Sumitra Debroy

Principal Correspondent, TOI

Sumitra Deb Roy is a health journalist with more than 17 years of experience across India’s leading newspapers. She is currently a senior assistant editor with the Times of India, where she has exten ...

Sumitra Deb Roy is a health journalist with more than 17 years of experience across India’s leading newspapers. She is currently a senior assistant editor with the Times of India, where she has extensively covered the Covid-19 pandemic and highlighted the unprecedented challenges faced by the health systems in Mumbai and Maharashtra. She recently co-authored a book titled “Mumbai Fights Back” that chronicles the city’s battle with Covid-19. She holds a postgraduate degree in journalism from the Asian College of Journalism in Chennai and a bachelor’s in political science from Calcutta University.

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Stories by the author

• 25 heat stroke deaths in Maharashtra, most in 6 years

  
  02 May 2022 02:12 PM IST
• Mumbai: Back-breaking pain in many recovering from Omicron

  
  10 Jan 2022 03:52 PM IST
• Health insurers see huge surge in non-Covid claims

  
  25 Oct 2021 10:02 AM IST
• Covid-19: Three months on, no unusual spike in Delta+ pockets in Maharashtra

  
  16 Jul 2021 09:36 PM IST
• BMC’s plan for third COVID-19 wave: Use jumbo units, don’t disrupt non-Covid operations

  
  12 Jul 2021 07:58 PM IST
• Delta+ has been lurking in Maharashtra for over 2 months now

  
  23 Jun 2021 03:56 PM IST
• Covid clots now causing intestinal gangrene

  
  03 Jun 2021 10:10 AM IST
• Doctors see rise in post-Covid stroke & heart attack cases

  
  31 May 2021 11:32 AM IST
• Maharashtra plans for third wave with 3-fold addition to paediatric beds

  
  24 May 2021 08:20 PM IST
• Flu shots to kids before monsoon will curb Covid cases: Maharashtra panel

  
  24 May 2021 10:59 AM IST
• Don’t fret if second dose delayed, no need to restart vaccine schedule, say experts

  
  12 May 2021 10:27 AM IST
• Mumbai: April deaths raise an alarm, trend may persist for a while

  
  01 May 2021 11:03 AM IST
• 60% of Indian variant samples tested in labs found in Maharshtra

  
  24 Apr 2021 10:08 AM IST
• Indian variant found in 50% samples sent for genome probe from Maharashtra

  
  18 Apr 2021 10:31 AM IST
• Lung damage shows coronavirus hasn’t lost sting: Doctors

  
  23 Mar 2021 10:13 AM IST
• Mumbai's doctors see new COVID-19 symptom in the form of gastrointestinal obstructions

  
  13 Mar 2021 12:15 PM IST
• COVID-19: Eight of India’s 10 worst-hit districts in Maharashtra, Centre ‘very worried’

  
  12 Mar 2021 10:05 AM IST
• Mumbai guardian minister hints at partial lockdown soon

  
  08 Mar 2021 01:06 PM IST
• Covid surge spreads to 28 of Maharashtra's 36 districts

  
  27 Feb 2021 11:19 AM IST
• As vaccination drive hits Co-WIN bump, experts suggest a ‘hybrid’ solution

  
  24 Feb 2021 10:36 AM IST
• Coronavirus: Mumbai has more deaths but fewer cases than Bengaluru and Delhi

  
  24 Oct 2020 05:28 PM IST
• BMC to add 1,200 beds as clips show patients sharing cot, sitting on floor

  
  10 May 2020 08:30 AM IST
• Mumbai: Wait for COVID-19 hospital bed now 3 days in some wards

  
  06 May 2020 11:59 AM IST
• Maharashtra plans clinical trials of TB vaccine BCG to treat Covid-19

  
  30 Apr 2020 10:45 AM IST
• PPE pecking order leaves nurses, ward boys at risk

  
  23 Apr 2020 10:17 AM IST
• Covid-19: False negative reports now pose a big challenge

  
  10 Apr 2020 11:03 AM IST
• 50% of Maharashtra's Covid-19 patients aged 31-50; 66% of cases imported

  
  27 Mar 2020 12:08 PM IST
• India-wide Corona infections touch 100, Maharashtra has most cases 31

  
  15 Mar 2020 07:29 AM IST
• Doctors say Lata Mangeshkar ‘critical and on ventilator’, her family maintains she's stable

  
  12 Nov 2019 09:28 AM IST
• ‘No blood from gays’: Male donors to be asked about sex life

  
  26 Sep 2018 11:03 AM IST
• 61% stents used last year were made in India

  
  14 Feb 2018 10:47 AM IST
• Maharashtra: Medical PG aspirants face bond hurdle

  
  20 Oct 2017 10:30 AM IST
• Rs 50 lakh: What H1N1 costs some patients

  
  28 Aug 2017 09:27 AM IST
• 6 lakh litres of blood wasted in five years due to lack of coordination between blood banks and hospitals

  
  24 Apr 2017 08:30 AM IST
• Bill awaiting House nod will end Karan Johar-like rent-a-womb

  
  06 Mar 2017 10:56 AM IST
• 14 more medical devices may see price regulation

  
  21 Feb 2017 11:14 AM IST
• New stents disappear from hospitals for 're-labelling'

  
  17 Feb 2017 12:57 PM IST
• Aircraft carrying organs to now get top priority

  
  12 Dec 2016 11:39 AM IST
• Rs 2,000 crore drug haul leads to bad blood in FDA

  
  06 Oct 2016 10:50 AM IST
• As the number of paternity tests rise, labs double DNA testing charges

  
  24 May 2016 12:34 PM IST
• Pratyusha Banerjee was pregnant, may have had abortion days before death

  
  19 Apr 2016 10:25 AM IST
• Neither took medicine nor was fed drugs: Indrani Mukerjea to police

  
  06 Oct 2015 10:33 AM IST
• Private labs earn crores from H1N1 hysteria in Mumbai

  
  12 Sep 2015 10:50 AM IST
• Blood banks to now issue blood only on MBBS doctors' prescription

  
  22 Aug 2015 11:16 AM IST
• Alcohol to fight alcohol: Doctors use whisky therapy

  
  20 Jun 2015 09:13 AM IST
• Indians drinking alcohol up 55% in 20 years

  
  17 May 2015 10:36 AM IST
• Over 60% of Mumbai H1N1 victims had diabetes or high BP

  
  06 Apr 2015 01:21 PM IST
• 20,000 ride Mumbai's monorail on Day 1

  
  03 Feb 2014 08:47 AM IST