Image used for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The Cyber Crime Unit in Hyderabad has arrested three men for allegedly running a digital arrest racket that swindled a 71-year-old resident out of ₹1,92,50,070 between November 7 and November 14. An officer from the wing said that the victim was threatened with a … Read more
Andrew PickenBBC Scotland Getty Images Staffing shortages and a “culture of mistrust” led to delays and patients being harmed at one of the busiest maternity units in the UK, a review has found. An inspection of maternity care at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh said some women waiting for labour to be induced had experienced … Read more
Anna Collinson, Jo Adnitt & Hannah KarpelBBC News Investigations Supplied A worker photographed by a patient who said they were sleeping during a one-on-one observation Staff at a specialist eating disorder unit have been photographed sleeping when they should have been looking after patients who were at risk of harming themselves. There were multiple “unsafe” … Read more
Marie-Louise Connolly Health correspondent, BBC News NI BBC Hannah Farrell was a nurse at the Children’s Cancer Unit until she resigned in 2019 A whistleblower who resigned from the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children over staff shortages has said the system left her broken, disillusioned and burnt out. Hannah Farrell, who left the Children’s … Read more
Matthew Hill West of England health correspondent BBC One of the walls of the unit was damaged during an incident earlier in the year Nurses have been assaulted and “punched in the face” amid violent behavioural problems at a hospital’s children’s unit, staff have told the BBC. Since April, nurses at the Great Western Hospital … Read more
Marie-Louise Connolly, Denise O’Connor and David Hunter BBC Spotlight BBC Shelley Browne was diagnosed with postpartum psychosis after Ruby’s birth A new mother who was detained in a psychiatric hospital for five weeks says she “felt like a prisoner” because she was separated from her baby. Shelley Browne, who had postpartum psychosis, was admitted under … Read more
Fire breaks out at incense sticks manufacturing unit A 54-year-old owner of an incense sticks making unit at Rasalapakkam village near Katpadi in Vellore escaped unhurt after fire broke out in the unit on Tuesday, resulting in thick smoke in the area. Police said that it was around 5 am when V. Mahalingam, owner, went … Read more
Rat miners and other rescue team personnel dewatering the areas where anomaly was identified by the NGRI GPR unit inside the collapsed SLBC tunnel | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Rescue teams are now scouting the areas zeroed in on by the NGRI’s Ground Probing Radar, which have found an anomaly on the surface inside the … Read more
Bengaluru: The February hack at UnitedHealth‘s tech unit Change affected the personal information of 100 million people, the U.S. health department‘s website showed, making it the largest healthcare data breach in the country. UnitedHealth has previously said that hackers potentially stole a third of Americans’ data in one of the worst hacks to hit the … Read more
A report about the neonatal unit where Lucy Letby worked was only shown to parents in full eight years after it was written, a public inquiry has heard. An external review was commissioned in September 2016 after consultants at the Countess of Chester Hospital voiced their concerns about the serial killer. A public version of … Read more