Up Rural Hospitals

A social worker on hunger strike for the last four months to protest against alleged corruption in rural development works has died in the district hospital, officials said today.

In a major decision aimed at expanding the health infrastructure, especially in rural and semi-rural areas, the Maharashtra government on Wednesday decided to set up new medical colleges and super-speciality hospitals across the state on a public-pri

Fourteen government doctors in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao, just 40 km from capital Lucknow, who are in charge of rural hospitals in the district, have resigned from their posts saying they are being made the scapegoats for the rise in Covid infections.

Heavy rain has killed more than 110 people across UP and Bihar over the past week, forcing the transfer of nearly 900 prisoners from a district jail and leading to the flooding of a hospital. It has also affected rail services and led to the collapse of thousands of houses in rural areas of both states

HR Singh sees 50 patients a day. The health centre or rural hospital that he runs in a village in Uttar Pradesh's Chitrakoot district serves 20 villages within 10 km as their only medical facility. Mr Singh is no doctor, he is a pharmacist, but in the absence of a doctor he hands out basic medicines for common illnesses like fever and cold.

Expressing concern over increase in cases of cancer, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said in Punjab the UPA government is setting up a 'National Cancer Centre' to fight the dreaded disease.

Patients at government hospitals across Rajasthan continued to suffer on the sixth day of doctors' strike on Monday, and officials said the toll due to the strike has gone up to 50 across the state. Over 20,000 contract employees of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) struck a deal with the state government and agreed to end their strike on Tu...

A social worker on hunger strike for the last four months to protest against alleged corruption in rural development works has died in the district hospital, officials said today.

In a major decision aimed at expanding the health infrastructure, especially in rural and semi-rural areas, the Maharashtra government on Wednesday decided to set up new medical colleges and super-speciality hospitals across the state on a public-pri

Fourteen government doctors in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao, just 40 km from capital Lucknow, who are in charge of rural hospitals in the district, have resigned from their posts saying they are being made the scapegoats for the rise in Covid infections.

Heavy rain has killed more than 110 people across UP and Bihar over the past week, forcing the transfer of nearly 900 prisoners from a district jail and leading to the flooding of a hospital. It has also affected rail services and led to the collapse of thousands of houses in rural areas of both states

HR Singh sees 50 patients a day. The health centre or rural hospital that he runs in a village in Uttar Pradesh's Chitrakoot district serves 20 villages within 10 km as their only medical facility. Mr Singh is no doctor, he is a pharmacist, but in the absence of a doctor he hands out basic medicines for common illnesses like fever and cold.

Expressing concern over increase in cases of cancer, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said in Punjab the UPA government is setting up a 'National Cancer Centre' to fight the dreaded disease.

Patients at government hospitals across Rajasthan continued to suffer on the sixth day of doctors' strike on Monday, and officials said the toll due to the strike has gone up to 50 across the state. Over 20,000 contract employees of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) struck a deal with the state government and agreed to end their strike on Tu...