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3 meals, Ramayan on TV, and a long wait to go home: Life inside a Delhi quarantine centre

Migrant labourers and patients from AIIMS and Safdarjung hospital are waiting out the lockdown at this quarantine centre where 3 meals and a roof is welcome, but painfully so.

AIIMS resident doctor attempts suicide over ‘caste and gender discrimination’

In letter to Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, Resident Doctors' Association says AIIMS took no action on complaints of discrimination despite repeated requests.

AIIMS releases guidelines on reuse of PPE, says depletion of stocks due to Covid-19

According to the guidelines, decontamination of PPE kits for purpose of reuse is not recommended as it might degrade performance of the equipment.

Cancer, dialysis patients struggle for treatment as hospitals are stretched by Covid-19

Most government hospitals have stopped routine services & are running only emergency departments and conducting emergency surgeries.

AIIMS plans to use prototype of ventilators for Covid-19 patients due to shortage

AIIMS is in talks with AgVa Healthcare, which claims to offer a lightweight, handy and cheap ventilators that can be used for COVID-19 patients.

Need more masks, sanitisers — doctors say hospitals ill-equipped to fight COVID-19

Doctors across UP, Jammu, Delhi and Puducherry say there is a lack of N95 masks, sanitisers or protective equipment in their hospitals.

AIIMS to shut down OPD from 24 March till further notice

AIIMS earlier issued a circular postponing all nonessential elective procedures, surgeries and directed for only emergency life-saving surgeries with effect from 21 March.

Govt asks AIIMS to set up isolation beds for coronavirus cases in new emergency wing

The health ministry also asked the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Jhajjar to augment its isolation bed capacity to 125 from the existing 25.

AIIMS confirms 18 people from JNU admitted with head injuries and abrasions

Hospital officials say JNU Students' Union president Aishe Ghosh has suffered lacerations on her forehead and is undergoing investigations.

AIIMS conducts second post-mortem on bodies of Hyderabad rape accused

The Telangana High Court Saturday ordered another post-mortem of the four killed by Hyderabad Police in an alleged encounter on 6 December.

On Camera

No Mamata Banerjee, women’s safety isn’t a curfew issue

For Indian women, the smallest unit of control becomes the family; the largest, the State. Both speak the same language.

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.