AMRITSAR: Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday inaugurated 75-crore Bebe Nanki Mother and Child Care Centre at the Government Medical College. Badal said 28 crore had been sanctioned for setting up a state-of-the-art Guru Tegh Bahadur Diagnostic Centre at the medical college. During the last four years, the state ...

CHANDIGARH: If any doctor of a government medical college in Punjab refers a patient to a private lab for diagnosis, he could face suspension. Medical education and research minister Tikshan Sud on Wednesday gave the strict instructions barring government medical colleges from referring patients to private labs or diagnostic centres. At ...

CHANDIGARH: Patients suffering from mental disorders will soon be able to consult doctors at PGI, Chandigarh, without having to go there. A research team of the psychiatry department has come up with a tele-psychiatry project, under which patients from far-lung areas would be provided free consultation. The Rs 3-crore "Development and ...

GURDASPUR: Nine confirmed cases of dengue have been reported in Gurdaspur. Civil Surgeon Dr Dalip Kumar told HT on Friday that many patients gad got tests done at private laboratory clinic, which gave wrong reports. When suspected patients of dengue got tests done at Government Medical College, Amritsar, they turned ...

UDHAMPUR: Seventeen passengers, including four women, were killed on the spot and over 59 were critically injured when the overloaded bus carrying them rolled down a deep gorge at Bidda, 95 km from Jammu, on Reasi-Mahore road on Friday. The bus (6571/JK02E) was on its way to Mahore from Reasi when ...

AMRITSAR: The Indian Academy of Pediatrics organized a seminar on neonatal respiratory distress syndrome on Saturday where a specialist from USA, Dr Rangasamy Ramanathan, elaborated on the right ways to administer surfactant to newborn. The use of surfactant immediately after birth can produce 100 percent effect, he said. Dr Narinder Singh, ...

SAS NAGAR: The Union government has rapped the Punjab government for not setting up regional cancer centres and oncology wings in state government institutions. In a Letter to Chief Minister  Parkash Singh Badal, Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said, ‘ We have already released funds to the tune of Rs ...

PATIALA: Contractual nurses have alleged bias in the selection process of Government Medical College and Rajindra Hospital here, fearing money exchanged hands. A section of staff nurses and Class N employees raised anti­ government slogans when Chief Parliamentary Secretary Sital Singh arrived to preside over a function to distribute joining letters ...