Mounting medical bills, travel costs, and other expenses have left a 29-year-old farmer in West Bengal’s Malda, the father of a three-year-old who was diagnosed with a rare case of avian influenza A, struggling to make ends meet even after his child was discharged from hospital last month. The three-year-old child’s case was only the …
In a fresh row over the Sandeshkhali incident, the Trinamool Congress on Saturday released a purported video featuring a BJP leader who claimed that women had filed sexual harassment complaints at the behest of Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari. While Adhikari denied the allegations and called the video a “TMC conspiracy”, …
For the last two months, hospitals in the city have been witnessing five to six cases of complications due to mumps – a far cry from earlier when negligible cases were reported every year. According to experts, a drop in vaccination rate due to the Covid pandemic could be a major reason for the spike. …
A plea to not “encounter” the brother of the man who killed his two sons is the only request Vinod Kumar feels he can make. On Wednesday, Kumar was trying to come to terms with the violence that tore through his family. “Police must not ‘encounter’ the second person who is absconding. He must be …
For the past six months, some Delhi hospitals and the Integrated Counselling and Testing Centre (ICTC) have been facing a shortage of HIV confirmation test kits. This has raised alarm bells among those most vulnerable to contracting the infection. Sources said the hospitals include state government-run Deep Chand Bandhu and GTB, and the MCD-run Hindu …