Health Bulletin 5/December//2022 - Video
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Here are the top health news for the day:
Andhra Pradesh Private Hospital under ED Radar: Irregularities worth crores of rupees found in Hospital Records
During its recent raid at a private hospital in Amravati, the Enforcement Directorate has found irregularities worth crores of rupees and collected incriminating evidence over alleged embezzlement of funds.
The ED raid has revealed that the hospital had collected large sums of money from COVID-19 patients in 2020-2021 through excess billing and it was not entered in the hospital records.
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After AIIMS, Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital faces hacking attack
After AIIMS Delhi, another centre-run Safdarjung Hospital became the victim of the cyber attack. The Safdarjung hospital officials said that, unlike the AIIMS cyberattack, the Safdarjung Hospital was not a ransomware attack and that the hospital's IP was blocked.
According to the officials, the hospital runs OPD services manually therefore it had not been severe.
The Vardhaman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital officials on Saturday said the hospital was under a cyber-attack, but the damage was not as severe as it had been for the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) hospital.
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After AIIMS, Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital Faces Cyberattack But Not Ransomware
MBBS student commits suicide, five people including Medical College Principal booked for allegedly harassing student
In a shocking incident, a first-year MBBS student belonging to Dalit Community recently committed suicide on Saturday by hanging himself to death in his hostel room at Firozabad Medical College.
On the basis of the complaint lodged by the deceased student's father, who alleged that the medical college administration was harassing him for being a Dalit, the police has booked five people including the Principal of the medical college in this connection.
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Alleged medical negligence in bariatric surgery: Forum exonerates Chennai Hospital, Doctor, dismisses Rs. 6 crore compensation case
The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has exonerated a doctor and a Chennai hospital from charges of medical negligence in obesity treatment by Bariatric Surgery of a patient who eventually died.
Presiding Member, Dr S. M Kantikar dismissed the case of medical negligence against Life Line Hospital and the doctor noting that the deceased patient's father, who prayed compensation of Rs 6 crore as punitive damages, failed to prove his case.
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