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Jyoti Shelar

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Hospital campus crimes: What will it take to make them safe?

13 violent attacks on doctors in the state were recorded in 2023, said Dr Pratik Debaje, president, Central-MARD. (HT Photo)

Updated on Aug 29, 2024 03:49 IST

Ground report: Overworked, unsafe — young doctors battle apathy in line of duty

Doctors and medical students during a protest at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, in Kolkata, on Wednesday. (PTI)

Updated on Aug 14, 2024 17:22 IST

Slow progress in drowning prevention amid rising fatalities

**EDS: SCREENSHOT VIA PTI VIDEOS** Pune: Five persons, including a woman, are feared drowned in a waterfall close to the backwater of Bhushi Dam in Pune's Lonavala area, Sunday, June 30, 2024. (PTI Photo) (PTI06_30_2024_000362A) (PTI)

Updated on Jul 12, 2024 02:44 IST

Raising a stink over Mumbai’s polluted rivers

The Poisar river originates from the Sanjay Gandhi National Park and merges into the Arabian Sea via the Marve creek in Malad (HT PHOTO)

Updated on Jun 1, 2022 19:06 IST

Since 2017, only six deceased organ donations carried out at city’s public hospitals

ZTCC’s president Dr SK Mathur said that government hospitals should not just have kidney transplant centres but also create facilities for heart, lungs, and liver transplantation. (Getty Images)

Updated on May 20, 2022 18:19 IST

Advocate’s organ donation leads to Mumbai’s first small bowel transplant

A reminder of the importance of organ donation. Male hands holding heart with a message that reads: Organ donor. (Getty Images)

Updated on May 19, 2022 19:07 IST

Five districts record 100% boosters coverage among eligible senior citizens

Booster doses for healthcare workers, frontline workers and people above 60 were started on January 10. The Centre has mandated a 39-week gap between the second dose and the booster shot (Praful Gangurde)

Updated on May 14, 2022 16:01 IST

Uptake of boosters in 18-59 age group remains low in Maharashtra

A beneficiary gets inoculated against Covid-19 in Thane on Wednesday. Praful Gangurde/HT Photo

Updated on May 11, 2022 13:24 IST

Fewer dispensaries, lack of awareness ail Mumbai’s primary health care system

The initial plan is to have 100 polyclinics and the civic body has made a provision of <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>250 crore for the capital expenditure and <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>150 crore for the revenue expenditure on this project that aims to boost the city’s healthcare at the primary level (AP)

Updated on May 9, 2022 16:47 IST

₹500 nutrition incentive not credited for months, say TB patients

As of 2021, the city had 5,861 drug-resistant TB patients on treatment (Hindustan Times)

Updated on May 7, 2022 14:30 IST

A private ward inside Mumbai’s public hospital

Mumbai, India - April 28, 2022: A 17-bed ward will become operational on Wednesday at Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)’s King Edward Memorial (KEM) Hospital on a pilot basis for patients willing to pay for better facilities at reasonable rates for the first time in Mumbai, India, on Thursday, April 28, 2022. (Photo by Satish Bate/Hindustan Times) (Satish Bate/HT Photo)

Updated on Apr 30, 2022 18:38 IST

Covid preparedness: State charts 11 action points

According to Joshi, the ongoing heatwave calls for extra vigilance as all the previous waves have surged in hot weather conditions (Vijay Bate)

Updated on Apr 29, 2022 14:51 IST

Fewer people used state’s free ambulance service in pandemic year of 2020

The free ambulance service was started in 2014 and can be availed of by dialling the toll-free number 108. HT File Photo

Updated on Apr 27, 2022 15:51 IST

Malaria elimination: Civic body to focus on five high-risk wards

The state capital has been in the elimination phase since 2017 when the city’s Annual Parasite Index (API) went below one (HT Photo)

Updated on Apr 26, 2022 13:32 IST

In a restructure, 4,200 anganwadis notified as urban centres

Anganwadis that function in rented premises in urban areas get <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>6,500 for the rent, while the allotment for rural anganwadis is <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>1,000 (HT photo)

Updated on Apr 25, 2022 13:52 IST

During pandemic, chatbot delivered recipes, bedtime stories to anganwadi beneficiaries

The chatbot has been used by 15,09,039 people across the state and the toll-free IVR number has received as many as 26,11,922 calls (HT Photo)

Updated on Apr 22, 2022 14:00 IST

Third wave of Covid-19 in Maha caused higher fatalities in 71-80 age group

Omicron’s severe impact was thus seen only in a section of the population that was highly vulnerable due to multiple risk factors. (Praful Gangurde/HT Photo)

Updated on Apr 17, 2022 17:36 IST

Counselling helps TB patients take medicines

Shehnaz Khan and her husband Yunus with a counsellor at the MSF clinic in Govandi. (Ht Photo)

Updated on Apr 11, 2022 11:44 IST

Amid concerns of waning immunity, experts push for boosters

Infectious disease specialist Dr Om Srivastava, who is also on the state’s Covid task force, said that there is little known about the vaccines even today (Vipin Kumar/HT PHOTO)

Updated on Apr 6, 2022 13:06 IST

Keep masks on even if it’s optional, say Covid task force members

Additional municipal commissioner Suresh Kakani said the civic body will now focus on mask advisories and awareness, instead of collecting fines. (AFP)

Updated on Mar 31, 2022 19:24 IST

Mumbai sees uptick in cadaver organ donations

The organ donations came to a halt in March 2020 soon as the pandemic hit Mumbai. (Getty Images)

Updated on Mar 29, 2022 18:25 IST

Covid patients shed virus through faeces for prolonged period: NIV study

The study found that nearly 15.4% of the patients had gastrointestinal symptoms, however, the presence of viral RNA in the faeces was not related to the presence of such gastrointestinal symptoms or to the severity of the disease (Pratik Chorge/HT PHOTO)

Updated on Mar 28, 2022 14:54 IST

Eye donations pick up in Maharashtra after declining by 80% in 2020

Eye donation involves donation of cornea- the transparent tissue covering the front of the eye. (Hindustan Times)

Updated on Mar 26, 2022 18:23 IST

Diagnosing paediatric TB a major challenge

Even today, diagnosing paediatric TB continues to be a major challenge as children struggle to produce sputum- the specimen which allows simple detection of the bacterial infection (Hindustan Times)

Updated on Mar 23, 2022 15:05 IST

Mumbai Covid hospitalisations at all-time low

Mumbai was the epicentre of the first and second waves in the country. The third wave, which began in the third week of December 2021, peaked in the city on January 7 this year with 20,971 cases, a day on which 1,395 Covid-positive patients were hospitalised. (Sanjeev Verma/HT PHOTO)

Updated on Mar 18, 2022 17:39 IST

As countries battle new surge of Covid: Experts believe a fourth wave seems unlikely in India

Countries like Germany, South Korea, Vietnam and Thailand are among those that are currently experiencing a surge in cases. (Bloomberg)

Updated on Mar 16, 2022 13:11 IST

Empty beds: 300 critical Covid patients in state

Doctors said that the small number of patients who are critical include those who are seriously immunocompromised and those with incidental Covid (Praful Gangurde)

Updated on Mar 13, 2022 17:02 IST

Two years on, Mumbai has seen a million Covid cases and more than 16k deaths

As per the state’s latest data released on Thursday, Mumbai’s total Covid cases had touched 1,056,213 and deaths were 16,692. (Stock Pic)

Updated on Mar 10, 2022 18:02 IST

WHO consolidated guidelines to allow shorter TB treatment course for children

While the findings of the SHINE trial on shorter TB treatment course for children have been approved by WHO, it will depend on India’s Central TB Division to adopt them for implementation in the country. (Representational Image)

Updated on Mar 10, 2022 08:57 IST

Mumbai civic body BMC starts dismantling 4 of Mumbai’s 9 jumbo Covid-19 centres

Mumbai civic body BMC is dismantling four jumbo Covid-19 centres set up to tackle the rising cases of Covid-19 in Mumbai (Anshuman Poyrekar/HT File Photo)

Updated on Mar 9, 2022 12:02 IST

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