Kerala health department on Saturday began a probe into 'mass Caesarians' performed on pregnant women in a brief two-day span in a government hospital in Alappuzha, allegedly to suit the 'holiday'......
Measures to check the spread of chikungunya fever were on in full swing in the worst-hit Alappuzha in Kerala, even as reports said five more persons died of the viral fever in the district on......
Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss on Friday confirmed that the disease outbreak in Cherthala taluk of Kerala was chikungunya and assured Central assistance to the Kerala government to tackle......
The outbreak of chikungunya, claiming 86 lives in Alappuzha and other parts of Kerala, has exposed the weaknesses of the public health care system in the state, which used to boast about it for......
Kerala has used the Centre's Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana to the advantage of its government hospitals, says Sreelatha Menon. Workers in the taluk hospital in Cherthala in Kerala got an......