NICU care can cost Rs 5,000-10,000 per day: Why parents should know about newborn coverage and its sub-limits in health insuranceParents buy maternity cover for delivery, but the bigger financial risk is complications after birth.
13 Apr, 2026, 06.30 AM IST
Smaller than a palm: How India’s tiniest infant battled to survive for 124 daysA newborn weighing just 350 grams, possibly the smallest infant ever to survive in India, battled for over four months in the NICU. The "na...
21 Nov, 2025, 02.59 PM IST
SeaLink, promoter plan to sell majority stake in Surya HospitalPrivate equity firm SeaLink Capital Partners and the Surya Children's Medicare promoter plan to sell their stakes in western India's larges...
17 Oct, 2024, 12.47 AM IST
Delhi hospital fire: How unchecked private nursing homes thrive amid high costs & poor infraThe high costs of medical care at private corporate hospitals in Delhi, combined with inadequate infrastructure at government facilities, h...
29 May, 2024, 03.55 PM IST
NCPCR chief blames authorities for fire at children's hospital in DelhiTwelve newborns were rescued from the facility but seven of them died. Five babies are undergoing treatment at another hospital.
27 May, 2024, 11.18 AM IST
Just 3 nurses to take care of 60 babies at Nanded government hospital: Congress leader Ashok ChavanOne warmer was used to treat three babies at a time and manpower at the Dr Shankarrao Chavan Government Medical College and Hospital's NICU...
10 Oct, 2023, 09.15 PM IST
Listen up, dads! Giving 'kangaroo care' to your newborn can reduce stress levelsThe skin-to-skin contact is often termed 'kangaroo care'.
02 Sep, 2022, 07.02 PM IST
NHRC notice to Rajasthan govt for infants' death in hospitalThe NHRC said it has taken a suo motu cognisance of a media report about death of two infants at Amrit Kaur Hospital run in Ajmer in Rajast...
23 Apr, 2022, 08.02 AM IST
Woman who gave birth on flight had no idea she was pregnantThe baby boy, Raymond Mounga, arrived early at just 29 weeks.
07 May, 2021, 11.01 AM IST
Fire: 3 infants died of burns, 7 suffocated, says Maharashtra ministerAccording to doctors, ten newborn babies, aged between a month and three months, died after fire broke out in the Special Newborn Care Unit...
09 Jan, 2021, 11.51 AM IST
Sachin Tendulkar donates medical equipments to Assam hospitalTendulkar, who is also the 'Goodwill ambassador of UNICEF', has donated equipments required in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) an...
13 Nov, 2020, 05.54 PM IST
Over 100 infants die in two Jodhpur hospitals: ReportOver 100 infants died in two government hospitals in Jodhpur in December last year, a report has found amid growing outrage over infant dea...
05 Jan, 2020, 02.56 PM IST
Huge gap in private, government hospital charges under Ayushman: StudyOver 18,550 hospitals are empanelled under the govt’s flagship health insurance scheme. Of this, 54% are private hospitals and the rest are...
21 Oct, 2019, 10.34 AM IST
30 infants died in 33 days in UP's Farrukhabad: A ground reportWas it the lack of oxygen or not enough doctors that killed 30 infants in the NICU of Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital between July 20 and August...
10 Sep, 2017, 12.27 AM IST
This startup combines IoT, big data & machine learning for better premature infant careiNICU, short for Integrated Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, was founded in June 2016 by Singh and pediatrician Gautam Yadav after Singh lost ...
17 Feb, 2017, 10.33 AM IST
This 'ATM' in Puducherry offers mother's milkThe bank, named 'Amudham Thaippal Maiyam' (ATM), which will also offer breastfeeding counselling to mothers, was inaugurated last Wednesday.
19 Jul, 2016, 03.15 PM IST
13 infants die at Chhattisgarh Institute of Medical SciencesThe doctors at the hospital, however, said that the infants died due to various reasons and most of them were born premature as well as und...
08 Dec, 2014, 05.18 PM IST