2012 was quite a year for India’s healthcare sector. While we finally managed to eradicate polio, incidents like Baby Falak’s torture and female infanticide shook us to the core. Also finally the government promised to …
Bollywood actor Aamir Khan is to meet Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot in connection with female foeticide cases highlighted by the TV reality show "Satyamev Jayate". "Aamir had expressed his desire to meet the chief …
He promised the truth and we got it. The horrifying truth about female foeticide and the perils of the girl child in India. Disbelief, horror, tears, smiles --- Aamir Khan evoked all this among his rapt audience as he dealt with …
While the nation rages and vents at the brutal treatment meted out to Falak and Afreen, the fact is that it is the standard treatment meted out to many girl infants. And it's not as if these incidents are occurring in some …
In another horrific incident which echoes memories of Falak and Afreen, a 10-day-old baby girl was found abandoned in the old jail complex in the city, the third such case in less than a fortnight, police said. The girl was heard …
Afreen, the three-month-old Bangalore girl who was battered by her own father as he wanted a son, died Wednesday after battling for life for several days, hospital authorities here said. "The baby suffered cardiac arrest at …
A Bangalore man who was hoping for a son was so angered by the birth of a girl child that he battered the three-month-old, who is now in a critical condition at a hospital, police say. Besides a severe head injury, the infant …
The body of baby Falak was Friday handed over her mother Munni by the AIIMS for the last rites of the battered two-year-old who died of cardiac arrest Thursday night after a grim battle with life for nearly 60 days, doctors …
After battling for her life for sixty days, baby Falak was declared dead at 9:40. "The baby died of cardiac arrest. She suffered cardiac arrest at 9 p.m. and was declared dead at 9.40 p.m," Deepak Agrawal, assistant professor …
The whole country mourns the death of baby Falak, the battered baby. Meanwhile, four thallasemic children between the ages of two and eight died due to suspected transfusion of blood of the wrong group at a government hospital in …
The two year old baby Falak lost her battle with life today at 9.40 PM at AIIMS. She suffered from a cardiac arrest, AIIMS doctors said on Thursday. She was fighting brain and chest infections after being admitted to the …
