CHANDIGARH(Punjab): Keeping political differences aside, former finance minister Manpreet Badal and his father Gurdas Badal on Wednesday visited PGI to meet chief minister Parkash Singh Badal's ailing wife Surinder Kaur Badal. She is suffering from throat cancer and has been in PGI for the past week. Unconscious, she is said to ...

ROHTAK: Services at the state's premier medical institution ­ Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS) - here were restored on Wednesday following an agreement between the authorities and the junior doctors who had been on strike since Monday. The stir has started in response to alleged ...

Parkash Singh Badal has been admitted to Chandigarh's PGI Hospital after he tumbled down at his residence.

ARNETU (PATIALA): Muskan's little hands 'tremble as she grips a pen for a few seconds, finally dropping it. This ill-fated three-and-a-half-year-old girl is among at least two dozen kids of the village, situated on the banks of the Ghaggar, who are suffering from deformity of the limbs. Several other kids are ...

CHANDIGARH: A high-level Central team of medical experts will visit cancer belt in the Malwa region from Thursday for an in depth study of the disease, the state Congress has said. In a press statement, the Congress said during its three-day visit, the team will study the problem of high incidence ...

SOLAN: A woman from Solan is down with swine flu and the pandemic has killed a youth in Barotiwala. The Rapid Response Team (RRT) of the Department of Health on Saturday visited the patient's neighbourhood and began. Contact treatment of 261 people to contain the spread the H1N1 virus. There's anxiety in ...

KARNAL: Eleven Villagers, including seven women, were killed when an overloaded jeep and a truck collided on the Karmal-Assandh road early on Wednesday. Police said seven victims, including the Jeep driver, died on the spot, while four succumbed to head injuries at the trauma centre in Karnal. Egith occupants sustained injuries, while ...

CHANDIGARH: A pioneering research by the PGI has come as a ray of hope for children suffering from kidney disorders. This is for the first time that a study has shown that the genetic constitution of a cell can also be one of the factors leading to kidney damage among ...

MANDI: A student of Sundernagar Polytechnic Institute succumbed to his injuries on Thursday due to negligence on the part of Mandi Civil Hospital and a private hospital, his college mates told reporters on Sunday. Amardeep and his friend Gunjan had met with a motorcycle accident on Thursday near Sundernagar. Amardeep ...

CHANDIGARH: Renowned writer and Sahitya Akademi awardee Santokh Singh Dhir died at the PGI here at the age of 90 on Monday. Famous for his stories touching issues pertaining to the downtrodden; Dhir was admitted to the PGI a few days back due to illness. Dhir, who had Marxist limelight for his ...

PATHANKOT: Dayanand Medical College and Hospital (DMCH), Ludhiana, turned away an ex-servicemen suffering from cancer when he came for his fifth session of chemotherapy under the Ex-servicemen’s Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS). The reason the hospital has given in that over Rs 10 crore in dues in pending under the scheme for ...

SUKHANAND (MOGA): It has been a traumatic seven months for the family of Veerpal Kaur, a class X student from Sukhanand village who was diagnosed with blood cancer and will need a bone marrow transplant to survive. For the below subsistence level family - Veerpal's father Sulakhan Singh has no means ...