GBA provision to appoint ward committee members draws citizens’ ire

GBA provision to appoint ward committee members draws citizens’ ire

V. Ravichandar, Bengaluru Restructuring Committee member, says allowing GBA to nominate ward committee members is against the spirit of the 74th Amendment relating to decentralisation. | Photo Credit: file photo In what may contradict the spirit of decentralisation and the 74th Amendment to the Constitution, the Greater Bengaluru Governance (GBG) Bill 2024 has proposed granting … Read more

Woman evicted from NHS hospital ward after being stuck for 18 months

Woman evicted from NHS hospital ward after being stuck for 18 months

Adam Eley and Alison Holt, social affairs editor BBC News BBC Jessie, her face blurred for privacy, in the hospital bed where she lived for 18 months “I feel very angry, upset, worthless, and like my mental health and my life does not matter,” says Jessie, propped up in a hospital bed. She is recording … Read more

Oldham hospital stabbing: Nurse attacked in acute medical ward

Oldham hospital stabbing: Nurse attacked in acute medical ward

Geograph/David Dixon The staff member, aged in her 50s, was attacked at Royal Oldham Hospital A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a nurse was seriously injured in a stabbing at a hospital. The woman, aged in her 50s, was left with life-changing injuries in the attack at Royal Oldham Hospital’s … Read more

Special ward for Adivasi patients to be built in Ooty medical college hospital: T.N. Health Minister

Special ward for Adivasi patients to be built in Ooty medical college hospital: T.N. Health Minister

Government Medical College Hospital in Udhagamandalam. File | Photo Credit: M. Sathyamoorthy Tamil Nadu Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ma. Subramanian, said that a separate ward for tribal patients will be constructed at the Government Medical College and Hospital in Udhagamandalam. The Minister said that the construction of the ward was announced by Chief … Read more

Four two-wheelers gutted in fire at ward councillor’s house at village near Arakkonam town

Four two-wheelers gutted in fire at ward councillor’s house at village near Arakkonam town

The two-wheelers that were destroyed in the fire at Melapulam village in Ranipet on Thursday. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Four two-wheelers were gutted in a fire in front of a house at Melapulam village, near Arakkonam town, in Ranipet on Thursday. The police suspect an electrical short circuit might be the reason for the … Read more