Bengal Doctor Suspended

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's meeting with protesting doctors on Monday ended with a breakthrough, with the medics calling off their strike. While the doctors said the Chief Minister had "good intentions" and dubbed her a "guardian", Ms Banerjee accepted their demands, suggesting a 10-point plan to ensure security at the hospitals. The me...

A government doctor in West Bengal has been suspended by the state health department for a Facebook post in October in which he lamented his helplessness in dealing with a deluge of dengue patients at the hospital where he worked.

The West Bengal Health Department has suspended a doctor for alleging in Facebook posts that the state government is suppressing facts relating to the dengue menace in the state.

A nurse in Lalbag Hospital will be suspended for using acid for antiseptic on a pregnant woman in a hospital in Murshidabad. The incident which occurred on Tuesday, ensured the woman Shikha Bibi, who was going into labour, lost her baby boy, and suffered great injuries on her thighs. Earlier, Shikha Bibi and her husband - a daily wage labourer, sai...

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's meeting with protesting doctors on Monday ended with a breakthrough, with the medics calling off their strike. While the doctors said the Chief Minister had "good intentions" and dubbed her a "guardian", Ms Banerjee accepted their demands, suggesting a 10-point plan to ensure security at the hospitals. The me...

A government doctor in West Bengal has been suspended by the state health department for a Facebook post in October in which he lamented his helplessness in dealing with a deluge of dengue patients at the hospital where he worked.

The West Bengal Health Department has suspended a doctor for alleging in Facebook posts that the state government is suppressing facts relating to the dengue menace in the state.

A nurse in Lalbag Hospital will be suspended for using acid for antiseptic on a pregnant woman in a hospital in Murshidabad. The incident which occurred on Tuesday, ensured the woman Shikha Bibi, who was going into labour, lost her baby boy, and suffered great injuries on her thighs. Earlier, Shikha Bibi and her husband - a daily wage labourer, sai...