Mean summer temp in state rose 1.2°C in 70 yrs: Study
Maximum temperatures during summers as well as prolonged stretches with temperatures above 40° Celsius have risen substantially over the past seven decades
After plane crash, Ahmedabad residents lined up to donate blood breaking records
Across Ahmedabad, hundreds echoed the same resolve. As news of the crash spread and fears of mass casualties intensified, people of Gujarat responded with quiet urgency. From teenagers to the elderly, office workers to homemakers, people rushed to blood banks across the city. In just five hours, the Red Cross centre at Navrangpura collected 550 units of blood, smashing all previous records for single-day, single-centre donations in the city. “It was one of the most heartwarming moments of my c...
42-year-old man from Beed undergoes rare small intestine transplant; organ airlifted from Delhi
The patient, Siddheshwar Dake, a resident of rural Beed in the drought-prone Marathwada region, had been suffering from worsening abdominal pain and gastrointestinal issues for more than two years. Despite consulting multiple hospitals, he received inconclusive diagnoses—ranging from ulcers to suspected malignancy. His condition continued to deteriorate until he was referred to the specialised liver, intestine, and pancreas outpatient department at Nanavati Max Hospital earlier in January. A det...
As blood banks in city run dry, patients left to fend for themselves
According to estimates, Mumbai needs an estimated 1,000-1,400 units of blood daily. But as of May 30, only 5,325 blood units and 65 single donor platelet (SDP) units were available across the city, which the State Blood Transfusion Council (SBTC) warned would last for only five-six days. The acute shortage began in the last week of May, largely due to a seasonal drop in voluntary donations during the summer holidays when many donors were away on vacation and regular blood donation drives in col...
From cancer wards to classrooms: Tata Memorial Centre helps 603 survivors with ₹2.83 crore in educational aid
Mumbai: At just 18, Payal Kumari from Bihar is already defying the odds. Diagnosed with ovarian cancer as a teenager, her life was put on hold as she underwent rounds of intensive treatment at the Tata Memorial Centre (TMC) in Mumbai. Today, she’s not just a survivor. She is pursuing a BTech in computer science at the United Institute of Technology in Coimbatore, supported for three consecutive academic years by TMC’s ImPaCCT Foundation. Her dream: to become a software engineer and help others f...
15-yr-old 1st in city to get latest heart valve
The boy had undergone corrective heart surgery as a newborn to relieve an obstruction in the right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT), the region of the heart where blood exits the right ventricle and flows into the pulmonary arteries. While the defect was addressed, doctors had to leave the pulmonary valve non-functional, resulting in chronic pulmonary regurgitation. Over time, this caused the right ventricle to enlarge and pump inefficiently. Recently, the boy began experiencing fatigue and redu...
72-year-old’s forgotten bile duct stent migrates, turns into stone inside liver after 10 years
A biliary stent is a small tube inserted into the bile duct to keep it open and ensure proper drainage of bile from the liver to the intestine, typically used to relieve blockages caused by stones, tumours or inflammation. Nalini Devidas Sawaskar, a resident of Dombivli, began experiencing persistent abdominal pain and vomiting late last year. Initially believed to be gastrointestinal distress, imaging at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital in Navi Mumbai revealed a startling discovery: two plas...
Nearly half of women who developed diabetes during pregnancy have abnormal blood sugar levels years later: KEM study
Of the 531 mothers tracked, 48.6% developed diabetes or pre-diabetes over time, challenging the long-held assumption that gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) resolves after delivery. Doctors warned that this under-recognised risk demands urgent attention, particularly in India, where diabetes is on the rise and postpartum care remains inconsistent and inadequate. GDM is a form of high blood sugar that develops during pregnancy due to hormonal interference with insulin. Its incidence is steadily...
Bizman loses vision after cataract surgery, alleges negligence
The businessman first consulted the doctors in December 2024. Despite disclosing his uncontrolled diabetes, he was pressured to undergo cataract surgery on his right eye, he told Hindustan Times. “I was worried about the risks. But they kept saying, ‘We’ve done surgeries on diabetics worse than you. Nothing will go wrong’,” he said. The first surgery was performed on December 31, 2024, after Gupta made an advance payment of ₹70,000. Although he experienced a poking sensation, constant discomfo...
KEM’s free rehab centre emerges as lifeline amid rising substance addiction
MUMBAI: At 24, a young auto driver from Dharavi found himself struggling with alcoholism. Over time, his dependence on booze took a toll on his family—his wife had to pawn her jewellery, their five-year-old son dropped out of school, and the burden of daily expenses pushed the household into financial hardship. After a serious accident and a long recovery, he turned to the de-addiction centre at KEM Hospital for help. Sitting by his bedside, his wife recalled, “Alcohol changed him. He wasn’t the...
Music, art therapy to debut at TMH’s ayurvedic cancer hospital
Mumbai: Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH) will offer art and music therapy to patients at its upcoming ayurvedic cancer hospital – the country’s first such – in Khopoli. The 100-bed hospital and research centre, likely to be completed by March 2026, will also encourage creative activities such as painting, drawing, and crafting in a bid to accelerate healing, uplift patient spirits, and redefine recovery beyond conventional treatment. Music, art therapy to debut at TMH’s ayurvedic cancer hosp...
Mumbai man’s eight-year battle with insurance firm gets him ₹16.5-lakh claim
Experts say the man’s case underscores the emotional and legal toll many policyholders face and highlights growing calls for reform in how insurers assess disability and settle claims. After a road accident in Hyderabad in 2017, Chetan Tolia, a jewellery businessman from Ghatkopar, underwent multiple surgeries, including a failed corneal graft and treatment for retinal detachment. The vision in his left eye was declared permanently and irreversibly lost. Under his personal accident policy with T...
Mumbai man’s eight-year battle with insurance firm gets him ₹16.5-lakh claim
Experts say the man’s case underscores the emotional and legal toll many policyholders face and highlights growing calls for reform in how insurers assess disability and settle claims. After a road accident in Hyderabad in 2017, Chetan Tolia, a jewellery businessman from Ghatkopar, underwent multiple surgeries, including a failed corneal graft and treatment for retinal detachment. The vision in his left eye was declared permanently and irreversibly lost. Under his personal accident policy with T...
Failing them again: Beds remain empty as one-stop centres for rape survivors under Nirbhaya Fund remain crippled with low referral, official apathy
A decade after the December 16, 2012, Delhi gang rape incident that shook the nation, the One-Stop-Centres (OSC) or ‘Sakhi’ centres, established with the Nirbhaya Fund set up by the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) to support women affected by violence, have failed to take off. An investigation revealed several challenges, including a lack of awareness, infrastructure, lack of coordination between departments, police apathy and hesitancy among women. At the nation’s financial...
Nandurbar: Several schemes on paper for women, but benefits yet to reach thousands
Along the backwaters of Narmada river, 25-year-old Tagali Laldas Pawara resides in Khadkya village, located in Akrani taluka of Nandurbar district, just 10 km from the Gujarat border. Last July, she delivered her second child at home. But even before the anemic Tagali could recover, within a month of her delivery, she had to join her husband in Gujarat to earn a livelihood in a sugarcane farm. Soon, the infant who was left behind with her in-laws developed pneumonia and succumbed to it on August...
In Nandurbar, with no proper treatment, sickle cell anaemia patients develop deformities, even die
Nandurbar district, which has a predominantly tribal population, has the most number of sickle cell anaemia (SCA) patients in the state. Despite having the highest number of cases of the life-threatening blood disorder, the district lacks basic health infrastructure, medicines and specialists to treat the disease.Without proper treatment, patients develop deformities and some even succumb, of which there are no records.Burshalal Vasane’s right leg is slightly bent inward and he walks with a stic...
Nandurbar’s floating dispensary, water ambulances struggle to stay afloat
Over the years, the Maharashtra government has taken several initiatives and poured funds to improve the medical infrastructure in Nandurbar district. Many of these projects, which were launched with much fanfare, however, cut a sorry picture today, among them a floating dispensary and water ambulances.Despite the state government’s efforts, Nandurbar, with a population of 16.46 lakh, has the lowest Human Development Index (HDI) in Maharashtra with health and economic disparities seriously affec...
Rs 6-crore Bilgaon PHC has no electricity, patients treated under torchlight
In the last two years, Nandurbar district has set up 11 newly-designed advanced primary health centres (PHCs). Worth Rs 6 crore each, each PHC is spread over 3,000 sq ft with a doctors’ quarter. However, the condition of these PHCs – meant to provide healthcare to the poorest and weakest sections of Nandurbar’s tribal population – is abject.One such PHC is the Bilgaon facility inaugurated in 2021. A year down the line, the centre still lacks basic health infrastructure like electricity.It has fo...
Relatives of students who died ‘due to ragging’ look for closure: ‘Doors are open, hoping my son will come home’
A mother in Assam who came to know that her son’s body had signs of a gunshot wound and a stab injury on the neck; a father in UP who gave up hope after pursuing his daughter’s death for three years; an elder brother in Telangana who remains hopeful that justice will be delivered.These are the searing stories that bring to life the number 78 — the count of students who died on campus allegedly due to ragging, between 2012 and 2023, according to data from the University Grants Commission (UGC) th...
UGC Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar: Weak implementation of anti-ragging regulations within institutions may give perpetrators safe passage
From regular advisories to follow-up action, the UGC is working on “continuous improvement” in its anti-ragging programme but it is also the responsibility of institutions to follow its regulations “in letter and spirit” to remove the menace, according to UGC Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar.“Addressing the root cause of the ragging menace is equally essential… Weak implementation of anti-ragging regulations within institutions may give the perpetrators a safe passage,” he said. Kumar was responding to...
Ragging deaths: Complaints spike, system stuck in grey zone, Supreme Court guidelines on paper
🔴 The video shows a boy on a cot with his hands and legs tied. A group of other boys is seen jabbing him with a sharp object, laughing while doing so, while the victim is heard crying. This clip is now the focus of a Kerala police investigation into an alleged case of ragging at a government nursing college in Kottayam — the latest reminder of a menace that continues to haunt the hallways of educational institutions across the country.Supreme Court guidelines to eradicate ragging from 15 years a...
