Aiming to provide qualitative universal health care for the people of Odisha, the state government has expanded the range of free diagnostic services to 146 tests to the entire population of the state irrespective of income level in Government hospitals and Health Sub-centres.
Six people died on the spot including a child, a woman, and four men. Three people were rescued in critical condition and they were sent to the hospital.
Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has said in the Parliament that the treatment for cardiovascular patients is either free or highly subsidised in government hospitals across the country, besides under Ayushman Bharat - Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY).
Tamil Nadu Health Minister Ma Subramanian on Tuesday congratulated doctors at Omandurar Government Hospital in Chennai for conducting a rare surgery where a blood clot was successfully taken away by pinhole surgery in the brain.
Union Health Ministry has conducted a meeting of top health officials of big hospitals and experts and discussed cases of viral infections on the rise in the country, especially due to the H3N2 virus, an official said on Monday.
According to the LG office, the objective behind the move is to optimally utilize the vacant beds in government hospitals where critical but stable patients from AIIMS, which is reeling under an acute shortage of beds, could be referred for treatment.
Tamil Nadu Health and Family Welfare Minister Ma Subramanian inaugurated two 'pay ward' at a total cost of Rs 1.02 crores in the super speciality block and trauma care centre at the Rajaji Government Hospital in Madurai on Thursday.
Speaking to ANI on Thursday, the principal medical officer (PMO) of Dausa Government Hospital, Dr. Shivram Meena, confirmed that the ambulance driver, who was appointed by an NGO, has already been removed while a panel has been put together to probe the matter.
In a tragic incident in Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam, a couple carried the body of their 14-days-old child on a two-wheeler for 120 km after they were allegedly denied an ambulance facility by the KG government hospital.
The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) Ship Ankit undertook a medical evacuation of a foreign national from the Arabian Sea on Monday. The patient was safely brought to Porbandar and shifted to Government Hospital at Porbandar and then to Rajkot.