Directorate of Health Services

Panel to frame guidelines on post-mortem cases involving organ transplants

September 23, 2014 12:54 am

The committee will comprise forensic experts, transplant surgeons and government officials.

Six district hospitals to now have mental health facilities

September 11, 2014 10:40 am

According to officials, each district hospital will now be given a separate 20-bed ward for mentally challenged patients.

Cadaver transplant gets short shrift in state hospitals

August 28, 2014 12:23 am

Fudged autopsy report prompts court to recommend videography

October 23, 2013 5:49 am

The doctor who conducted the autopsy of the victim said the death was “unnatural or homicidal” when she had died of natural causes.

Cadaver donations see rise in state

April 16, 2014 4:08 pm

Efforts made by the government since last year to increase organ donations by introducing a set of measures seem to have borne fruit,with the number of cadaver organ transplants witnessing almost a two-fold increase in the state.

Directorate of Health Services to register hospitals with ICU-OTs

September 19, 2012 5:28 pm

The government will involve NGOs for awareness campaign.

DHS,pharma firm under CBI scanner

May 20, 2012 2:17 am

The Directorate of Health Services and a private pharmaceutical company are under the CBI scanner for alleged “criminal conspiracy” in purchase of a commonly used injectable antibiotic.

CBI unearths medicine supply scam,files case

February 28, 2012 12:00 am

The CBI has registered a case against officials of Directorate of Health Services,Delhi,for allegedly purchasing medicines at inflated price from Bangalore-based AstraZeneca India Pharma Limited

‘Wrong blood transfusion could not have caused Deepti’s death’

January 04, 2012 12:19 am

Even as a committee report has revealed that blood of the wrong group was administered to a patient in Jaslok Hospital,medical experts have said that incorrect transfusion would not have lead to her death almost two months later.

Two more die of H1N1 in Kerala

July 28, 2011 11:21 am

Two people died of H1N1 influenza in Kerala taking the number of deaths due to the virus to eight.