-PTI The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) will put up a complaint and suggestion box at its pharmacy on the hospital campus to check discrepancies in the distribution of medicines at less than half the price. The 24-hour pharmacy is expected to provide all medicines and surgical consumables prescribed by doctors to outpatients at a 56 per cent discount on the minimum retail price. “The pharmacist has been instructed to provide...
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BPL card holders to be treated free of cost at AIIMS by Abantika Ghosh
Poor patients will soon get free treatment at the country’s premier medical institute without having to run from pillar to post. The Institute Body of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Monday decided to give free treatment to all BPL card holders. AIIMS has been asked to prepare a proposal and submit it to the Union Health Ministry for sanction of funds under the plan head for the...
More »Shehla Masood murder: CBI doubles cash reward to Rs 10l
-The Times of India The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday doubled the cash reward of Rs five lakh to Rs 10 lakh for information on the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood, who was shot dead outside her house in Bhopal on August 16, 2011. Though the agency had registered a case against unnamed persons on September 3, 2011, it increased the reward money since the motive behind the murder...
More »Why are patients in cold outside AIIMS: SC
-The Times of India "The cold, not cancer, may kill me" - the TOI story on the pitiable condition of patients and relatives braving the biting cold in wait for a bed in All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) drew an anguished reaction from the Supreme Court, which on Friday asked the Delhi government to urgently set up a night shelter either inside or close to the prestigious hospital. A bench...
More »Harassment glare after Dalit campus suicides by Basant Kumar Mohanty
Manish Kumar could not take it any more. The harassment he had been suffering for three years only because he was a Dalit was showing no signs of abating. So, the IIT Roorkee student killed himself. That was on February 13 this year. Manish had been a third-year BTech student and was the only hope of his family, his shattered father Rajinder Kumar said. “Manish was my only son and the future...
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