Free Medical Camps

Amid the ongoing farmers protest against the Central agri laws at Delhi borders, American cardiologist Dr Swaiman Singh has decided to put his return to New Jersey on hold and has been camping at Tikri border for the past 3 months providing free medical checkup and medicine to protestors.

After free medical camps by non-government organisations at Singhu border, an Amritsar-based eatery has come forward to provide charity meals to the agitating farmers at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border in Ghazipur.

The Madhya Pradesh government has suspended a top medical officer following the loss of vision of 11 patients who underwent free cataract surgery at a private hospital in Indore on August 8. Two other officials have been given show cause notices.

It is not always a doctor who is checking people - blood sugar, blood pressure, haemoglobin and other parameters - at the free health camps in India. The prestigious medical journal from UK, British Medical Journal, better known as BMJ, says it is mostly unlicensed sales representatives.

At least 14 people have lost their vision after cataract surgery at an eye camp organized without permission by an NGO in Punjab last month. Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has ordered an inquiry.

Medical negligence - a fallout of meeting government's sterilisation targets - is suspected to be behind the deaths of 11 women in Chhattisgarh.The woman had undergone tubectomy operations at a free camp organised by the government on Saturday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked Chief Minister Raman Singh to ensure a thorough probe into the inc...

Twenty eight people, mostly tribals or Dalits, lost their vision after a cataract surgery at a free eye camp organised by a private hospital in Madhya Pradesh's tribal Mandla district.A day after the operation, all patients developed infection and their eyes started bleeding. But they were sent back home after being given a few eye drops."My eyes h...

Amid the ongoing farmers protest against the Central agri laws at Delhi borders, American cardiologist Dr Swaiman Singh has decided to put his return to New Jersey on hold and has been camping at Tikri border for the past 3 months providing free medical checkup and medicine to protestors.

After free medical camps by non-government organisations at Singhu border, an Amritsar-based eatery has come forward to provide charity meals to the agitating farmers at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border in Ghazipur.

The Madhya Pradesh government has suspended a top medical officer following the loss of vision of 11 patients who underwent free cataract surgery at a private hospital in Indore on August 8. Two other officials have been given show cause notices.

It is not always a doctor who is checking people - blood sugar, blood pressure, haemoglobin and other parameters - at the free health camps in India. The prestigious medical journal from UK, British Medical Journal, better known as BMJ, says it is mostly unlicensed sales representatives.

At least 14 people have lost their vision after cataract surgery at an eye camp organized without permission by an NGO in Punjab last month. Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has ordered an inquiry.

Medical negligence - a fallout of meeting government's sterilisation targets - is suspected to be behind the deaths of 11 women in Chhattisgarh.The woman had undergone tubectomy operations at a free camp organised by the government on Saturday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked Chief Minister Raman Singh to ensure a thorough probe into the inc...

Twenty eight people, mostly tribals or Dalits, lost their vision after a cataract surgery at a free eye camp organised by a private hospital in Madhya Pradesh's tribal Mandla district.A day after the operation, all patients developed infection and their eyes started bleeding. But they were sent back home after being given a few eye drops."My eyes h...