Arnhem hospital postpones operations after IT upgrade problems

1 week ago

Private hospital struggle as PMC fails to clear pending dues

The Association of Hospitals, Pune has expressed concerns over the delay in payments from Pune Municipal Corporation for providing treatment to patients treated under the Urban Poor Health Scheme and Contributory Health Scheme. The AOH is an association of big hospitals in the city that includes hospitals like Ruby Hall Clinic, KEM, Noble Hospital, Jehangir Hospital, Poona Hospital, KEM Hospital, …

Hospitals Hospital Pmc Noble Hospital

3 weeks, 3 days ago

Historic Arnhem buildings face collapse as firefighters struggle to contain blaze

NL Times

A massive fire continues to rage in the historic city center of Arnhem, putting multiple 18th- and 19th-century buildings at risk of collapse. Firefighters have been battling the blaze since early Thursday morning, as at least ten buildings, including shops and residential flats, have been severely damaged or completely destroyed. Brand Arnhem 🔥 De graafwerkzaamheden zijn begonnen, om het gas …

Buildings

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Record number of patients waiting over 12 hours after A&E admission

The Independent

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery The rise in patients medically fit for discharge who remain in …

Record Care Pressure Hospital Winter Health Cent Nhs

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Protests after 2 sudden deaths force closure of hospital trauma unit in Central African Republic

Associated Press

BANGUI, Central African Republic — The sudden closure in the Central African Republic of the orthopedic trauma surgery unit at the capital ‘s main hospital following the deaths of two people, including a government minister’s niece, has sparked concern among patients and relatives. The hospital has faced problems operating smoothly due to frequent power cuts, said Joseph Bindoum, head of …

Health Patients Hospital Unit Central African Republic

2 months, 1 week ago

Telangana: Hospitals Stop Treating Arogyasri Patients over Pending Claims

Deccan Chronicle

Warangal: In a big development, the Telangana Network Hospital Association announced on Monday that all Arogyasri Network Hospitals have suspended treatment for Arogyasri beneficiaries. This decision comes amid ongoing disputes with the Telangana state government over delayed claim payments, which the government attributes to the hospitals' severe financial distress. “The Arogyasri scheme provides free medical treatment to Below Poverty Level …

Hospitals Telangana Network Hospitals Treating Arogyasri

2 months, 2 weeks ago

Arnhem hospital limits water use over quality concerns

NL Times

The Rijnstate Hospital in Arnhem has suspended the use of tap water for drinking after water utility Vitens raised concerns about its quality. The issue arose Friday evening when water supply problems forced the temporary closure of Rijnstate's emergency room, operating rooms, and dialysis department. While the water supply was restored after a few hours, subsequent quality checks revealed potential …

Water Hospital Quality Patients

2 months, 2 weeks ago

Aarogyasri services stopped at 370 private hospitals

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad:Medical services through government schemes such as Rajiv Aarogyasri, Employees Health Scheme and Journalists’ Health Scheme were suspended in around 370 private hospitals due to the government’s failure to address the hospitals' demands, including package revisions and clearing of outstanding dues. Services will continue to be withheld till our packages are revised and dues are cleared,” said Dr V. Rakesh, …

Hospitals Aarogyasri Dr Rakesh Dues Dr

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Patients lose patience as Alangulam government hospital faces severe shortage of doctors

New Indian Express

TENKASI: The Alangulam Government Hospital is reeling under a critical shortage of doctors, leaving the patients in the lurch. Out of six sanctioned doctor posts, only two are currently filled, leading to long queues of outpatients and frequent referrals of inpatients to Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital. While surgeries were previously referred to TvMCH, the former Chief Medical Officer, Dr Shivram …

Patients Severe Shortage

7 months ago

Defence ministry IT problem has caused nationwide outage

Dutch News

A defence ministry IT failure is behind the major problems affecting Eindhoven airport, the emergency services and the Digid system, a spokesman has confirmed. “We are experiencing an outage with one of our major systems which is used across the Dutch government,” spokesman Laurens Bos said. Earlier, the National Cyber Security Centre told RTL there is a problem in a …

Eindhoven Airport

7 months, 1 week ago

‘Will shut hospital’: High Court slams Kolkata lapses

Hindustan Times

An irate Calcutta high court on Friday pulled up the West Bengal government and state police over vandalism at a top hospital where a young doctor was raped and murdered last week, calling it an “absolute failure” of state machinery and warning that it could “close down” the public facility in the face of glaring mismanagement. The court’s rebuke came …

Crime Kolkata High Court Court Work Doctors Hospital

7 months, 2 weeks ago

Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences : 40% surgeries postponed; doctors’ leaves cancelled

Hindustan Times

LUCKNOW: Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences had to postpone 15 operations scheduled for the day while 25 were conducted on Tuesday as around 350 resident doctors withdrew from all OPD and surgical duties on Tuesday. “Resident doctors are not attending to any elective surgeries, OPD patients, OT duties, or anything else—only emergency services and wards are running,” said …

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8 months ago

Dist hospital makes arrangement for diagnostic facility

Hindustan Times

Following public outrage and newspaper reports, the Aundh District Hospital has resumed free-of-cost diagnostic facilities like CT scans, MRIs and others after five months, said officials. Even as the new agency was given six months to set up the unit, authorities failed to make alternative arrangements for the facilities at the hospital that daily sees hundreds of patients. The diagnostic …

Diagnostic Dist Hospital Adh

8 months, 1 week ago

Tech outage halts surgeries, medical treatments across the US

Associated Press

Alison Baulos says her 73-year-old father was about to head to a Kentucky hospital for open-heart surgery when it was abruptly canceled early Friday morning. All elective surgeries were postponed and clinics were operating on paper Friday morning, according to information posted on the health system’s website. “We don’t expect just one little software update to paralyze the whole system, …

Health Hospital New York System Outage Baulos

8 months, 1 week ago

A faulty software update causes havoc worldwide for airlines, hospitals and governments

Associated Press

NEW YORK — A faulty software update caused technological havoc worldwide on Friday, grounding flights, knocking down some financial companies and news outlets, and disrupting hospitals, small businesses and government offices. Cyber expert James Bore said on Friday that the global technology outage “is going to take some time to fix” as flights, banks, media outlets and companies across the …

Airlines Microsoft New York Los Angeles Delayed Long Hours

8 months, 1 week ago

A faulty software update causes havoc worldwide for airlines, hospitals and governments

LA Times

A faulty software update caused technological havoc worldwide Friday, grounding flights, knocking down some financial companies and news outlets, and disrupting hospitals, small businesses and government offices. A disturbing reminder of vulnerability “This is a very, very uncomfortable illustration of the fragility of the world’s core internet infrastructure,” said Ciaran Martin, a professor at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government …

Hospitals Microsoft Britain System Problems Systems Outage

9 months ago

Healthcare services unaffected at Gandhi Hospital and Osmania General Hospital despite strike by junior doctors

The Hindu

Hours after junior doctors in Telangana commenced a indefinite strike as a result of unmet demands from the government, Hyderabad’s two main government hospitals announced emergency measures so that medical services are not affected. Superintendent of Gandhi Hospital Secunderabad, Dr Raja Rao, on Monday announced that all faculty leaves have been cancelled. Meanwhile, at Osmania General Hospital, alternative measures were …

Hospital Patient

9 months, 2 weeks ago

Recovery from cyber attack that cancelled thousands of hospital appointments to take months, NHS admits

The Independent

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy It will take months for hospitals to recover from a major …

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10 months, 1 week ago

KEM radiology dept seeks additional resources to address patient complaints

Hindustan Times

Mumbai: In order to urgently address the complaints of month-long waiting periods, delays in ultrasound and better patient care, the radiology department of King Edward Memorial Hospital in Parel has demanded more ultrasound machines and postgraduate students from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation to meet their demands. HT Image The move comes after the administration received complaints of an ongoing long …

Patients Hospital Long Waiting Patient Machines Kem

1 year ago

SA Health postpones elective surgeries across public hospitals in Adelaide, as patient demand surges

ABC

In short: SA Health is postponing non-urgent elective surgeries across Adelaide's public hospitals to deal with a surge in patient demand. SA Health is postponing non-urgent elective surgeries across Adelaide's public hospitals to deal with a surge in patient demand. "All of the state's emergency departments are open and continuing to operate as normal, however, we are taking steps to …

Demand System Patient Surgeries Sa Health Elective Elective Surgeries

1 year ago

Kenyan doctors stop providing emergency services at public hospitals as strike enters second week

Associated Press

NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyan doctors stopped providing emergency services at public hospitals on Thursday, as they escalated a national strike that entered its second week. Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentists Union Secretary-General Dr. Davji Bhimji said the doctors escalated the strike and stopped providing bare minimum services because the government had shown no efforts to resolve the labor dispute. …

Emergency Services Services Kenyan Doctors Stopped Providing

1 year, 6 months ago

Ambulances stuck in hospital queues ‘lost’ almost two million hours last year

The Independent

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Ambulance crews “lost” nearly two million hours while waiting to …

England Ambulance Patients Care Report Nhs Handover Delays

1 year, 6 months ago

A hospital in search of a cure

The Hindu

Three men, riding together on a scooter, arrive at the Osmania General Hospital ’s in-patient facility on a Tuesday afternoon. “It will still not meet the needs of the patients who come to the hospital,” says a doctor from Telangana Junior Doctors Association-OGH branch. The government should consider constructing at least a 3,000-bed hospital, given the patient count,” the doctor …

India Heritage Hyderabad Patients Buildings Telangana State

1 year, 8 months ago

VUmc in Amsterdam closes emergency dept at night

Dutch News

Amsterdam hospital VUmc will not be offering emergency help between 8 pm and 7.30 am from next week, because of a lack of staff, local broadcaster AT5 reported. The final closure of the hospital’s emergency department had been planned for May next year, with the AMC as an alternative for emergencies. Closures through lack of staff already hit the Isala …

Emergency Hospital Department

2 years ago

Over 175,000 appointments cancelled in junior doctors’ strikes

The Telegraph

This week’s junior doctors’ strikes resulted in more than 175,000 operations and appointments being scrapped – more than the winter of walkouts by other NHS workers, official figures have revealed. The data show the devastating impact of industrial action, which saw junior doctors withdraw from A&E and critical care departments in hospitals across England, as well as planned care. Health …

Junior Doctors Nhs

2 years ago

Hospital strike to go ahead on Thursday with no end in sight to dispute

Dutch News

A one-day strike by hospital workers is set to go ahead on March 16 with no sign of a deal between unions and employers on the horizon. Scheduled operations have been cancelled at 64 facilities across the country, including the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek hospital in Amsterdam, which is taking part in a strike for the first time. ‘The 10% increase …

Hospital

2 years, 2 months ago

‘Mayhem’ in A&E: The horrifying reality of Britain’s emergency care crisis

The Independent

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The Independent also found: An 82-year-old man with chronic kidney disease waited 56 hours on …

Health Independent Patients Care Hospital Hours Health Check

2 years, 2 months ago

Up to 500 people dying each week from emergency care delays, doctor says

The Telegraph

Dr Boyle told Times Radio: “If you look at the graphs they all are going the wrong way, and I think there needs to be a real reset. “We need to increase our capacity within our hospitals, we need to make sure that there are alternative ways so that people aren’t all just funnelled into the ambulance service and emergency …

2 years, 2 months ago

Amid surge at UNM Hospital, feds send relief for staff

Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The federal government is dispatching a medical team to assist the University of New Mexico Children’s Hospital, which has been overwhelmed with patients. The Albuquerque hospital announced a 14-member disaster response team from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will begin seeing children Saturday. Some doctors say they are busier than the past two winters …

Hospital Unm Hospital Staff Albuquerque

2 years, 3 months ago

Hospitals very busy on Sunday due to slipperiness

NL Times

Because of the slippery streets, bike paths, sidewalks and curbs, as well as the last ditch effort by some people to skate on natural ice, hospitals in the Netherlands were extremely busy on Sunday and the overnight period including early Monday. The Beatrix Hospital in Gorinchem said it was "unbelievably busy" in their first aid center. The St. Antonius hospital …

Hospitals Hospital Some People Busy

2 years, 3 months ago

Urgent care patients facing five-hour ambulance waits in London

The Independent

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Patients needing urgent ambulances in London faced five-hour waits this week …

Independent Patients Urgent Email Nhs Health Check Staff

2 years, 3 months ago

Day 9 of AIIMS server outage: OPD treatments crawl at 10% of capacity

Hindustan Times

New Delhi: Daily patient treatments at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences have dipped to just 10% of the usual daily footfall since the premier government hospital’s servers were hit by ransomware nine days ago, showed data from the health care facility’s administration. On Thursday, several AIIMS doctors confirmed that to speed up the process of bringing their digital …

Doctors Hospital Fir Doctor Aiims Opd Its Centres

2 years, 6 months ago

‘Thousands of hospital appointments cancelled’ because of Queen’s funeral

The Independent

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Several NHS trusts have urged all "non-urgent” procedures and appointments" to be postponed, including …

Appointments Funeral Patients Queen Nhs Hospital Appointment

2 years, 8 months ago

Zoetermeer emergency room closed 3 days per week over staff shortages

NL Times

Due to staff shortages, the LangeLand Hospital in Zoetermeer is closing its emergency room three days a week, from 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday to 8:00 a.m. on Friday. The hospital found it impossible to staff the emergency room 24/7 due to a shortage of specialized personnel on the ward. Other hospitals are not yet temporarily closing their emergency rooms, but …

Emergency Hospital Room Shortage Baden Zoetermeer Langeland

2 years, 10 months ago

Hospitals still struggling with pandemic backlog

NL Times

Even though the number of coronavirus patients in Dutch hospitals has fallen sharply, hospitals are still struggling with long waiting lists. They're facing high absenteeism, resulting in many unused surgery rooms because of insufficient staff to use them, AD reports after surveying the hospitals. The latest figures from the Dutch Healthcare Authority show that between 100,000 and 120,000 patients in …

Unused Surgery

2 years, 11 months ago

Emergency rooms under pressure due to many patients, staff shortages

NL Times

The emergency rooms in Dutch hospitals are forced to stop admitting patients for several hours almost every week due to a combination of more patients and staff shortages, De Telegraaf reports. Peter Langenbach, director of Maasstad Hospital, has seen regular emergency room closures in the Rotterdam region over the past weeks. David Baden of the Dutch Association of Emergency Medicine …

Emergency Emergency Rooms Staff Shortages

3 years, 1 month ago

Hospital patients wait four times longer for post-Covid catch-up care than those in private clinics

NL Times

Patients treated by hospitals have to wait much longer for a treatment postponed during the pandemic to be caught up than patients treated by a private clinic. For some treatments, waiting times at hospitals are up to four times longer than at private clinics, investigative journalism platform Investico found in a study for Trouw and De Groene Amsterdammer. Patients in …

Patients Hospitals Hospital Wait Private Clinics Private Clinics

3 years, 1 month ago

Covid absenteeism disrupts care at St Jansdal hospital

NL Times

The St Jansdal Hospital is dealing with such high absenteeism that it had to cancel about 30 percent of all surgeries and many outpatient appointments. An "extremely high" number of employees is currently in isolation due to a Covid-19 infection or quarantine because of the coronavirus rules, the hospital said. Thirty percent of the surgery program in Hardewijk is at …

Hospital St Jansdal

3 years, 1 month ago

Hospitals begin to limp out of the latest COVID-19 surge

The Independent

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Health Patients Care Covid Number Surge Omicron

3 years, 2 months ago

Even as Omicron starts to ease in California, hospitals facing grim conditions

LA Times

On a cold, rainy day, a paramedic places a blanket on a patient he has brought to an emergency department in Los Angeles County. It’s really just the sheer number of patients that causes challenges.” The Los Angeles hospital has been forced to postpone some scheduled surgeries, such as for orthopedics, while still performing other procedures “like cancer surgery or …

Health Patients Care Hospitals Hospital California Smith

3 years, 2 months ago

New hospital opens at Maitland as COVID cases continue rising

ABC

A $470 million public hospital has opened in the NSW Hunter Valley, after a decade of planning and debate over its funding. Key points: Maitland's new $470 million hospital has opened today More than 100 patients have been transferred from the old hospital The new facility features a 12-chair chemotherapy service The new Maitland hospital at Metford will serve a …

Patients Hospital Covid Old Maitland New Hospital

3 years, 2 months ago

AIIMS stops speciality clinics, OPD services to function with restrictions amid Covid surge

India Today

Amid the rising cases of Covid infections, the AIIMS has suspended routine inpatient non-emergency admissions and all routine procedures or non-essential surgeries with immediate effect while initiating the process to convert the Trauma Centre into a dedicated Covid facility. The AIIMS said, "OPD services in AIIMS Hospital and all Centres will continue to function with restricted registrations limited to only …

Opd Opd Services Covid Surge Speciality Clinic

3 years, 3 months ago

Medical experts concerned more operations to be cancelled due to Omicron

NL Times

Medical experts fear the backlog of surgeries will further increase due to the Omicron variant, the Volkskrant reported. "Every month a patient has to wait, the further their sicknesses progresses," chair of the National Association Intensive Care Diederik Gommers said. The effect we see daily: dialysis capacity is reaching its maximum," chair of the internists association Robin Peeters said. Ernst …

Care Medical Experts Experts Concerned Medical Experts Concerned

3 years, 3 months ago

More than 8,000 ambulance patients waiting over an hour for A&E handover

The Independent

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy More than 8,000 patients waited longer than an hour to …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Tenfold increase in patients waiting over eight hours to be transferred from ambulance to A&E

The Telegraph

Crisis was ‘avoidable’ Dr Ian Higginson, the Vice President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said bed capacity in hospitals is limited due to wards being split between Covid and non-Covid patients. Separate figures released this week showed around 10,500 hospital beds are being blocked by patients every day who are fit enough to be discharged, representing around one …

Ambulance Patients Hospital Patient

3 years, 4 months ago

Third of Dutch hospitals unable to provide any scheduled care

NL Times

The current coronavirus wave continues to put pressure on the healthcare system in the Netherlands. Over a third of the 74 Dutch hospitals can no longer provide any scheduled care, like hip- or knee surgeries. That is more than double compared to the ten hospitals that couldn't offer planned care last week, the Dutch healthcare authority NZa said on Tuesday. …

Dutch Care Hospitals

3 years, 4 months ago

Barossa hospital's emergency department closed over COVID-19 fears after South Australia's borders reopen

ABC

Kapunda Hospital in the Barossa Valley will close its accident and emergency department indefinitely as South Australia's borders reopen. Key points: The Kapunda Hospital has temporarily closed its emergency department The closure is to decrease the risk of a COVID-19 outbreak in an aged care facility Patients will be diverted to the nearby towns of Gawler, Angaston and Tanunda The …

Emergency Patients Hospital Department Van Van Dissel Dissel

3 years, 4 months ago

More hospitals unable to provide scheduled healthcare

NL Times

Twelve Dutch hospitals are currently unable or not always able to provide "critical scheduled care" within six weeks, the Dutch healthcare authority NZa reported. A week ago, nine hospitals were unable or not always able to deliver crucial scheduled care in a timely manner. According to the NZa, most hospitals indicate that they can no longer provide catch-up care. According …

Hospitals Provide Care Limburg

3 years, 4 months ago

IC departments 'will struggle to cope' with influx of coronavirus patients

Dutch News

Intensive care specialists at eight of the country’s largest hospitals have warned that their departments risk being overwhelmed if the government fails to curb the latest wave of coronavirus infections. Peter van der Voort, head of intensive care at Groningen’s UMC hospital, told Nieuwsuur that plans to increase the number of IC beds to 1,350 were unrealistic because of a …

Patients Care Number Intensive Care Intensive Coronavirus Patients Ic Surgeons

3 years, 4 months ago

IC departments 'will struggle to cope' with influx of coronavirus patients

Dutch News

Intensive care specialists at eight of the country’s largest hospitals have warned that their departments risk being overwhelmed if the government fails to curb the latest wave of coronavirus infections. Peter van der Voort, head of intensive care at Groningen’s UMC hospital, told Nieuwsuur that plans to increase the number of IC beds to 1,350 were unrealistic because of a …

Patients Care Number Intensive Care Intensive Coronavirus Patients Ic Surgeons

Arnhem hospital postpones operations after IT upgrade problems

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