Doctors
- India
Talks between striking doctors, Rajasthan govt fail; protest to continue
Jaipur: Talks between striking doctors and the Rajasthan government over the protest against the Right to Health Bill remained inconclusive on Monday. The six-member delegation of doctors led by secretary of Private…
- India
13 days on, no respite from Rajasthan doctors’ strike over Right to Health Bill
Jaipur: It’s the 13th day in Rajasthan since the doctors along with medical staff went on a strike across the state against the Right to Health Bill passed by the Assembly recently.…
- India
Lobby associated with RSS inciting protesting doctors in Rajasthan: CM
Kota: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Saturday alleged that a “lobby” associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) was inciting and misguiding private doctors agitating against the Right to Health Bill…
- India
Medical services hit in Rajasthan as doctors protest Right to Health Bill
Jaipur: Medical services were affected in parts of Rajasthan on Wednesday after government doctors and faculty members in medical colleges went on a one-day strike in solidarity with private doctors agitating against the…
- India
Rajasthan: Govt medicos to go on strike on Wednesday in solidarity with private doctors
Jaipur: Medical services in Rajasthan are likely to be seriously affected on Wednesday with government doctors and faculty members at medical colleges announcing a one-day mass leave in solidarity with private doctors agitating against the…
- Telangana
‘Illegal abortions’: Doctors body slams Telangana health min for inaction on RMPs
Hyderabad: The Healthcare Reforms Doctors Association (HRDA) on Thursday slammed Telangana health minister T Harish Rao for ‘restricting’ authorities from taking action against Rural Medical Practitioners (RMP) in the state. The Doctors’…
- India
Shinde visits govt hospital, asks officials to provide better facilities to doctors
Thane: Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Saturday expressed displeasure about the conditions in which doctors at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Civic Hospital (CSMH) in Kalwa area here work. Speaking after a…
- India
Doctors’ strike hit over one lakh patients in Jharkhand
Ranchi: As per estimates, about one lakh people could not be treated in Jharkhand on Wednesday as around 14,000 government and private doctors went on a strike demanding security. Although emergency services…
- Opinions
Doctor’s dilemma: To practice or write
Hyderabad: The general perception about doctors is that their writing skills are confined to just scrawling illegible prescriptions. That’s true to a large part. However, the more enthusiastic among them indulge in…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Doctors remove enlarged kidney carrying 20 litres of waste
Hyderabad: Doctors at the Asian Institute of Nephrology & Urology (AINU) here have successfully removed a ‘gigantic kidney’ carrying 20 liters of fluid waste or urine in it. The size of this…
- Chennai
Don’t recruit doctors, nurses on contract basis, demands TN Doctors Association
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu Doctors Association for Social Equality (DASE) has urged the state government not to recruit doctors on a contract basis. Association general secretary Dr. G.S. Raveendranath in a statement…
- Telangana
HRDA seeks action against practice of unregistered doctors
Hyderabad: The Healthcare Reform Doctors Association (HRDA) has requested the Telangana State Medical Council (TSMC) to take prompt action against unregistered medical practitioners and quacks (unqualified persons) who use and prescribe scheduled…
- India
Doctors’ body seeks postponement of NEET PG-2023 by two-three months
New Delhi: The United Doctors Front Association has written to Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya seeking postponement of the NEET PG-2023 examination, scheduled on March 5, by two-three months. The doctors’ body…