A hospital trust is investigating reports staff may have “inappropriately” accessed the medical records of the three people killed in the Nottingham attacks. Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both 19, and Ian Coates, 65, were stabbed to death by Valdo Calocane in the city in June 2023. Dr Manjeet Shehmar, medical director at Nottingham University … Read more
Michelle Roberts Digital health editor, BBC News BBC More than 100,000 women are believed to have had mesh implants fitted between 2007 and 2015 Women harmed by pelvic mesh implants are still waiting for government compensation a year after a major report called for urgent action. Patient safety commissioner Dr Henrietta Hughes, who made that … Read more
Chief Minister M.K. Stalin addresses the Assembly. Photo: DIPR A Bill to amend the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Women (Amendment) Act, 1998, which was tabled in the Assembly by Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Friday, sought to legally restrain persons accused of harassing women from contacting them. The Bill sought to incorporate Section … Read more
The Delhi High Court said not providing such victims/survivors with required medical treatment is a criminal offence and all doctors, administration, officers, nurses, paramedical personnel etc., shall be informed of the same. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Taking a serious note of the fact that survivors of sexual violence and acid attacks face difficulties … Read more
Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra during a meeting with the families of the victims of violence in Sambhal, in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: PTI Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday (December 10, 2024) met families of the victims of violence in Sambhal at his 10 Janpath … Read more
State and Central forces during an operation following the heinous attack on civilians some days back, in Jiribam, Manipur. | Photo Credit: PTI The autopsy reports of the remaining three victims of the Jiribam killings showed brutal injuries, multiple bullet wounds and severe trauma, officials said on Wednesday. The post-mortem reports of two women and … Read more
Family photo Widow Samantha Morris says she feels “pain and sadness” being a single parent to three children The wife of a motorcyclist who could have been saved after a crash, had it not been for an ambulance delay, has spoken of her pain at being a widow aged 28. Aaron Morris, 31, died about … Read more
A bulldozer is being used to demolish the illegal construction. File | Photo Credit: PTI Supreme Court on Wednesday (November 13, 2024) lashed out at illegal demolitions of private property, homes of accused persons and held that compensation must be given to victims of illegal demolition. The Supreme Court held that the State cannot usurp … Read more
The State Cabinet which met on Wednesday decided to sanction a relief amount of ₹4 lakh each from the Chief Minister’s Distress Relief Fund to the kin of four persons who died following the accident at Anjoottambalam Veerarkavu Bhagavathy temple, Neeleswaram, Kasaragod, when a stash of fire crackers caught fire Sanitation workers A sum of … Read more
Police personnel with several persons arrested in connection with the recent killing of a youth at Maharajganj area during communal violence, at a police station in Bahraich district, on October 18, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI The wife of the man shot dead in Bahraich on Friday (October 18, 2024) said she will get justice … Read more