August 21, 2015 04:35 IST
A team will visit the house of the disabled person and spend the first two hours in assessing the type and degree of the disability.
Fri, Aug 21, 2015August 20, 2015 04:50 IST
A proposal to build the garden was sent to the UT Engineering Department two months ago. The garden will be constructed behind Block C of RIMH in Sector 31. It will cost around Rs 40 lakh.
Thu, Aug 20, 2015August 19, 2015 02:26 IST
A few hours before the incident, another group of labourers had stopped the truck driver, Sarma Chaudhary, from urinating near they were cooking.
Wed, Aug 19, 2015August 18, 2015 08:26 IST
The report also questioned the hospital authorities on how did they manage with delay in supply of these and other consumables and why the purchase procedure was not started well in time.
Tue, Aug 18, 2015August 18, 2015 03:01 IST
A visit to new OPD on Monday revealed that patients continue to stand in long queues to collect their reports.
Tue, Aug 18, 2015August 17, 2015 01:59 IST
Mercury is present in hospitals, mainly in clinical thermometers and sphygmomanometers (instruments measuring blood pressure).
Mon, Aug 17, 2015August 17, 2015 01:50 IST
Earlier, a large number of cholera cases were reported from house number 700 to 853 and 1,600 to 1,700.
Mon, Aug 17, 2015August 14, 2015 02:13 IST
The evening OPDs are started to facilitate working class population and students.
Fri, Aug 14, 2015August 11, 2015 03:44 IST
Alleges four men followed her in bus to school, passed lewd comments, even slapped her once .
Tue, Aug 11, 2015August 10, 2015 03:52 IST
The health secretary also said that they would soon launch an online appointment system for people visiting the OPDs.
Mon, Aug 10, 2015August 10, 2015 03:45 IST
Residents of Manimajra blame the Municipal Corporation for their failure to provide clean drinking water to them.
Mon, Aug 10, 2015August 10, 2015 03:37 IST
‘There is a need to connect with people. The moment a person comes to know they are made by special children, their brand value will increase’
Mon, Aug 10, 2015August 08, 2015 04:11 IST
Chandigarh Newsline met several differently abled people to know the kind of problems they are facing in the city beautiful.
Sat, Aug 08, 2015August 08, 2015 02:37 IST
On August 4, six organs (two corneas, two kidneys, a liver and a pancreas) were retrieved from Pankaj’s body and used to save five lives.
Sat, Aug 08, 2015August 07, 2015 11:12 IST
The adviser visited the institute on Thursday morning. He appreciated the programmes run by the institute for the specially-abled children, but was taken aback when he went to the basement of the institute.
Fri, Aug 07, 2015August 07, 2015 11:04 IST
Regional Institute of Mentally Handicapped joint director claims no other UT in the country has 100 pc coverage of disabled people.
Fri, Aug 07, 2015August 04, 2015 02:43 IST
To operate from 4 pm to 7 pm for six days a week; five retired doctors to be recruited for this purpose.
Tue, Aug 04, 2015July 14, 2015 05:15 IST
The study examined the records of 195 patients with facial fractures in the tertiary care centre (PGI) in north India, from 2009 to 2013.
Tue, Jul 14, 2015July 09, 2015 00:00 IST
Renovation work begins, authorities claim the pharmacy will come up in seven-eight months
Thu, Jul 09, 2015July 08, 2015 05:12 IST
On the 53rd Foundation Day, Dr Y K Chawla, the PGIMER director, shares with Chandigarh Newsline the plans he has for the institute to make it more patient-friendly.
Wed, Jul 08, 2015July 04, 2015 03:04 IST
In 2014, the PGI administration filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the orders of the high court.
Sat, Jul 04, 2015June 23, 2015 03:30 IST
Every 15 minutes, the workers have to perform the task to manually rotate the waste that is burning inside the incinerator.
Tue, Jun 23, 2015June 23, 2015 03:26 IST
Each of PGI’s two incinerators has the capacity to burn 170 kg of biomedical waste an hour.
Tue, Jun 23, 2015June 19, 2015 03:54 IST
Last year, as per the data released by the health department, only 37.4 per cent pregnant women consumed 100 or more iron folic acid tablets.
Fri, Jun 19, 2015June 11, 2015 02:11 IST
Last year, while a total of 236 neo-natal deaths were reported in the city, the figure for maternal deaths stood at 18, which was double of what was reported in 2013.
Thu, Jun 11, 2015