Even though the King Edward Memorial Hospital announced its subsidised liver transplant programme,nearly a month ago,the hospital is yet to send an application for licence to the State Zonal Transplant Coordination Committee.
In an attempt to tackle H1N1 cases in the city,the civic hospitals will administer Tamiflu to suspected swine-flu patients,without waiting for confirmation reports.
The first showers are usually associated with getting drenched,and coming home to the regular chai pakodas. But for some nature enthusiasts,the onset of monsoon spells adventures.
Two nurses of Kasturba Hospital had complained of dizziness after taking the H1N1 vaccine on June 12. One felt faint immediately after the shot; the other complained eight hours later...
With monsoon making its annual visit,the residents of Pushpavihar Leprosy Colony in Dahisar are waiting for authorities to fulfill their 30-year-old promise of providing new homes to them.
An H1N1 patient was moved out of the ICU of Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital in Sion on Monday and kept in a room easily accessible to any visitor.
A day after the civic-run Kasturba Hospital received 2,000 doses of the indigenous H1N1 vaccine,doctors at the hospital admitted that the earlier batch of imported vaccines meant for vaccination of healthcare professionals remained untouched.
Forty-nine-year-old Dharmesh Shetty was apprehensive about his joint replacement surgery when doctors told him about the significant blood loss during the procedure.
Thirty-six-year-old Yasmeen Khan who travelled from Goregaon on Tuesday to get the ulcers on her feet operated at the Bombay Hospital was in for a disappointment after it was postponed to June 12 without prior notification.
