Picture this, nearly 21,000 or 15% of the 1.5 lakh child deliveries in Mumbai are handled by the city’s three tertiary hospitals—Sion, KEM and Nair—alone, and by just over 100 doctors.
One of the three women doctors accused of abetting the suicide of Nair Hospital resident doctor Payal Tadvi (26) was arrested by Agripada police on Tuesday afternoon.
Dozens of privately run ambulances doubling as hearses outside public hospitals are driving the unregulated industry of transporting the dead in Mumbai, profiting from heartbroken families’ need to promptly take
Agripada police said Dr Siddhant Shah was arrested yesterday after the family of the 32-year-old victim, Rajesh Maru, told them that the radiologist was also present when the accident occurred.
The MRI suite has been locked since the accident. “Moreover, the cylinder is still stuck in the machine,” said a doctor.
Rajesh Maru, 32, who was carrying a liquid oxygen cylinder, was killed in the hospital on Saturday evening.
Around 80% of the 3,000 beds allocated for monsoon diseases at civic hospitals—tertiary as well as peripheral— are currently occupied by dengue, malaria and fever patients
Falling is a routine part of childhood, but a random fall he suffered eight years ago while rushing to school with friends came back to haunt Bhiwandi youth Shahfahad Siddique recently.
Get updates on your preferred social platform
Follow us for the latest news, insider access to events and more.
