ITV Corrie star Sean Ward sleeps on mattress on floor at friends' houses. All bout his struggleSharing his plight on a social media platform, ITV Corrie star Sean Ward has revealed that he sleeps on a mattress on the floor of friends'...
18 Dec, 2023, 09.28 PM IST
26 COVID-19 patients die at GMCH in Goa; minister seeks HC probeGoa CM Pramod Sawant, who visited GMCH, said the gap between the "availability of medical oxygen and its supply to COVID-19 wards in the GM...
11 May, 2021, 04.20 PM IST
5 die in Chhattisgarh COVID-19 hospital fire; probe ordered"Five coronavirus patients died in the incident. One was charred to death and the others died due to suffocation," a police official said, ...
18 Apr, 2021, 04.34 PM IST
Embarrassment for BMC as Jaslok Hospital says it will treat non-COVID patients as wellBMC had on Wednesday issued a circular, in which it had said that the Jaslok Hospital will no longer admit non-COVID-19 patients. However, ...
16 Apr, 2021, 03.08 PM IST
To tackle new Covid wave, BMC tells ward officers to monitor beds in private hospitalOn Monday, the Mumbai municipal corporation issued 18 directives to its ward officers and private hospitals as part of its strategy to bett...
30 Mar, 2021, 06.59 AM IST
Over 15 lakh caught without masks in Mumbai since April 2020The BMC has been imposing a fine of Rs 200 for not wearing a face mask in public places. From April 1, 2020 to February 15 this year, the B...
17 Feb, 2021, 01.04 PM IST
Coronavirus can be transiently air-borne but masks can keep one safe, says CCMB studyThe scientists worked with hospitals -- three in Hyderabad and three in Chandigarh -- to find if the virus particles can be found in air sa...
05 Jan, 2021, 09.55 PM IST
Fire kills five Covid-19 patients in Rajkot Hospital33 Covid patients were being treated in Uday Shivanand Hospital in Rajkot. The fire brigade received its first call at about 12.20 am as th...
27 Nov, 2020, 01.01 PM IST
Separate wards, ICU beds: How suspected patients are treated at Covid hospitalsInitially, there were reports that dedicated facilities were allegedly not allowing suspected COVID-19 patients but later the government as...
29 Jul, 2020, 02.34 PM IST
Mumbai's COVID-19 case count crosses 88,000; 68 more deathsFor the first time since the coronavirus outbreak began, the average growth rate of cases in the city has dropped to 1.49 per cent, the civ...
09 Jul, 2020, 10.37 PM IST
TN government caps COVID-19 treatment charges in private hospitals at Rs 15,000 per day in ICUsIn private sector hospitals, the per day charges for treatment in ICUs shall not exceed Rs 15,000 and in general wards, for asymptomatic pe...
06 Jun, 2020, 01.33 PM IST
BMC to add 1,200 beds as clips show patients sharing cot, sitting on floorAnother video emerged on Saturday, purportedly from Sion Hospital, showing a bed being shared by two patients, some receiving oxygen suppor...
10 May, 2020, 08.31 AM IST
Guidelines issued for handling of waste generated during COVID-19 patient's treatmentThe apex pollution monitoring body said specific guidelines are required to be followed by all, including isolation wards, quarantine centr...
21 Apr, 2020, 10.00 AM IST
Karnataka to enact law to protect healthcare workers from attacksThe Karnataka cabinet decided on Monday to enact a new law to deal sternly with persons who come in the way of healthcare workers performin...
21 Apr, 2020, 08.02 AM IST
Mumbai: 50% of coronavirus patients found in four civic wardsNearly 50 per cent of the total 590 coronavirus patients found so far in Mumbai, which has emerged as one of the hotspots of coronavirus sp...
09 Apr, 2020, 10.25 AM IST
Hotels, resorts come in handy in India's fight against Covid-19State governments are using these facilities for conversion into isolation wards in worst-affected hotspots. The Madhya Pradesh government ...
31 Mar, 2020, 10.25 AM IST
Delhi government asks private hospitals not to admit coronavius patientsLast week, three major network hospitals — Fortis Healthcare, Apollo and Max Healthcare — had announced setting up of isolation wards and o...
31 Mar, 2020, 12.01 AM IST