Activists alleged that the draft bill, which seeks to replace the Maharashtra Nursing Homes Registration Rules, 2021, stripped patients of several hard-won entitlements Pune: Health rights groups alleged that the Maharashtra government’s newly tabled draft Clinical Establishments Bill, 2026, aimed at regulating private hospitals, diluted key patient protections and ignored lessons from the pandemic.Activists called…
The order was issued on a complaint filed by V Ashok Kumar from Kudappanakunnu in Thiruvananthapuram Thiruvananthapuram: The state human rights commission has ruled, in line with Supreme Court guidelines, that a criminal case can be registered against a private hospital only if an expert medical panel establishes that negligence has occurred.Commission chairperson Justice Alexander…
New Delhi: Resident doctors from AIIMS and VMMC & Safdarjung Hospital have written to President Droupadi Murmu, seeking her intervention in Sonam Wangchuk’s case, raising concerns over patient autonomy, medical ethics, constitutional rights and alleged use of force against protesters Monday.A day after AIIMS Resident Doctors’ Association (RDA) wrote to the President, VMMC & Safdarjung…
Guwahati: Gauhati high court has upheld the conviction of a 71-year-old doctor for outraging the modesty of a schoolgirl, ruling that groping a patient’s breasts cannot be part of a routine examination for menstrual problems, terming it “absurd”.The court of Justice Susmita Phukan Khaund, while hearing the convict’s appeal in the 17-year-old litigation, noted in…
The minister emphasised that senior doctors must be available during night shifts Shivamogga: Health minister UT Khader on Saturday announced major policy overhauls alongside an investigation into the controversial referral of a Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD) patient from McGann Hospital to Mangaluru.After a departmental review meeting in Shivamogga, the minister, ordered an inquiry, emphasising that…
3 min readMumbaiJun 9, 2026 01:47 AM IST The Bombay High Court on Monday directed the Maharashtra government to pay Rs 22 lakh in compensation to the widow and two children of a 50-year-old man who was killed by another patient while undergoing treatment at the state-run Yerawada Mental Hospital in Pune in November 2013….
NEW DELHI: The Delhi State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has upheld a finding of medical negligence against a Delhi-based surgeon and hospital after a patient continued to suffer from a kidney stone despite undergoing two surgery.The commission dismissed the appeal filed by Dr Rajnish Sharma and K.K. Surgical and Maternity Hospital, affirming an earlier order…
NEW DELHI: The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has held a surgeon guilty of gross medical negligence for removing a patient’s healthy left kidney instead of her diseased right kidney, an error that ultimately cost the patient her life. In its order dated May 18, a bench of President AP Sahi and Member Bharatkumar…
