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Sujeet Singh, former Director, National Centre of Disease Control says the focus should be on identifying the type of conjunctivitis prevailing.
The medical team at Max's facility in Saket performed an extensive six-hour surgery to extract two tumors situated at the upper region of the kidney, weighing 4.5 kg and 1 kg, respectively.
Terming hypertension an epidemic plaguing India, Dr. Samir Kubba, Director of Clinical and Interventional Cardiology in Max Hospital, Vaishali, said the disease is now being seen in adolescents and cases of hypertension have also been reported by schools.
Competition Commission of India (CCI) has demanded answers from Max Healthcare, Fortis Healthcare and Apollo Hospitals on how they fix prices of medicines and medical devices. Action could rein in soaring drug prices in India.
The case pertains to a baby boy being wrongly declared dead after his birth on November 30 by the upscale private hospital. The other twin, a girl, was still-born. The infant boy died a week later at a nursing home.
The case triggered an outrage, prompting the AAP government's Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) to cancel the hospital's licence on December 8 for alleged medical negligence.
The family of the twin babies, one of whom was wrongly declared dead by Max Hospital demanded a CBI probe into the case after an appellate authority stayed the Delhi government order cancelling the hospital's licence.
"Our deepest condolences are with the parents and other family members. While we understand that survival in extreme preterm births is rare, it is always painful for the parents and family. We wish them the strength to cope with their loss," it said.
