Bihar Health Workers

A 55-year-old farmer who had facilitated return of his Bihar-based workers to their homes by air during COVID-19 pandemic died allegedly by suicide inside a temple in the Outer Delhi's Alipur area, police said on Wednesday.

An investigation has started after a video of two health workers from Bihar's Jamui district fighting and hitting each other surfaced online, officials said today.

Grassroots health workers at Bihar's Jamui district threatened to boycott vaccination duty after one of them was attacked by a hospital's stafffor not reporting to work for a day.

More than 500 doctors and health workers of the two leading hospitals in Patna - AIIMS and Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) - have been infected with COVID-19 during the ongoing second wave, sources said.

Attacks on health officials have peaked in Bihar, with four cases being reported across the state in the last 24 hours. Two of them took place in Bihar Sharif, the hometown of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. The government has appealed to the people to keep calm. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has been silent so far, unlike his counterparts in Maharashtr...

Health workers and the police officials who went to collect the blood samples of the suspected COVID-19 patients were allegedly attacked by a mob in Bihar's Munger.

Thousands across India fail to get the right medical care due to the lack of resources but sometimes a helping hand can turn around someone's life. Last month, NDTV reported the story of 17-year-old Anshu Mahto from Lakhisarai in Bihar who had been living on the street outside Delhi's AIIMS hospital with her parents for the last four months, waitin...

The bodies of nine Indian workers, who were killed in a road accident here, will be send back home in the next few days, Indian officials said.

"Aapke bacche ka tikakaran ka samay hai (It is time to get your child vaccinated)," beeps the voice message.From pregnant women to community health workers in remote districts of Bihar, Haryana and Rajasthan, to the tea growing adivasis of Nilgiri hills...

The residents of 15 villages have boycotted the polio vaccination to protest alleged lack of proper nutrition and other facilities to the children by the state-run Anganwadi Centres in Munger district, official sources said. Parents did not allow the health workers to vaccinate their wards during the ongoing polio vaccination campaign to protest ag...

A 55-year-old farmer who had facilitated return of his Bihar-based workers to their homes by air during COVID-19 pandemic died allegedly by suicide inside a temple in the Outer Delhi's Alipur area, police said on Wednesday.

An investigation has started after a video of two health workers from Bihar's Jamui district fighting and hitting each other surfaced online, officials said today.

Grassroots health workers at Bihar's Jamui district threatened to boycott vaccination duty after one of them was attacked by a hospital's stafffor not reporting to work for a day.

More than 500 doctors and health workers of the two leading hospitals in Patna - AIIMS and Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) - have been infected with COVID-19 during the ongoing second wave, sources said.

Attacks on health officials have peaked in Bihar, with four cases being reported across the state in the last 24 hours. Two of them took place in Bihar Sharif, the hometown of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. The government has appealed to the people to keep calm. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has been silent so far, unlike his counterparts in Maharashtr...

Health workers and the police officials who went to collect the blood samples of the suspected COVID-19 patients were allegedly attacked by a mob in Bihar's Munger.

Thousands across India fail to get the right medical care due to the lack of resources but sometimes a helping hand can turn around someone's life. Last month, NDTV reported the story of 17-year-old Anshu Mahto from Lakhisarai in Bihar who had been living on the street outside Delhi's AIIMS hospital with her parents for the last four months, waitin...

The bodies of nine Indian workers, who were killed in a road accident here, will be send back home in the next few days, Indian officials said.

"Aapke bacche ka tikakaran ka samay hai (It is time to get your child vaccinated)," beeps the voice message.From pregnant women to community health workers in remote districts of Bihar, Haryana and Rajasthan, to the tea growing adivasis of Nilgiri hills...

The residents of 15 villages have boycotted the polio vaccination to protest alleged lack of proper nutrition and other facilities to the children by the state-run Anganwadi Centres in Munger district, official sources said. Parents did not allow the health workers to vaccinate their wards during the ongoing polio vaccination campaign to protest ag...