Health Bulletin 2/ December/ 2024

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday announced that it will pronounce the sentencing order against AAP MLA Prakash Jarwal on March 17, 2025, after he was convicted for allegedly abetting the suicide of a doctor in south Delhi in 2020.

According to the PTI report, Special Judge Kaveri Baweja, who was scheduled to hear arguments on quantum of punishment on Friday, deferred the matter after being informed Jarwal had challenged his conviction before the Delhi High Court.

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Doctor Suicide Case: Delhi Court to sentence convicted AAP MLA on March 17

UP Govt Doctors Leave Jobs for Private Hospitals over Better Incentives, Work Flexibility

Lucknow: A concerning trend is unfolding in Lucknow's healthcare landscape, as more senior doctors from prestigious government medical institutes are resigning to join private corporate hospitals. This migration, particularly from institutions like King George's Medical University (KGMU), Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences (RMLIMS), and Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGI), poses a significant threat to the quality of healthcare services available to the public.

The establishment of corporate hospitals in the city has coincided with this trend, creating a competitive environment that offers financial incentives, improved work conditions, and greater flexibility—a combination that is proving hard for many doctors to resist. According to the Times of India, over the past five years, more than two dozen specialists have departed from these institutions, leading to a concerning shortage of experienced faculty.

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Better Incentives, Work Flexibility: UP Govt doctors quit job to join private hospitals

Surprise inspection reveals crisis at KC General Hospital

Bengaluru: A surprise inspection of the government-run KC General Hospital by the Lokayukta on Friday has exposed a range of severe violations and shortcomings, raising serious concerns about the quality of healthcare provided at the facility.

The inspection, carried out by Lokayukta BS Patil, along with Upa Lokayuktas B Veerappa and KN Phaneendra, revealed numerous shortcomings in hospital management, staff conduct, and patient care. This inspection was followed by frequent complaints from citizens and secret investigations into the hospital’s operating system.

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Bengaluru: Surprise inspection reveals crisis at KC General Hospital

Surgery undertaken without necessary skill, records manipulated! Delhi Doctors, Hospital ordered to pay Rs 48 lakh compensation for negligence

New Delhi: The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, New Delhi recently directed a city-based hospital and its doctors to pay Rs 48 lakh to a man who lost his wife due to alleged medical negligence by the treating hospital and its doctors. While the gynaecologist at the hospital was held guilty of undertaking the surgery (Diagnostic and Operative Hysteroscopy) without the necessary skills, the hospital was held liable for laxity in not ensuring the proper documentation of the events, progress notes, nursing notes and reports of the diagnostic tests and for manipulating and withholding the same. Another doctor at the hospital was held liable for uan nethical partnership with the gynaecologist and the hospital in manipulating the medical records

The history of the case goes back to 2013 when the patient was admitted to the city-based hospital to be operated on for Asherman's Syndrome by Diagnostic and Operative Hysteroscopy +D&C. The complainant, husband of the patient, was informed that the patient had developed some complications. After a few minutes, the doctors informed that they were unable to handle the complications developed during the surgery and for this, they were shifting the patient to Fortis Escorts Hospital, where the patient breathed her last.

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Surgery undertaken without necessary skill, records manipulated! Delhi Doctors, Hospital slapped Rs 48 lakh compensation for misconduct, negligence