Mumbai faces shortage of medical staff, hospital beds as coronavirus cases rise to 30,359; city records one-fifth of infections in India
• 5 years agoMumbai’s municipal authority said it had ordered public officials to take control of at least 100 private hospital beds in all 24 zones in the city of almost 20 million people to make more beds available for coronavirus patients.
Mumbai's civic hospitals begin use of Tocilizumab in severe coronavirus cases; 30 of 40 patients show drastic improvement
• 5 years agoMultiple hospitals which come under the BMC have started using a new drug to treat patients who have been severely affected due to COVID-19
Mumbai municipal commissioner issues orders to ensure social distancing, help hospitals 'decongest' to prepare for emergencies
• 5 years agoMumbai Municipal Commissioner Pravin Pardeshi on late Friday evening issued several orders to ensure social distancing to contain coronavirus as well as "decongest" hospitals to prepare for any contingency arising out of the epidemic.
After Rajasthan, 219 infant deaths in December at two Gujarat civil hospitals; CM Vijay Rupani walks away when asked about it
Fp Staff • 5 years agoAs the Rajasthan government faces heat for the unprecedented number of infant deaths recorded from Kota's KJ Lone Hospital, the numbers from two of Gujarat’s civil hospitals, Rajkot and Ahmedabad, are more even more worrying, with 219 infant deaths in December alone
Rajasthan's Jodhpur also records more than 100 infant deaths in Dec: 146 casualties from two state-run hospitals in city
• 5 years agoOver 100 infants died in two government hospitals in Jodhpur in December last year, a report has found amid growing outrage over infant deaths in a Kota hospital
Kota infant deaths: Green carpet rolled out to welcome Rajasthan health minister at hospital where over 100 children died, removed later
• 5 years agoThe state-run hospital in Kota, where more than 100 children died in December, rolled out a 'green carpet' on Friday to welcome Rajasthan Health Minister Raghu Sharma
Kota infant deaths a grim reminder of 2018 Gorakhpur tragedy; staff, equipment shortage behind poor healthcare system in Rajasthan and UP
Fp Staff • 5 years agoWith at least nine infants dying on 30 and 31 December, the number of deaths at Kota’s JK Lon Hospital stood at 100 for the month of December 2019. The baby’s demise occurred on the same day on which UNICEF said India saw 67,000 births, the highest globally
Two-month-old boy succumbs to burns suffered in KEM Hospital fire: Prince Rajbhar was being treated for heart ailment in Mumbai
• 5 years agoPrince Rajbhar sustained serious burn injuries in the fire at the KEM Hospital on 6 November, after which, his left arm was amputated
Malad wall collapse: Toll rises to 29 after two succumb to injuries; treatment of 69 wounded still underway
• 6 years agoA total of 121 people were injured after a wall collapsed in Malad, a suburb of Mumbai. 29 of these have been declared dead and 23 have been discharged.
BMC sets up committee to probe shortage of medicines in civic hospitals, will submit report within two weeks
• 6 years agoAmid reports of shortage of medicines in civic hospitals and dispensaries, the health department of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has set up a committee to inquire into it.