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India’s testing strategy is right, we have increased the numbers significantly: AIIMS chief

In an interview to ThePrint, AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria says India doesn’t need to test everyone as the number of positive samples hasn’t risen in proportion to the tests.

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.

On Camera

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

US pilot says his team pulled out of Dubai Air Show after Tejas crash out of respect for IAF pilot

Taylor ‘Fema’ Hiester, commander of USAF F-16 Viper Demo Team, hit out at air show organisers for continuing with the show after Wing Commander Namansh Syal lost his life in the incident.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.