Key Nepal leader Koirala rushed to hospital
Swine flu panic spreads to 3rd Nepal district
November 9th, 2009 KATHMANDU – Hundreds of people flocked to hospitals for tests with swine flu like symptoms while public schools were shut down for three days in a third district in western Nepal after fears of an epidemic loomed large in the region following detection of the virus in school students and security forces. Myagdi district, adjacent to Baglung and Parbat, where the H1N1 virus was detected in nine samples taken from 12 people complaining of swine flu-like symptoms, came under scare after over 250 people rushed to hospitals with coughs, cold and other symptoms that may or may not be indicate of the virus.
Swine flu menace looms large over Nepal
November 6th, 2009 KATHMANDU – Though not yet having lost a patient to swine flu, Nepal Friday sounded an alarm after the discovery that the epidemic could be spreading in two districts in the west where school children and security personnel tested positive for the disease. Schools were closed in Parbat and its neighbouring district Baglung after viral fever raged in classrooms and 12 people tested positive for swine flu in Parbat.
Manipal hospital under fresh attack in Nepal
November 5th, 2009 KATHMANDU – The Manipal Teaching Hospital, run by India’s Manipal Group as a joint venture with the Nepal government, has come under fresh attack from locals, causing its outdoor unit for patients to be closed indefinitely. The 700-bed hospital in Pokhara, established in 1998 under the Manipal College of Medical Sciences, has shut down its outdoor services after two of its doctors were assaulted Tuesday over the death of a patient and local groups began demanding compensation.
23 seriously ill after eating jatropha seeds
October 31st, 2009 RAIPUR – As many as 23 students of a primary school were critically ill at a government hospital here Saturday, a day after they ate jatropha seeds and fell unconscious. The students, enrolled at a primary school based at village Khorpa in Raipur district, ate jatropha on their way home from school.
Some cry favoritism over Obama daughters’ swine flu vaccination, others say it’s good example
October 29th, 2009 more imagesmore imagesObama girls’ vaccine: Favoritism or good example?With Dad a world leader and Nobel Prize winner, Malia and Sasha Obama surely could have been first in line when vaccinations began for swine flu. They weren’t, the White House says.
Survival rates among American women after heart attack improves
October 27th, 2009 WASHINGTON – The number of younger women dying in the hospital after heart attack has significantly improved in recent years, say researchers from Emory University. Over the last decade several studies showed that younger women, but not older ones, are more likely to die in the hospital after myocardial infarction (MI) than age-matched men.
Theodore Sizer, a leading education reformer and former Ivy League educator, dies at age 77
October 22nd, 2009 Education reformer Theodore Sizer dies at 77BOSTON — Theodore Ryland Sizer, a leader in education reform who led Ivy League education departments, has died after a long battle with colon cancer. He was 77. His wife, Nancy Sizer, says the author and educator died at home in Harvard, Mass., on Wednesday night.
Plane makes emergency landing to save passenger
October 18th, 2009 CHENNAI – An Etihaad Airlines flight made an emergency landing at the Chennai Airport here Sunday to save the life of a passenger who had suffered a heart attack while the plane was in midair. The 55-year-old passenger Ismail flying from Abu Dhabi to Kuala Lumpur was immediately rushed to a private hospital from the airport.
Plane makes emergency landing after man suffers stroke
October 18th, 2009 CHENNAI – An Etihaad Airlines flight made an emergency landing at the Chennai Airport here Sunday to save the life of a passenger who had suffered a heart attack while the plane was in midair. The 55-year-old passenger Ismail flying from Abu Dhabi to Kuala Lumpur was immediately rushed to a private hospital from the airport.
11 Chhattisgarh tribals die after eating ox meat
October 6th, 2009 RAIPUR – At least 11 tribals died of food poisoning and about a dozen were battling for life in a hospital in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region after they reportedly ate half-cooked ox meat at a village feast, officials said Tuesday. The victims belonged to the forested Bandapal and Khurpai villages, over 300 km south of Raipur, located in the border area of Narayanpur and Kanker districts.
India’s neighbours debunk myths on reducing child mortality
October 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI – Poverty is the biggest threat to children’s lives and the main reason why babies are dying at an alarming rate everyday, most of the respondents of a global survey contend. However, poor countries such as Bangladesh and Nepal have debunked this as myth by drastically reducing their child mortality rate over the last few years.
When Chinese surgeons ‘forgot’ to operate on man in OT
September 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI – A Chinese patient, who was given an anaesthetic injection and taken into the operation theatre for a surgery, was wheeled back into his room only to find out that the doctors “forgot” to operate on him. Cao Longbao was to undergo a surgery to get three polypi removed from his intestines at a local hospital in Shanghai.
Veteran Congress leader Karunakaran hospitalized
September 10th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM – Four-time Congress Chief Minister of Kerala K. Karunakaran was admitted to the Sree Chithra Thirunal hospital here Friday following a case of fever.
Ramalinga Raju suffers cardiac arrest in jail, shifted to hospital
September 7th, 2009 HYDERABAD – Disgraced founder of Satyam Computer Services Limited B. Ramalinga Raju suffered cardiac arrest in a jail here Monday night and was rushed to a hospital.
Asian countries to meet over swine flu next month
August 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI – Health ministers from 11 Asian countries, including India, and World Health Organisation (WHO) experts are set to meet in Nepal in September to discuss swine flu preparedness with apprehensions that the influenza A(H1N1) virus may become more virulent during winter. The officials will participate in two high-level meetings – the annual meeting of the Health Ministers of the Region, and the 62nd session of WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia (Searo) – from Sep 7 to Sep 10 in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Key Nepal leader Koirala rushed to hospital
