FORT) in Kochi on Saturday, the Minister […]
Orange City Hospital all set to start skin bank soon
THE TIMES OF INDIA, Nagpur, TNN | Feb 2, 2015, 03.29AM IST NAGPUR: The Maharashtra government has not taken any cognisance of amendments carried out by the central government in 2011 to the Human Organ Transplant Act (HOTA) of 1994, which allow donation and banking of skin, bone, cartilage and other tissues. So, in the […]
95% of Agra hosps don’t follow fire safety norms
THE TIMES OF INDIA, Agra,TNN | Apr 16, 2015, 04.11PM IST Agra: It’s not just schools and colleges that have blatantly flouted fire safety norms in the city. Hospitals, residential and commercial buildings in the city have been found guilty as well as data gleaned from the fire department reveal that only 12 of nearly […]
Delhi government plans law to rein in private hospitals
THE TIMES OF INDIA,Delhi,TNN | Apr 3, 2015, 12.38AM IST NEW DELHI: The Delhi government aims to make private clinics and hospitals in the city accountable by implementing the Clinical Establishments Act, a Central law under which the maximum cost of medical procedures would be laid out and services standardized.The law, passed by Parliament in […]
Maternity homes turn into super-specialty hospitals, flout BMC norms
Dnaindia,Mumbai,Tuesday, 5 May 2015 – 5:05am IST Flouting all norms, hospitals reserved for women and children by theBrihanmumbai Municipal Corporation(BMC) have been misused over past ten years by private players under the name of ‘charity’. These private players are offering super-specialty services in contravention of the agreements signed with the BMC.In 2004, BMC had invited […]
