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The Health Secretary of Odisha Arti Ahuja on Friday requsted the Home Department to establish police outposts at all government hospitals across the State to provide 24 hour safety and security to doctors and other medical staff. In this…

Bhubaneswar, Nov 16: Orissa High Court on Monday asked the Odisha Health Secretary to appear in person before the bench in the next hearing on Tuesday over the Sardar Rajas Medical College issue. The court asked the Odisha government to…

Bhubaneswar, Sep 19: The numbers of dengue affected people have been increasing in Odisha. The number of cases in the state rose to 481 as per the data of the state government. To review the dengue situation in the state, Odisha Health…

Bhubaneswar, Sep 16: The Odisha government on Wednesday said it was well prepared, and there was no panic-like situation yet, following the first dengue related death of the year in the state. Hemanta Jena (32), who was living in Dwarka…

Bhubaneswar, Sep 8: The Odisha government on Tuesday said there was "no clinical negligence" committed at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Post-Graduate Institute of Paediatrics at Cuttack in connection with the spurt of infant deaths in past…

Bhubaneswar, Sep 7: The fact-finding committee headed by Director of Medical Education and Training (DMET) Prof Prakash Chandra Mohapatra today handed over  a report on the death of infants at Sishu Bhawan to Odisha Health Department.…

Doctors not reporting for duty at government-run hospitals and those who did not respond to the notices sent to them would face departmental proceedings, Odisha Health Minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak said on Saturday. "We would initiate…

Acknowledging that maternal mortality rate in Odisha is quite higher against national average due to unsafe abortions; the state government has decided to set up more maternal termination of pregnancy centres (MTPs) by 2017.  Addressing at…