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Ruia hospital under the scanner for infants’ deaths
Authorities are looking in to the possibility of negligence as the cause of the death of the children at S.V.R Ruia Government General Hospital, Tirupati . Chittoor district health officials visited...
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AP infants’ deaths: Medical negligence ruled out
The controversy hit SVR Ruia hospital has been given a clean chit by a high-level team of doctors, who ruled out medical negligence. Recently, 11 infants had passed away in the hospital. The committee...
View ArticleFive more infants perish at Ruia hospital
It seems that the SVR Ruia Government General Hospital is still not off the hook. In a shocking incident five more babies died in the children’s ward of the hospital on Sunday, taking the toll to 14...
View ArticleForum formed by MPs to help improve child survival
A group of parliamentarians on Friday announced forming of a forum to improve child survival in India, after India reported one-fifth of global deaths caused by pneumonia and diarrhoea among children....
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Are our policies to fight child malnutrition deeply flawed?
Are we making the wrong choices in battling child mortality? That seems to be the case as one of the largest live studies on child malnutrition showed that the normal standard policy followed by many...
View ArticleHow WHO plans to eradicate pneumonia and diarrhoea by 2025
In the ever crowded city of Mumbai, pneumonia seems to be taking a toll on its residents. According to Dr Deepak Ugra, leading paediatrician and former head of the Indian Academy of Paediatrics,...
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