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    Missing TLD safety badges expose Sion staff to radiationMetros
    Missing TLD safety badges expose Sion staff to radiation

    Believe it or not, but students and 34 staff members from the BMC-run Sion Hospital’s cardiology department are...

    20 Sept 2016 2:20 AM IST

    A ward at Acworth Municipal Hospital for LeprosyMetros
    City’s only leprosy hospital has no doctors

    The BMC- run Acworth Municipal Hospital for Leprosy, the only hospital of its kind in the city, houses 80 persons that...

    17 Sept 2016 1:24 AM IST

    Mahatma Phule to replace Rajiv Gandhi in health schemeMetros
    Mahatma Phule to replace Rajiv Gandhi in health scheme

    State’s mega health insurance scheme Rajiv Gandhi Jeevandayee Arogya Yojana will be re-christened after 19th...

    17 Sept 2016 1:21 AM IST

    File photo of JJ HospitalMetros
    JJ Hospital’s CD move irks patients

    A move by JJ Hospital to cut costs hasn’t gone down too well with patients who’ve suffered a great deal of...

    15 Sept 2016 2:24 AM IST

    File photo of a woman during a fumigation operationMetros
    Dengue cases on rise in city

    Experts have attributed the spurt in dengue cases in the city — with seven deaths reported since August and nearly...

    15 Sept 2016 2:11 AM IST

    File photo of the area outside the morgue at Sion HospitalMetros
    Pollution control board to serve notice on Sion Hospital

    The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) will on Friday serve a notice on the civic-run Lokmanya Tilak Municipal...

    15 Sept 2016 2:08 AM IST

    The conjoined twins Gurfan and MohamedMetros
    1.5 month-old conjoined twins celebrate Eid al-Adha

    Sion resident and mother of conjoined twins born on July 27 at Sion civic hospital, Shahin Khan (26), celebrated Eid...

    14 Sept 2016 7:32 AM IST

    Shatabdi Hospital blamed for baby’s deathMetros
    Shatabdi Hospital blamed for baby’s death

    A man has alleged that Kandivali’s Shatabdi Hospital’s ‘negligence’ has resulted in the loss of...

    14 Sept 2016 7:31 AM IST

    Mortuary’s leaking drain pipes pose risk of infectionMetros
    Mortuary’s leaking drain pipes pose risk of infection

    Notwithstanding that the mortuary at the civic-run Sion hospital is handling more bodies than it can at any given time,...

    14 Sept 2016 2:01 AM IST

    The new notice that has been put up at Sion HospitalMetros
    Sion Hospital accepts only local dog bite victims

    In violation of rules for civic-run hospitals, Sion Hospital has, since Sunday, stopped treating dog bite patients from...

    13 Sept 2016 2:20 AM IST

    A general view of Deonar abattoir’s bakra mandi. (Photo: Shripad Naik )Metros
    12,000 goats fall sick at Deonar abattoir

    Around 12,000 goats have been kept separately at the Deonar abattoir after they fell sick even as the civic-run...

    12 Sept 2016 2:02 AM IST

    A buyer examines a goat ahead of Id-al-Adha. (Photo: Shripad Naik)Metros
    Authorities face hurdles in plan to upgrade slaughterhouse

    Despite a one-year-old plan to upgrade the Deonar abattoir, which at present is responsible for at least half of the...

    12 Sept 2016 2:00 AM IST

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