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Patients line up outside Lok Nayak Hospital amid relentless case surge

Family members on their phones as they react to the death of a relative outside Lok Nayak hospital on Sunday afternoon.
Updated on Apr 19, 2021 05:30 am IST

‘Reserve 80% ICU beds for Covid patients’: Delhi govt to private hospitals

To increase the number of ICU beds, the government had first directed its own hospitals - Lok Nayak, Guru Teg Bahadur, and Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital - to scale up the number of ICU beds as well.
Updated on Sept 14, 2020 08:40 am IST

More than 700 have been administered plasma therapy for Covid-19 in Delhi

Convalescent plasma therapy uses the blood component plasma that has virus-fighting antibodies from a patient who has recovered from Covid-19 to a person still fighting the infection to aid their immune system.
Updated on Aug 12, 2020 12:27 am IST

More than 700 have been administered plasma therapy for Covid-19 in Delhi

Convalescent plasma therapy uses the blood component plasma that has virus-fighting antibodies from a patient who has recovered from Covid-19 to a person still fighting the infection to aid their immune system.
Updated on Aug 11, 2020 11:46 pm IST

Re1 crore ex-gratia for family of Lok Nayak doctor who died of Covid-19

Dr Aseem Gupta had joined Lok Nayak hospital’s anesthesia department in 2004
Updated on Jun 30, 2020 03:55 am IST

Plasma therapy helps stabilise Covid patients, shows trial at Lok Nayak

The data reinforces the promise of plasma therapy, a process in which blood rich in antibodies from a Covid-19 recovered patient is transfused into the body of someone still struggling with the virus, in helping avert deaths due to the viral disease.
Updated on Jun 30, 2020 03:36 am IST

Arvind Kejriwal hails Lok Nayak hospital’s services in Covid fight

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal
Updated on Jun 26, 2020 02:24 am IST

At Lok Nayak, patients’ families wait hours for update on their condition

The hospital also has 64 ventilators, the maximum at any single Covid facility in Delhi. Over 78% of the ventilators at the hospital are under use.
Updated on Jun 23, 2020 05:45 am IST

Patients in Lok Nayak’s Covid-19 ward abuse, threaten doctors

Doctors and other medical staff seen in PPE outside emergency ward of Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan (LNJP) Hospital, in New Delhi, India.
Updated on Apr 16, 2020 03:40 am IST

IMA strike call will not affect healthcare services in Delhi

All the doctors at government hospitals will stage protests and work with black badges and black ribbons on Wednesday.
Updated on Jul 31, 2019 11:18 am IST

Services hit across Delhi-NCR as private doctors join protest

On Monday, the medicine ward at Safdarjung hospital was almost deserted. It is usually overcrowded and patients have to lie on gurneys and on the floor in the corridors.
Updated on Jun 17, 2019 11:14 pm IST

Quit my job to feed people: Rahul Verma of the Uday Foundation

Rahul Verma aims to tackle mental health and the well-being of the old after the #Udayfightshunger campaign.
Published on Apr 22, 2019 02:08 pm IST

Poll body officer injured as kite string slits throat

“We have registered a case and have sent the kite string to forensic lab to ascertain if it’s a Chinese manjha or locally made,” said a police officer.
Updated on Apr 22, 2019 08:14 am IST

Delhi woman who killed her kids booked, police check claim of domestic abuse

The woman threw her son first from the terrace on the road and then her daughter on the roof of the adjacent yellow building on Monday.
Updated on Mar 27, 2019 07:08 am IST

Reports of burn injuries in Delhi halved before Diwali; doctors credit Supreme Court cracker ban

The Supreme Court has ordered the sale and use of only green and low emission firecrackers in the National Capital Region.
Published on Nov 07, 2018 08:28 am IST

Lok Nayak hospital runs out of HIV medicines, shortage across city

The drugs are centrally procured for the entire country by the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO).
Published on Aug 29, 2018 02:19 am IST