The state-run Nalanda Medical College and Hospital (NMCH) in Bihar has landed in controversy, after a specially abled patient undergoing treatment at the medical facility claimed that rats had bitten toes of his right foot while he was asleep.
The family members alleged negligence and foul play, while some doctors suspected that rats might have gnawed the eye.
The driver of a truck that ploughed into a religious procession killing at least 12 people, including seven children, in Bihar's Vaishali district was rescued from the mangled vehicle and arrested, a senior police officer said on Monday.
Some doctors were absent from duty for 20 years, others for 15, some for 12. About 64 doctors remained absent from duty for more than five years.
Covid deaths at home, on the way to hospital or in private centres are not being counted in Bihar's official list of dead.
Heavy downpour in the city has halted the normal life since Friday, as water-logging and traffic snarls were seen in several parts of the state capital.
A committee has been constituted by the authorities of the Nalanda Medical College and Hospital to probe the behaviour of boys, who allegedly entered the girls' hostel and misbehaved with them, on New Years' eve. NMCH Principal Dr C B Choudhry said that as per information received by him, a few stones were thrown on the doors of the girls' hostel late on Monday night, following which the girls complained to the police.
The extortionists -- who said they were legislators -- have asked the two doctors to cough up Rs 10 lakh.
The collision took place near Devdahan village under Dhanarua police station when the Minister of State for Rural Development was going to Patna and the youth was on his way home in Bir village under the same police station.
A staff nurse from a Bihar hospital begs the prime minister for her life as the state's medical staff continues to treat suspected COVID-19 patients without protective safety kits.
This is the seventh consecutive day when COVID-19 cases increased by more than 30,000.
'The available workforce is getting depleted.' 'We need to appoint doctors and frontline health workers immediately.'
'Both the governments and people have to recognise that this is a long race, not a short sprint.'
What worries health experts is that Bihar's testing rate per million is less than one-third of the national average of 6,622 tests per million, reports M I Khan.
Over 40 people died in rain-related incidents, majority of them in Uttar Pradesh, while incessant rainfall in Bihar left the streets of state capital Patna and other areas waterlogged and residences of at least two ministers marooned.
The disaster management department said that the state government has urged the Indian Air Force to send a helicopter for air-dropping of food packets and other relief material in marooned areas.
'On January 17, we had our first meeting with the Cabinet secretary.' 'Different secretaries belonging to different departments attended it.' 'It was only two weeks when China had said there is a new disease.' 'So, we gave the quickest response.'
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