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New Delhi: Delhi High Court has warned that continued delays in implementing key reforms across govt-run hospitals could seriously affect healthcare services in the Capital and jeopardise the lives of citizens. The court flagged Delhi govt's failure to implement recommendations made by a court-appointed panel of medical experts and summoned the health secretary to explain the lapses. A special bench...

New Delhi: Delhi govt is planning to build resting rooms for attendants and caretakers in all major state-run hospitals to improve patient care. The initiative comes amid rising concern about overcrowding in hospital corridors, where attendants often wait for long hours without basic facilities.Most govt hospitals are overcrowded, especially during peak OPD and emergency hours. Families accompanying...

Mumbai may be one of the best addresses for sickly newborns or extremely premature babies who weigh around 1kg at birth. While 12 newborns aged one to three days were among the 24 who died in a 24-hour span in the state-run Nanded hospital last week, even the city's public hospitals - often poorly equipped as compared to private sector hospitals - boast of a survivor rate of 90%."In most civic body-run...

A detailed analysis of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY), the government’s flagship health insurance scheme, has shown that those most vulnerable — whether in terms of states, communities or gender — have not been able to use it as well as the relatively better off.For instance, though Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Schedules Tribes (STs) constitute about 28% of the population, their share...

NEW DELHI: To make bone marrow transplant affordable, the Union government has planned to set up centres at its three hospitals in Delhi. Till date, only AIIMS Delhi has a facility in the city and the treatment cost is exorbitant in private hospitals. "If all goes well, the centres are likely to start soon at Safdarjung, RML and Lady Hardinge hospitals," said a doctor, who recently attended a meeting at...

THANE: A Raigad woman, who was sent from one state government-run hospital to another because they didn't have the expertise to help with her complicated labour, recently delivered a stillborn boy in an ambulance en route to a third public hospital.The 30-year-old woman's 12-hour-long medical trauma on March 21 came to light when a local activist wrote, on her behalf, to health minister Tanaji Sawant...