Patients

Samaswasam pension comes to a halt leaving indigent patients in distress

April 10, 2023

Samaswasam pension comes to a halt leaving indigent patients in distress

At present, around 9,000 persons are drawing the pension.

March 06, 2023
Several inmates stuck in govt mental health centres despite recovery

At least 164 inmates of three government-run mental hospitals across the state are forced to spend their lives within the hospital walls as they have been abandoned by their families.
December 12, 2022
These good Samaritans offer much-needed succour to patients in need

A ward boy named Sundaran and a senior citizen named Devassykutty are among the good Samaritans who take care of patients, some lonely or abandoned, who require personal attention in two hospitals in Kerala.
December 11, 2022
250 patients linger in government hospitals after relatives abandon them

Health Minister Veena George said the figures are as per a preliminary assessment, and many of them are staying at the hospitals for four to five months.
May 20, 2021
Fire in Thiruvananthapuram hospital canteen. Patients shifted to other hospitals

The shift was necessitated because the smoke from the canteen, which is squeezed behind the hospital, spread to the first and second floors of the hospital.
April 28, 2021
COVID-19: Thrissur woman, 78, dies after 4-hour hold-up in ambulance waiting for hospital admission

Fathima was diagnosed with COVID after she was taken to a private hospital at Engandiyur as she suffered from shortness of breath.
September 22, 2020
Kerala startup BestDoc raises $2.1mn to digitise healthcare sector

BestDoc is an Intelligent Patient Relationship Management (PRM) system for hospitals and other healthcare providers in the country.