Bihar Government Hospitals

Ten students of a government engineering college in Bihar's Banka district had to be taken to a hospital last week after a dead snake was allegedly found in their mess food.

The Bihar state health department has issued notices to over 60 government doctors across the state for being on unauthorised leave for at least a year or more, officials said on Thursday.

A day after a Bihar couple alleged that a government hospital demanded a bribe to hand over their son's body to them, State Health Minister Mangal Pandey on Thursday ordered a detailed inquiry into the incident.

An elderly couple is out on the streets of Bihar's Samastipur seeking money to "get their son's body released from a government hospital". A hospital employee allegedly asked the couple for Rs 50,000 to release the body of their son.

Black Fungus cases spiking in Bihar, the state government has not sent supplies of the anti-fungal injection for over 300 patients admitted in different hospitals of Patna for two straight days.

A key aide of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday clashed with senior Congress leader P Chidambaran after the latter expressed outrage, on twitter over a media report depicting shabby condition of a leading government hospital in the state.

The Indian Army has mobilised two field hospitals from the northeast to Patna to assist the Bihar government in fighting the escalating cases of COVID-19 in the state, military officials said on Thursday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's office today announced the inauguration of two 500-bed makeshift COVID-19 hospitals in Bihar saying that these facilities, built with funds from the PM-CARES Fund Trust, would go a long way in helping the state tide over the coronavirus pandemic.

The centre has urged the Bihar government to follow containment zone guidelines, upgrade medical infrastructure and focus on increasing testing levels in its battle to contain the COVID-19 virus

The NTPC has shot off a letter to the Bihar government complaining about the reluctance of private hospitals in the state capital to admit patients testing positive for, or showing symptoms of, COVID-19, and sought intervention in the matter.

As many as 362 doctors in Bihar have been served with a showcause notice for not reporting to work without prior notice amid the coronavirus pandemic. This had led the Nitish Kumar-led government in the state to enforce another strict directive - no leaves, apart from maternity leaves, can be availed by doctors, healthcare workers and paramedic sta...

Two incidents in as many weeks in Bihar have given the opposition an opportunity to target Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over the state's "deteriorating" law-and-order situation. The gruesome murder of a contractor allegedly at the hands of a government official and a display of political high-handedness by a ruling Janata Dal United MLA at a Nalanda...

The Centre this morning filed a reply in the Supreme Court on the Acute Encephalitis Syndrome outbreak in Bihar. The government told the apex court that a 100-bedded paediatric ICU would be set up at SKMCH in Muzaffarpur.

Hospitals in Bihar are woefully understaffed at every level -- from doctors and nurses to lab technicians and pharmacists, the state government admitted in the Supreme Court today. The government, which was responding to a notice from the top court regarding the deaths of children due to Acute Encephalitis Syndrome or AES, submitted a report that s...

As Bihar awaits the detailed report on what exactly caused the outbreak of encephalitis that caused the death of over 150 children, a team of doctors who treated the children indicated that asbestos homes in which the children lived could be a factor.

Ten students of a government engineering college in Bihar's Banka district had to be taken to a hospital last week after a dead snake was allegedly found in their mess food.

The Bihar state health department has issued notices to over 60 government doctors across the state for being on unauthorised leave for at least a year or more, officials said on Thursday.

A day after a Bihar couple alleged that a government hospital demanded a bribe to hand over their son's body to them, State Health Minister Mangal Pandey on Thursday ordered a detailed inquiry into the incident.

An elderly couple is out on the streets of Bihar's Samastipur seeking money to "get their son's body released from a government hospital". A hospital employee allegedly asked the couple for Rs 50,000 to release the body of their son.

Black Fungus cases spiking in Bihar, the state government has not sent supplies of the anti-fungal injection for over 300 patients admitted in different hospitals of Patna for two straight days.

A key aide of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday clashed with senior Congress leader P Chidambaran after the latter expressed outrage, on twitter over a media report depicting shabby condition of a leading government hospital in the state.

The Indian Army has mobilised two field hospitals from the northeast to Patna to assist the Bihar government in fighting the escalating cases of COVID-19 in the state, military officials said on Thursday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's office today announced the inauguration of two 500-bed makeshift COVID-19 hospitals in Bihar saying that these facilities, built with funds from the PM-CARES Fund Trust, would go a long way in helping the state tide over the coronavirus pandemic.

The centre has urged the Bihar government to follow containment zone guidelines, upgrade medical infrastructure and focus on increasing testing levels in its battle to contain the COVID-19 virus

The NTPC has shot off a letter to the Bihar government complaining about the reluctance of private hospitals in the state capital to admit patients testing positive for, or showing symptoms of, COVID-19, and sought intervention in the matter.

As many as 362 doctors in Bihar have been served with a showcause notice for not reporting to work without prior notice amid the coronavirus pandemic. This had led the Nitish Kumar-led government in the state to enforce another strict directive - no leaves, apart from maternity leaves, can be availed by doctors, healthcare workers and paramedic sta...

Two incidents in as many weeks in Bihar have given the opposition an opportunity to target Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over the state's "deteriorating" law-and-order situation. The gruesome murder of a contractor allegedly at the hands of a government official and a display of political high-handedness by a ruling Janata Dal United MLA at a Nalanda...

The Centre this morning filed a reply in the Supreme Court on the Acute Encephalitis Syndrome outbreak in Bihar. The government told the apex court that a 100-bedded paediatric ICU would be set up at SKMCH in Muzaffarpur.

Hospitals in Bihar are woefully understaffed at every level -- from doctors and nurses to lab technicians and pharmacists, the state government admitted in the Supreme Court today. The government, which was responding to a notice from the top court regarding the deaths of children due to Acute Encephalitis Syndrome or AES, submitted a report that s...

As Bihar awaits the detailed report on what exactly caused the outbreak of encephalitis that caused the death of over 150 children, a team of doctors who treated the children indicated that asbestos homes in which the children lived could be a factor.