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A day after a 44-year-old Indian-origin man died after waiting for hours in a hospital’s emergency room in Canada, his wife accused the Edmonton hospital of “killing her husband” by not providing timely medical help.In a viral video, Prashant Sreekumar’s wife said that the Grey Nuns Community Hospital neglected her husband’s condition even after he…
Mumbai local (Representative image) MUMBAI: An unusual scene of solidarity played out on Thursday at Sion Hospital as the family of a man who allegedly stabbed his neighbour multiple times in a moving train stood alongside the victim’s relatives.The incident occurred on Tuesday morning. According to police, Rajesh Arunvihari (21) attacked Siraj Shaikh (24) with…
Prashant Sreekumar (Image/X@yegwave) Prashant Sreekumar, a 44-year-old Indian-origin man died after waiting for hours in the emergency room of Edmont Hospital.He began experiencing intense chest pain while at work. A client drove him to Grey Nuns Hospital in southeast Edmonton, where he was registered at triage and asked to wait in the emergency room. His…
KULLU: A doctor at Shimla’s Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital (IGMC) was suspended on Monday after he brutally assaulted a patient, who protested at being called ‘tu’ and asked for some politeness. A video of the incident, shot by an attendant, shows a doctor in surgical mask repeatedly punching the patient, Arjun Panwar, 36,…
PILIBHIT: Days after a 14-day-old child’s parents alleged that he was deliberately dropped on the floor by staff at district women’s hospital in Pilibhit for not paying a bribe of Rs 5,000 for post-delivery procedure, the body was exhumed on Friday following the district magistrate’s (DM) orders of a “proper autopsy to ascertain the exact…
BHOPAL: Two months after TOI broke the story of how six children battling thalassaemia contracted HIV after receiving blood transfusions at govt hospitals in Jharkhand’s Chaibasa and Koderma, a similar incident has come to light in Madhya Pradesh. In the latest case, six thalassaemia-affected children, aged between 3 and 15 years, tested HIV-positive at a…
In Bengaluru, a 34-year-old man’s unexpected heart attack serves as a stark reminder of the urgent need for improved emergency response systems and greater community engagement. The delays in accessing medical care and the absence of prompt assistance from those nearby led to a tragic outcome. Heart attacks don’t wait. They strike suddenly, without warning,…
A Myanmar military air strike killed at least 31 people and wounded 68 at the general hospital in Mrauk-U in western Rakhine state on Thursday evening, said on-site aid worker Wai Hun Aung.The strike occurred as the junta wages a withering offensive ahead of elections beginning this month, AFP news agency reported.Conflict monitors say the…
Goa nightclub co-owner Ajay Gupta. NEW DELHI: Ajay Gupta — co-owner of Goa’s ‘Birch by Romeo Lane’ nightclub — was tracked down to a private Delhi hospital where he had allegedly checked in citing “spine-related issues” in a bid to buy time and evade arrest in the blaze that killed 25 people on December 6….
Blair Tickner (Screengab) New Zealand’s second Test against the West Indies took a frightening turn on Wednesday when pace bowler Blair Tickner was rushed to hospital after suffering a nasty shoulder injury, moments after producing the best spell of his international career. Tickner, who had already triggered a dramatic West Indies batting collapse, crashed to…
