Kolkata: For the first time in the history of Bengal, SSKM Hospital has conducted a heart transplant surgery on a 25-year-old youth, who had already...

By constructing a string of state-funded fully-equipped super-speciality hospitals, West Bengal is marking a paradigm shift in the imagination and delivery of healthcare in the country; discusses Pradip Chatterjee

Kolkata: The Dental Council of India (DCI) has written to the Union Health ministry urging it to lower the qualifying marks in the National...

Kolkata: State correctional administration department is concerned over a few recent incidents in which undertrial prisoners were found to have...

Kolkata: Considering the growing needs for quality education in the state and also to cater to the growing number of students, the Bengal government...

Kolkata: Bengal government has taken up a unique project to convert one school in each district to a residential school where, children engaged in...

Kolkata: Various social security schemes introduced by the state Labour department have received an impetus this year, with around 1,63,835 workers...

Kolkata: In a unique initiative, the state agriculture department is installing as many as 180 meteorological observatories in the agricultural farms...

Kolkata: The state Health department has issued an order instructing all the government-run blood banks across the state to carry out blood audit in...

Kolkata: A medical aspirant from the state with a hearing impairment moved the Calcutta High Court after he was denied quota seat under Person with...

Kolkata: Dr Asit Kumar Panja, an ayurvedic genius from an obscure village in Bankura's Joyrambati, has been nominated as an expert by the Ministry of...

Kolkata: A recent notification issued by the West Bengal University of Health Sciences (WBUHS) regarding the medical counselling has triggered...