Now in Haryana dial 102 for ambulance

November 15th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - The government-run hospitals in Haryana will soon have closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras to monitor interaction between doctors and patients. These cameras would also record the behaviour of doctors with the patients in the out-patients departments (OPDs), chief parliamentary secretary for health Ram Krishan Fouji said Sunday.

November 13th, 2009 GUWAHATI - Doctors on telephone and attending to emergency calls and providing possible life saving tips or guiding a patient to the right hospital or a specialist - this is what will exactly happen in Assam beginning January. The Assam health department would launch an emergency helpline 104 - just dial 104 and a doctor would attend your call to help a patient in distress.

November 13th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - As many as 85 students of a government-run primary school in Karnal district of Haryana were Friday discharged from a hospital, the state's health minister said. The students had fallen ill Thursday after they ate the seeds of a Jathropa tree in their school campus in Chundipur village in Karnal, 110 km from here.

November 4th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - The Haryana government Wednesday gave a cheque of Rs.200,000 to the aggrieved family of the 32-year-old man who died Tuesday at the gate of a hospital here because the prime minister's security hindered his access to timely medical treatment. "Ambala deputy commissioner (DC) has delivered a cheque of Rs.200,000 to the family members of Sumit Prakash Verma.

November 4th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - The Haryana government Wednesday gave a cheque of Rs.200,000 to the aggrieved family of the 32-year-old man who died Tuesday at the gate of a hospital here because the security for the prime minister's visit hindered his access to timely medical treatment. "Ambala deputy commissioner (DC) has delivered a cheque of Rs.200,000 to the family members of Sumit Prakash Verma.

October 22nd, 2009 Ambulances start charging extra for obese patientsTOPEKA, Kan. — As America battles the obesity crisis, ambulance companies increasingly are charging extra to transport patients who weigh several hundred pounds.

October 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - For the first time in two months, India reported no swine flu deaths, health authorities said Monday. But 169 new cases were reported from the country, taking the total number of people affected due to the flu to 12,043.

October 5th, 2009 SHIMLA - Three more people in Himachal Pradesh have tested positive for Influenza A (H1N1) virus, officials said Monday. Now the total number of swine flu cases in the state has reached seven.

October 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Seven people, including four from Maharashtra, died of swine flu Monday taking the toll in the country to 351. The number of H1N1 cases in India also crossed the 11,000 mark, union health ministry said.

September 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Six swine flu deaths, including two in Maharashtra, were reported Tuesday, taking India's toll due to the influenza A (H1N1) virus to 309, health authorities said here. The toll in Maharashtra, which has reported most deaths and flu cases in India, has now gone up to 120.

September 25th, 2009 SHIMLA - An MBA student in Himachal Pradesh has tested positive for Influenza A (H1N1) virus, making her the second case of swine flu in the state, a health department official said Friday. "Medical reports of an MBA student of Chitkara University have tested positive," nodal officer Vinod Mehta told IANS.

September 21st, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Haryana Governor Jagannath Pahadia continued to be in the hospital for the third day Monday after collapsing here Saturday during a function. Aides of the governor said some more tests were to be conducted on him and there was a possibility of him being discharged Tuesday.

September 20th, 2009 AMBALA - Oil oozing out of the playgrounds of two schools here in Haryana has forced the authorities to ask hundreds of students to vacate the premises. Ambala Deputy Commissioner Sameer Pal Srow has now asked public sector firms Indian Oil Corp and Hindustan Petroleum to study the perplexing problem.

September 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) are on a hunger strike to press for better health facilities in the campus after a first year MCA student died of an asthma attack while being taken to hospital with the lone ambulance not equipped with even the life-saving oxygen cylinder. The relay hunger strike, called by the students union, entered the second day here Saturday.

August 31st, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC) chief Kuldeep Bishnoi has been quarantined at his farm house in Haryana Monday with suspected swine flu symptoms, a party official said. Bishnoi is the son of former chief minister Bhajan Lal.