Articles by Subhendu Maiti
Swine flu toll in Bengal now 8
The swine flu toll in the state rose to eight on Saturday after one more death in the city. A two-and-a-half-year-old baby, Anwesha Pramanik, from Joynagar in South 24-Parganas succumbed to the H1N1 virus at BC Roy Memorial Hospital for Children here. Anwesha is the third child to die of swine flu in the state this year.

Updated on Mar 01, 2015 12:48 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
City wants CM to get hilsa diplomacy right
If Bengal chief minister cosies up with Dhaka can hilsa be far behind? Chief minister Mamata Banerjee has been flooded with requests from numerous fish importers’, traders’ and market committees across the state to persuade Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to lift the ban on hilsa exports to India that Dhaka imposed in July 2012.

Updated on Feb 20, 2015 01:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Swine flu strikes city, 2 women test positive
Two swine flu cases were reported in the city on Monday. Both the patients are women. The condition of one, who recently visited Mumbai, is critical. They have been admitted to two private hospitals in the southern and eastern parts of the city.

Updated on Feb 10, 2015 10:04 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
State sounds alarm on drug-resistant TB
Every drug shop owner across the state will have to fill up a form recording details of tuberculosis (TB) patients and the concerned doctors’ names while selling medicines to treat the disease. The health department led by chief minister Mamata Banerjee has issued an order asking owners and retailers of medicine shops to following the directive.

Updated on Feb 02, 2015 03:22 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Fate of ESIC medical college in Joka in limbo
The future of the ESI-Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences and Research in Joka hangs in balance after the Mamata Banerjee government rejected the Union labour ministry’s offer to take over the administrative and academic operations as well as maintenance of the teaching hospital.

Updated on Jan 19, 2015 11:28 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Trauma centres: How public healthcare failed people
The rat poison-laced drugs that recently killed 15 women in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, have shone a spotlight on the pathetic state of public healthcare across India.

Updated on Nov 30, 2014 03:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times |
Ejaz Kaiser, Ruchir Kumar and Subhendu Maiti
Red alert at Bengal ports with eye on ships from Pakistan
Ships from Pakistan, especially those carrying cargo and fishing boats are under the radar of security agencies, as central agencies rang alarm bells recently of a possible terror threat.

Updated on Nov 05, 2014 11:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times | , Kolkata
Subhendu Maiti and Soumen DuttaBengal's first Ebola suspect admitted to hospital
Bengal's first Ebola suspect, 25-year old Aleek Das, was admitted to Raiganj district hospital on Sunday with symptoms high fever, muscle pain and vomiting.

Updated on Sep 01, 2014 11:03 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Bengal jute mills hit as Punjab won’t buy gunny bags
The beleagured jute industry in Bengal suffered another setback on Friday with Punjab, the highest consumer of jute bags – gunny bags in mill parlance – deciding not to buy about two lakh bales, or about 4% of Bengal’s annual produce.

Updated on Jun 29, 2014 12:01 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
MCI scraps 32% of MBBS seats to safeguard quality
The Medical Council of India (MCI) has scrapped an astonishing 32% of MBBS seats nationwide in its attempt to safeguard the quality of medical education. As a result, competition for the seats left will now be more cut-throat than ever before.

Updated on Jun 10, 2014 12:57 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Siemens threatens to pull out of Bengal’s largest transport project
German multinational giant Siemens has told West Bengal government it was pulling out of the state’s largest under-construction transport infrastructure project because of delays.

Updated on Feb 04, 2014 07:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Suchitra Sen passed away before daughter Moon Moon could reach hospital
Until 7.55am on Friday, Suchitra Sen was conscious and responding to treatment, and then suddenly had sharp dip in her heartbeat. Sadly, the actress passed away before her daughter could reach.

Updated on Jan 18, 2014 03:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Suchitra Sen remains critical, doctors say 'ventilator only option'
Doctors at Kolkata’s Belle Vue Clinic, where legendary actor Suchitra Sen was admitted three weeks ago, told HT there was little chance of improvement if the current line of treatment continued.

Updated on Jan 13, 2014 09:34 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Close to victory: India will officially be declared polio-free from today
A recent WHO report said pulse polio immunisation-awareness programmes are yet to gain momentum in Howrah and South 24 Parganas district, where about 2,000 polio booths are set up during each vaccination round to immunise children. Edit: Standing tall against polio | Fighting polio was toughest in Bihar, UP

Updated on Jan 13, 2014 08:46 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Panchla, Howrah
WB rape: series of police blunders may affect probe
The foetus removed from the victim during autopsy is in danger of decomposition and may not yield DNA for forensic purposes given the way the police have stored it- in the store room of Airport Police Station in Kolkata.

Updated on Jan 05, 2014 01:21 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
West Bengal govt to start training programmes for male nurses
The Mamata Banerjee government has decided to launch a training course for male nurses for the first time in the state.

Updated on Oct 08, 2013 03:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
TMC MLAs in scrap for top MCI post
The infighting in the ruling Trinamool Congress has come to the fore yet again. This time in the race for key posts in the Medical Council of India, the sole apex body regulating medical institutes across the country.

Updated on Oct 07, 2013 12:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Centre scanner on West Bengal stem cell unit
The sole state-run stem cell therapy unit at the School of Tropical Medicine (STM), the country’s oldest institute for treatment of tropical diseases, has come under the scanner of the Union government owing to the inadequate infrastructure required for the therapy.

Updated on Sep 30, 2013 12:39 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Kolkata: NRI buyers protest delay in completion of housing project
NRI buyers will stage a demonstration at the gate of the Kolkata West International City, India's biggest township project in Howrah demanding the immediate completion and handover of their apartments.

Updated on Sep 24, 2013 10:15 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
IAS officers lend support to Durga Shakti
Alarmed by the suspension of the young IAS officer, Durga Shakti Nagpal, by the UP government, bureaucrats in Bengal have urged the Centre to provide adequate safeguards for All India Administrative Services officers.

Updated on Sep 04, 2013 12:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
No toll likely for state govt buses on Vidyasagar Setu
The state transport department is likely to waive toll tax for state transport corporations’ buses and other government vehicles that will ply between Kolkata and Howrah town using Vidyasagar Setu.

Updated on Aug 28, 2013 11:45 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Govt to take stock of drug quality at fair-price shops
West Bengal health department will have a meeting with officials of fair-price medicine shops (FPMS) and government hospitals on August 23 to discuss the quality and the standard of medicines sold in these shops.

Updated on Aug 19, 2013 01:31 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Govt hurdles likely to delay reopening of Amri-dhakuria
At a time when Emami is planning to set up a 500-bed multi-specialty hospital under the AMRI brand in Rajarhat, the company is still grappling to get nod for reopening its Dhakuria unit.

Updated on Aug 16, 2013 12:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Flying eye hospital to land in Kolkata
The dream team in eye surgeries will operate on 100 patients free of cost inside a flying hospital, which will land at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Airport on September 9. The aircraft will be in the city for 15 days.

Updated on Aug 14, 2013 12:18 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Land value near new secretariat to hit roof
The value of land and flats along the Kona Expressway, Andul Road, GT Road and Shibpur will go up with the shifting of 28 departments, including the chief minister’s office, to Mandirtala’s HRBC Building in Howrah from Writers’ Buildings, feel ministers, city planners and developers.

Updated on Aug 12, 2013 11:54 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Transfer of SSKM doctor gives rise to controversy
A cardiologist has been sent to a hospital which doesn’t have a unit he specialises in.

Updated on Aug 05, 2013 01:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Pvt hospitals face govt heat
West Bengal may withhold licences if nursing homes do not form panel of doctors for quick declaration of brain-dead cases.

Updated on Aug 05, 2013 01:04 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Renewal of registration may become a must for docs
The West Bengal Medical Council (WBMC) is planning to bring a legislation in order to make the process of renewing registrations mandatory for doctors.

Updated on Aug 02, 2013 11:45 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Despite doctor crunch, CM wants new medical colleges
There is a shortage of about 2,000 docs, including 500 teachers, in state-run institutions.

Updated on Aug 01, 2013 01:06 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata
Rare kikuchi disease reported at SSKM hospital
For the first time in Kolkata, a 36-year-old woman was recently diagnosed with Kikuchi disease, a very rare acute disorder of lymph nodes that is usually seen among younger women.

Updated on Jul 26, 2013 12:24 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Subhendu Maiti, Kolkata