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 […]
CMCH presses for Rs. 5 crore-cath lab
THE HINDU, Coimbatore, May 6, 2015 05:35 IST To perform procedures such as implanting stents in the heart free of cost The Coimbatore Medical College Hospital has urged the Public Health Department to sanction funds for constructing a catheterization laboratory or cath lab. The infrastructure for accommodating this laboratory has been created in the centenary […]
Hospital to Use Internal e-mail System to Transfer Laboratory Reports Faster
THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS, Tamilnadu, 21st April 2015 06:05 AM COIMBATORE: To reduce delays, CMCH will stop carrying lab reports manually from the college campus on Avinashi Road to the hospital near the railway station and send the reports by e-mail, the CMCH council decided on Monday.Thousands of patients approach the pathology, microbiology and biochemistry […]
Hospitals flout pollution norms in Bhubaneswar
THE TIMES OF INDIA, Odisha, TNN | Nov 15, 2014, 09.46AM IST BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) on Friday revealed that 18 hundred-bed hospitals in the city had not set up mandatory effluent treatment plants (ETP) or sewerage treatment plants (STP). In March, the pollution control board had made it mandatory for […]
3 X-ray facilities in Mumbai, 2 in Navi Mumbai sealed for violations
THE TIMES OF INDIA, Mumbai,TNN | Apr 17, 2015, 11.23PM IST MUMBAI: Three X-ray facilities from the city and two from Navi Mumbai were sealed by the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) on Friday for functioning without registration and violating other minor safety norms. Two other centres—Sion hospital and Dr VT Shah Diagnostic Centre and […]
Private Hospitals had Free Run as Government Turned Blind Eye
THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS, Odisha, 01st April 2015 06:00 AM BHUBANESWAR:Private hospitals have had a free run in Odisha, blatantly flouting all rules and norms and misusing land availed at concessional rates as the Government turned a blind eye to their functioning, the CAG report has revealed.The situation has come to such a point that […]
Hospitals, infertility centres in Mumbai, Pune face action for flouting norms
PHARMABIZ, Mumbai, Wednesday, March 18, 2015, 08:00 Hrs [IST] National Inspection and Monitoring Committee (NIMC), constituted under the Union ministry of health and family welfare in its recent surprise inspections at genetic counseling centres and infertility centres in Mumbai and Pune found rampant violation of Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, […]
Pile-up fears for hospital waste as plant licence set to expire
THE INDIAN EXPRESS, New Delhi, May 7, 2015 3:22 am License of capital’s oldest treatment place, which caters to about 1,600 hospitals, expires on May 18. In two weeks, the contract of the capital’s oldest biomedical waste treatment plant, which caters to around 1,600 hospitals, will expire. Together, these hospitals produce six-seven tonnes of waste […]
Guntur pvt. hospitals comply with RTI norms
THE HINDU, Vijayawada,April 18, 2015 05:42 IST An initiative taken up by the members of People’s Awareness Association through State Information Commissioner M. Vijaya Nirmala forced private hospitals in Prakasam district to comply with the prescribed norms and ensure better services to patients.Out of 266 hospitals in the district, 66 have put up tariff boards […]
27 Dhantoli hospitals flouted norms: NMC
The Times of India,Nagpur,(TNN | Apr 25, 2015, 03.43AM IST) NAGPUR: The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) on Friday informed the Nagpur bench of Bombay high court that 27 hospitals in Dhantoli have brazenly flouted norms that included gobbling of parking space, unauthorized constructions and violation of FSI and sanctioned plans violation. A division bench comprising […]
