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Jalandhar Civil Hospital: Action against officials for medical negligence

August 18, 2012
Jalandhar civil hospital’s medical superintendent has been transferred and action against four others has been taken by the Punjab government in response to the death of an infant in the hospital last month. According to the …

Jalandhar Civil Hospital: Under govt scheme, father wasn’t supposed to be charged Rs 200!

July 28, 2012
While the nation rages about the inhumanity displayed in the Jalandhar Civil hospital case - a 5 day old was taken off the incubator because her father couldn’t arrange Rs 200 - the fact is that under the Union Government’s …

Jalandhar Civil Hospital: Neonatal services to be free in Punjab state hospitals

July 27, 2012
Two days after a new-born infant died in a Jalandhar hospital after being allegedly removed from an incubator as her parents could not deposit a fee of just Rs.200, the Punjab government announced that all neo-natal services in …

Jalandhar Civil Hospital: Failure to pay Rs 200 results in newborn’s death

July 27, 2012
That an indigent man lost his new-born girl because he couldn’t arrange Rs 200 is shocking.  The appalling incident took place in a government hospital at Jalandhar. Doctors took the premature infant (born on July 20) off the …

Jalandhar incubator death: Punjab Chief Minister orders high level probe

July 27, 2012
Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal ordered a high-level probe after the parents of a newborn alleged that their child died in the civil hospital in Jalandhar after hospital staff removed her from the incubator for non-payment of an …

Premature babies likelier to survive in neonatal ICUs

July 24, 2012
Premature babies have greater chances of surviving in high-level neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) than in general hospitals, and this benefit is considerably larger than previously reported. The likelihood that an extremely …