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Topic: BRD Medical College

‘Because of Jawan & letter to Shah Rukh’— Dr Kafeel Khan says booked in fresh FIR over ‘BRD ghost’

Terming charges against him 'absurd', Dr Kafeel Khan says 'biggest pain Yogi govt gave him was to distance him from his kids' who live in Rajasthan, while he is in Chennai.

This is how Yogi govt pulled off a near-miracle in Gorakhpur with encephalitis deaths

It has taken six years for CM Yogi Adityanath's Gorakhpur to pull back from the worst era of encephalitis deaths. And it all came down to demonstration of priority and political will.

Even ‘Dr Kafeel Mishra’ or ‘Dr Kafeel Kumar’ would have done the same thing, Kafeel Khan says

'They made me naked, made me lie down, used batons and sticks to hit me… I couldn’t sit for so many days,' Dr Kafeel Khan tells ThePrint days after release from jail.

Faulty vaccination, late diagnosis, ‘fudged data’ – demons that still haunt Gorakhpur kids

Encephalitis immunisation is not handled by experts, rendering it useless. Doctors also say patients reach them too late, resulting in hundreds of deaths.

Children continue to die in scores in Gorakhpur’s killer ward. No outcry?

Not much has changed at BRD Medical College since the August horror. There aren’t enough doctors, ventilators and at least five children bundled up in a single warmer.

Kafeel Khan, the doctor jailed for the Gorakhpur child deaths tragedy, gets bail

Khan, who recently wrote an open letter, claims that he had been made a scapegoat for what was essentially an administrative failure.

Gorakhpur: Lapse in encephalitis vaccine programme could be the missing link

ICMR study points to low immunisation rate due to factors such as superstitions and lack of awareness among health officials.

Beyond oxygen supply

Scandals can be useful opportunities for systemic correctives. The Gorakhpur children’s deaths has been a scandal wasted. T.N. Ninan

Despite order, doctors of Gorakhpur’s BRD Medical College have thriving private practice.

The government says it's cracking down on doctors violating its rule on private practice, due to which many doctors might run into trouble.  Anshuman Kumar

Despite order, doctors of Gorakhpur’s BRD Medical College have thriving private practice

The government says it's cracking down on doctors violating its rule on private practice, due to which many doctors might run into trouble.  Kumar Anshuman in Gorakhpur

On Camera

Kolkata’s silencing of Javed Akhtar exposes India’s secular vacuum

Even those parties that wear the label of secular and progressive often bow to the pressures of fundamentalist groups within the Muslim community.

GST 2.0: India streamlines indirect tax regime amid Trump tariffs & what it means for consumers

Goods and Services Tax Council paves way for a broad two-slab structure of 5% and 18% with a demerit rate of 40% for super luxury and 'sin' goods.

Dassault Aviation takes majority control of joint venture with Anil Ambani’s Reliance

Following the transaction which is expected to be completed by November, Dassault Reliance Aerospace Ltd will become an associate company, with Reliance retaining a 49% stake.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.