The court was hearing a petition by Sudhakar Pawar challenging the November 2023 order passed by the govt rejecting his application seeking Rs 50 lakh compensation over his wife's death.
Yemen SC rejected Nimisha Priya's appeal against death sentence in murder case. Her mother wants to negotiate blood money to ensure her release, but there's a ban on Indians traveling to Yemen.
Letby murdered 5 boys and 2 girls at a hospital in northern England where she was working in 2015 & 2016, injecting the infants with insulin or air or force feeding them milk.
Resources are already stretched to the breaking point in many hospitals in the country, as Covid-19 & sickness levels amongst staff have been particularly high, said medical staff.
Health ministry releases draft guidelines to improve working conditions of nurses, invites comments from public and stakeholders over the next one month.
Even so, India has been facing acute shortage of nurses, with top hospitals reporting attrition rate of as high as 40%, as better pay and working conditions make nurses opt for jobs abroad.
India has about 1.7 trained nurses per 1,000 people, against WHO norm of 4. Poor working conditions and pay seen as topmost reasons for their annual exodus from India.
Tenures of 3 key state-level officials — principal secretary, mission director (National Health Mission), and director (health services) — were less than 24 months in most states.
Delhi government-run Govind Ballabh Pant Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research had issued an order Saturday asking nursing personnel to only communicate in Hindi or English.
Don’t advise India’s doctors and hospital staff to do yoga, meditation and exercise in the middle of the second wave of Covid. They need mental healthcare.
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.
Coaching centres for Army aspirants in Jhunjhunu are shutting down due to plummeting admissions in the face of a lack of job guarantees under Agnipath Scheme.
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