Wockhardt plans to sell four hospitals outside Mumbai
MUMBAI: After selling the major hospital chains to Fortis nine years ago, the Habil Khorakiwala-promoted Wockhardt Hospitals plans to sell four of its seven residual hospitals located outside Mumbai. The…
Rs 16 Crore worth of drugs wasted at Chennai’s Rajiv Gandhi Hospital
Rs 9.34 crore worth of life-saving immune suppressants has been wasted at India’s one of the largest organ transplant centers, Chennai’s Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital. The orders were placed…
Fortis will grow stronger under IHH ownership: Singh brothers
NEW DELHI: Former Fortis promoters, Singh brothers Friday said the hospital chain will grow stronger under the new ownership of IHH Healthcare. Similarly, Munjals-Burmans combine which did not participate in…
Malaysia’s IHH trumps Manipal to win Fortis Healthcare bid at Rs 170/share
The Board of Directors of Fortis Healthcare Limited has selected the binding investment proposal from Malaysia’s IHH Healthcare Berhad to invest Rs 4,000 crores by way of preferential allotment at…
At Sion hospital, ‘palatable’ oral pellets for HIV+ kids
MUMBAI: The long-standing demand for a more palatable form of HIV medicine for infants has finally been met with the National Aids Control Organisation (NACO) rolling out oral pellets in…
How these volunteers are helping poor patients find beds at hospitals
NEW DELHI: There are over 650 beds reserved for the poor in private hospitals that have got land on concessional rates in Delhi. But nearly 150 of them are always…
Tumour that made Iraqi kid grow faster removed
NEW DELHI: In a rare surgery, doctors at a private hospital in Faridabad recently removed a hormone producing tumour that made Hasan, a four-year-old Iraqi boy, look older — his…
Singh brothers may have taken fresh loans from Fortis to repay funds diverted from hospital chain, company says
NEW DELHI: In a new finding related to allegations the Singh brothers diverted nearly Rs500 crore from Fortis Healthcare, the group is now suggesting the ex-promoters repaid some of this…
Untreatable infections caused 2 of 3 newborn deaths in big city hospital
NEW DELHI: In a grim reminder of the threat posed by antibiotic resistance, data released by one of Delhi’s biggest children’s hospitals, Chacha Nehru Baal Chikitsalaya (CNBC), reveals that two…
One year old Tanzanian boy leapt to life, thanks to Indraprastha Apollo
New Delhi: Surgery was the only option and chance of survival of one year old boy from Tanzania was 50/50. It took the nerve of the surgeon of Indraprastha Apollo…
