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2 years, 10 months ago

Bihar PG docs waiting for govt posting may move court

A group of medical practitioners, who completed their postgraduate course from state-run medical colleges last year, are contemplating to move the court if the state health department does not heed their request to adjust the nine-month delay against their post-PG service bond period, said doctors. A group of medical practitioners, who completed their PG course last year, are contemplating to …

Health Kerala Medical Bihar Service Doctors Bond

3 years, 4 months ago

3 Kids Die of Viral Fever in Bihar Hospital in Last 24 Hours, Toll Reaches 6

News 18

The viral fever is turning out to be deadly in Bihar with three infants dying in Nalanda Medical College and Hospital over the last 24 hours. A two and a half month infant from Sarai in Vaishali district, admitted in NMCH on September 13, died on Tuesday. An official of Bihar Health Department said that 830 children with viral fever …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Spike in viral fever cases triggers fear in Bihar

Hindustan Times

An early spike in viral infection in children has triggered panic among parents, who are rushing to hospitals with their wards, after two recent child deaths at a village in Saran sparked fears of a possible onset of the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, said officials monitoring the situation. All 84 beds in the paediatric unit of Patna’s Nalanda …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Bihar hospitals run out of space as viral fever cases among children see a spurt

India Today

The outbreak of a viral fever in several districts of Bihar has posed a serious challenge to the state government as many children are getting admitted to hospitals, leading to a possible scarcity of beds in children's wards. Four big hospitals in Patna -- Nalanda Medical College and Hospital, Patna Medical College and Hospital, Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences …

Children Hospital Viral Patna Fever Beds Viral Fever

3 years, 7 months ago

Record No of Doctors Died in Bihar During Second Covid-19 Wave. Here's What is Plaguing its Healthcare

News 18

As fatalities continue to reach record high in second disastrous wave of Covid-19, the health care workers remain at the risk of getting affected. The Indian Medical Association in its report on Tuesday said out 269 doctors who died in the second wave of Covid-19, majority of the deaths were reported from Bihar with 78 fatalities. In Patna’s Nalanda Medical …

Bihar Doctors Hospital Covid Wave Patna Kumar

3 years, 8 months ago

Patna: Citing shortage of oxygen for Covid patients, chief of state-run NMCH asks to be relieved from duty

India Today

In yet another indicator of the worsening Covid-19 situation in Bihar, the medical superintendent of Nalanda Medical College and Hospital in Patna has asked to be relieved from his duty. In his letter to Principal Secretary Pratyaya Amrit, Dr Vinod Kumar Singh has cited the shortage of oxygen cylinders in the NMCH as the primary reason to be relieved from …

Health Bihar Hospital State Covid Nitish Kumar Oxygen Cylinders

4 years, 5 months ago

Opinion | Why Bihar hospitals are in such a sorry state

India TV News

As the total number of COVID positive cases in India inched towards the 12 lakh mark, reports are pouring in from states like Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu about a huge surge in COVID cases. When India TV reporter spoke about the sorry state of affairs in hospitals to Bihar Health Minister Mangal Pandey, the minister said, all these complaints …

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4 years, 6 months ago

RJD's Tejashwi Yadav shares viral video, claims health facility at NMCH is scary

India Today

Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav on Wednesday shared a video on his Facebook page which he claimed was shot inside Nalanda Medical College and Hospital in Patna. In the video shared by Tejashwi Yadav, a young boy shows how bodies of two patient lay in the ICU of Covid-19 ward, while other patients are treated in the next ward. …

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4 years, 7 months ago

Bihar’s death toll rises to 13, Covid-19 cases up to 2,574

Hindustan Times

Bihar reported 13th death on Sunday, even as the Covid-19 positive cases continued to rise in the state. The migrants now account for 63.67% of the state’s total Covid-19 cases, said a health department official, adding till Sunday 63,741 samples had been tested. Health secretary Lokesh Kumar Singh said the person from Siwan, who died at NMCH had tested positive …

Bihar Positive Cases State Lakh Tested Toll Rises

4 years, 8 months ago

Bihar reports 7th Covid-19 death; 2 nurses among 4 who test positive in Patna

Hindustan Times

Bihar on Wednesday reported its seventh death of a coronavirus patient, as migrant workers contributed to more than one-third of the total cases, with the virus spreading to cover the entire state late on Tuesday. Fifty-three people, including two nurses — one from the Nalanda Medical College Hospital, a dedicated Covid-19 hospital, and another from the Indira Gandhi Institute of …

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4 years, 8 months ago

Choppers showering flowers on Bihar hospitals lifts mood of medics, patients alike

Hindustan Times

Doctors, nurses and other staff at the Nalanda Medical College Hospital and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Patna were a delighted lot on Sunday as choppers showered flower petals atop their building as part of the exercise to express gratitude towards the front line warriors against the coronavirus pandemic. Doctors, nurses, paramedics and housekeeping staff lined up …

Bihar Indian Doctors Staff Nmch Hospitals Lifts

4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus cases in Bihar rise to 11

Deccan Chronicle

Patna: A woman tested positive for COVID-19 in Bihar on Sunday, taking the total number of cases in the state to 11, an official said here. Among those who have tested positive, as many as six had come into contact with a deceased patient, hailing from Munger district, who died at AIIMS, Patna, on Saturday last week, a day before …

Bihar Positive Patna Tested Nmch

4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus in Bihar: 38-year-old woman tests positive for COVID-19, state toll at 11

India TV News

A woman tested positive for COVID-19 in Bihar on Sunday, taking the total number of cases in the state to 11, an official said in Patna. A female relative of his, who attended his funeral and then returned to her home in Lakhisarai district, has tested positive, state epidemiologist Ragini Mishra said, adding that she is currently admitted to the …

Bihar Positive Test Woman Patna Tested Nmch

4 years, 9 months ago

Bihar reports three fresh coronavirus cases

Deccan Chronicle

Patna: Three fresh cases of coronavirus have been reported from Bihar in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of those who have tested positive for the dreaded COVID-19 to nine, the health department said on Friday. According to Pradip Das, Director of Rajendra Memorial Research Institute here, an ICMR centre, test reports of two staff members of a …

Positive Hospital Nmch

4 years, 9 months ago

Huge migrant population worries Bihar in times of coronavirus

Deccan Chronicle

Patna: The return of Bihar’s migrant population could be causing a worry to the Bihar state government. The administration is also closely monitoring all those who have returned from other states and even abroad”, State health secretary Sanjay Kumar told reporters in Patna on Sunday. Meanwhile, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday announced that all ration card holding families …

Bihar Gujarat State Patna Nmch

4 years, 9 months ago

As Bihar braces for return of migrants, one more person tests positive for COVID-19

Deccan Chronicle

Patna: One person has tested positive for the coronavirus COVID-19 in Patna, taking the number of confirmed cases in the state to four. “He has been kept in the isolation ward at NMCH,” nodal officer for COVID-19 Dr Ragini Mishra told this newspaper. “We are taking all kind of preventive measures and are now trying to track all those whom …

Patna Nmch

5 years, 3 months ago

Bihar floods: Fear of dengue outbreak looms over Patna; health dept denies waterlogging to blame for spike

Firstpost

After incessant rain and intense waterlogging in Bihar, the state capital Patna is under threat of dengue outbreak. Dr Ragini Mishra, epidemiologist at the State Health Society, said, “Till Wednesday, 1,277 people tested positive for dengue, of which 1,236 were identified by MAC-ELISA tests. Private hospitals, which have been treating many cases identified by the rapid diagnostic test as dengue, …

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6 years, 5 months ago

Dozen patients die, Bihar doctors end strike

Hindustan Times

Nearly a dozen patients have died during a strike by Bihar’s doctors, which was called-off on Friday after an assurance by the state government to fulfil their demands, officials said. Junior doctors from the Patna Medical College and Hospital, Nalanda Medical College and Hospital and Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital ended their strike after Bihar’s Chief Secretary Deepak Kumar assured …

Bihar Strike Doctors Junior Doctors Nmch

6 years, 5 months ago

Fish swimming in ICU: Bihar hospital turns aquarium' after heavy rain

Deccan Chronicle

Patna: The Nalanda Medical College Hospital, reportedly considered as the second-largest government hospital in Patna, has been flooded after a heavy rainfall. Moreover, in the hospital’s intensive care unit where cleanliness is of utmost importance, fish were seen swimming in water as patients were lying on the bed, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav slammed Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over the …

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Bihar PG docs waiting for govt posting may move court

3 Kids Die of Viral Fever in Bihar Hospital in Last 24 Hours, Toll Reaches 6

Spike in viral fever cases triggers fear in Bihar

Bihar hospitals run out of space as viral fever cases among children see a spurt

Record No of Doctors Died in Bihar During Second Covid-19 Wave. Here's What is Plaguing its Healthcare

Patna: Citing shortage of oxygen for Covid patients, chief of state-run NMCH asks to be relieved from duty

Opinion | Why Bihar hospitals are in such a sorry state

RJD's Tejashwi Yadav shares viral video, claims health facility at NMCH is scary

Bihar’s death toll rises to 13, Covid-19 cases up to 2,574

Bihar reports 7th Covid-19 death; 2 nurses among 4 who test positive in Patna

Choppers showering flowers on Bihar hospitals lifts mood of medics, patients alike

Coronavirus cases in Bihar rise to 11

Coronavirus in Bihar: 38-year-old woman tests positive for COVID-19, state toll at 11

Bihar reports three fresh coronavirus cases

Huge migrant population worries Bihar in times of coronavirus

As Bihar braces for return of migrants, one more person tests positive for COVID-19

Bihar floods: Fear of dengue outbreak looms over Patna; health dept denies waterlogging to blame for spike

Dozen patients die, Bihar doctors end strike

Fish swimming in ICU: Bihar hospital turns aquarium' after heavy rain