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Anti-Corruption Branch conducts search at LNJP Hospital amid row over substandard devices, supplies

Five other Delhi govt-run hospitals also under scanner. At LNJP, probe team collected 'necessary documents', it is learnt.

Clean, sanitise, refrigerate, wait — a day in the life of a morgue worker in Delhi

Morgue workers say that despite wearing PPE & taking precautions, patients’ relatives don’t want to come near, and end up misidentifying bodies.

Patients lying unattended, ambulance queue, pleas for bed — horror outside Delhi hospitals

A woman lost her husband as he lay unattended & a 38-year-old man was declared brought dead after several hospitals turned him down — scenes outside GTB, LNJP hospitals were scary.

Most of 7 with UK strain in Delhi are asymptomatic, says LNJP Hospital

Of the 38 UK returnees isolated at Delhi’s Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital, 7 tested positive for the mutant strain that has originated in the UK.  

Why Delhi’s Covid hospitals are struggling to fill ‘lucrative’ senior resident doctor posts

At least 4 hospitals in Delhi — LNJP, GTB, RML and Safdarjung — have been struggling to fill advertised senior resident posts for the last month.

Delhi dad returned home last week after Covid treatment. Today his family buried him

Discharged from Delhi's LNJP Hospital after Covid treatment on 26 June, Shaji John tested positive again and died within days.

Senior doctor at LNJP, Delhi’s Covid hospital, dies days after contracting the virus

Dr Asheem Gupta was serving in LNJP's ICUs. Wife Dr Nirupama Gupta, a radiologist working in Ghaziabad, had also tested positive for Covid but recovered a few days ago.

CCTVs in wards, one attendant for patients — Delhi issues new guidelines for Covid hospitals

The new guidelines, notified by the Delhi Health Secretary Friday, address the issues of families being unable to meet patients or easily access information on them at hospitals.

Resource crunch, anxious relatives, bad press — woes of LNJP, Delhi’s main Covid hospital

From families complaining of negligence, staff complaining of shortages and cases rising, LNJP hospital has a fine balance to strike between patient care and the resources it has.

‘Don’t shoot the messenger’: SC tells Delhi govt to withdraw cases against doctors

Supreme Court Wednesday asked the government and hospitals to stop harassing doctors for exposing the 'deplorable' state of govt-run hospitals.

On Camera

Why Modi, BJP should worry about bad blood between CEC Gyanesh Kumar and Rahul Gandhi

If there is bad blood between the CEC and the Opposition leaders, it will shake the people’s faith in election results. It’s the worst thing that could happen to Indian democracy.

Navigating Trump’s tariffs is no child’s play. Indian toymakers are losing out on orders, enquiries

Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.

Pakistan signs $1.5 billion deal to sell lethal combat weapons to Sudan’s junta

The deal, believed to be paid for by a third nation, will give the Sudanese Armed Forces access to light attack aircraft, engines, armoured fighting vehicles & unmanned aerial vehicles.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?