Vardhan opens Burns & Plastic Surgery Block at Delhi AIIMS, says India reports 70 lakh burn injuries annually

New Delhi, January 18: Around 70 lakh people in India suffer from burn injuries annually with mortality rate as high as 1.4 lakh per year and an additional 2.4 lakh patients end up with severe deformities, said Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan, after inaugurating newly constructed Burns and Plastic Surgery Block […]

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Jaga & Kalia set for happy homecoming

Bhubaneswar: Separated craniopagus conjoined twins – Jaga and Kalia – will return to Odisha soon and they will be shifted to a hospital in Bhubaneswar, informed National Health Mission (NHM) Managing Director Shalini Pandit after holding talks with doctors at AIIMS, New Delhi on Saturday. Jaga and Kalia were craniopagus conjoined twins – joined at […]

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Naveen urges Nadda to continue treatment of Jaga, Balia at AIIMS, New Delhi

Bhubaneswar: Maintaining that the doctors at AIIMS, New Delhi is pressing to discharge Jaga and Balia (Kalia), the craniopagus twins who were separated on October 25, 2017 and since then undergoing treatment there, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday requested Union Health Minister JP Nadda to advise the AIIMS authorities to continue the treatment and […]

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