Doctors
- India
Doctors, WHO, sportspersons endorse PM Modi’s call to fight obesity in India
New Delhi: Amid rising levels of obesity — a precursor to a host of diseases including diabetes, hypertension, and cancers — Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent clarion call to fight obesity and…
- Kolkata
Kolkata court verdict on RG Kar murder case sparks public appeals for justice
Kolkata: With just a few hours left for a special court in Kolkata to deliver its verdict on the rape and murder of a woman doctor of R.G. Kar Medical College and…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Doctors perform ‘keyhole surgery’ to save KSA’s newborn
Hyderabad: A team of specialists in Hyderabad successfully performed a rare, minimally invasive keyhole surgery to save a newborn with a severe birth defect. The baby was born without a diaphragm, a…
- Hyderabad
TGMC notice to hospital in Hyderabad for promoting ‘fake’ doctors
Hyderabad: The Telangana Medical Council (TGMC) has issued a notice to Rush Care Hospital, located in LB Nagar, Hyderabad following allegations that the hospital promoted fake doctors. The notice issued by TGMC…
- India
RG Kar case: Police deny permission for extension of protest by doctors
Kolkata: Kolkata Police have denied permission to a doctors’ association seeking an extension of their protest in the R.G. Kar rape and murder case. The protest has been going on to condemn…
- India
Medical seats should not go to waste when country faces doctor shortage: SC
New Delhi: Precious medical seats should not go in waste when the country was facing acute shortage of doctors, the Supreme Court on Friday said and directed the authorities to hold fresh…
- India
WB Doctors plan sit-in in kolkata over bail granted in RG Kar case
Kolkata: The West Bengal Joint Platform of Doctors (WBJPD) was planning to begin a sit-in demonstration in the heart of Kolkata from Tuesday over the CBI investigation into the RG Kar hospital…
- News
Act fast, save lives: Experts urge public awareness on strokes, their consequences
Hyderabad: On World Stroke Day, October 29, experts in neurology made an urgent appeal to create public awareness about strokes. The strokes are life-threatening, specialists in the field said. Speaking at a…
- Hyderabad
Amer Ali Khan emphasizes legal awareness for future doctors at award ceremony
Hyderabad: In a grand award ceremony organized by The Siasat Daily and MS Educational Academy, over 810 Muslim students who secured admission to MBBS programs through NEET 2024 were recognized for their…
- India
RG Kar issue: Junior doctors fast-unto-death enters 12th day
Kolkata: Agitating junior doctors continued their fast-unto-death for the 12th consecutive day on Wednesday demanding justice for the deceased woman colleague of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital and workplace security. Sourav…
- Kolkata
RG Kar protest: Another Doctor on hunger strike falls unconscious, hospitalised
Kolkata: Calcutta Medical College and Hospital’s woman junior doctor Tanaya Panja, who was on a fast-unto-death agitation, along with other protesting junior doctors, since October 5 against the ghastly rape and murder…
- India
LF asks Bengal CM to hold immediate meeting with agitating junior doctors
Kolkata: The Left Front on Monday demanded that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee “call the agitating junior doctors for a meeting immediately to resolve their demands.” In an open letter to…
- Kolkata
Bengal Chief Secy, Doctors’ meeting on RG Kar case concludes without resolution
Kolkata: The meeting between representatives of 12 doctors’ associations and West Bengal Chief Secretary Manoj Pant on Monday regarding the impasse over demands raised in the aftermath of the ghastly rape and…
- India
RG Kar: Junior doctors’ hunger strike enters 9th day
Kolkata: The hunger strike by junior doctors of West Bengal to press for their demands following the RG Kar hospital incident entered the ninth day on Sunday, even as their health parameters…
- News
IMA chief praises agitating doctors, says touched by their determination
Kolkata: Representatives of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), led by national president RV Asokan, met the agitating junior doctors who have been on an indefinite hunger strike demanding justice for their murdered…
