NAGPUR: To celebrate the 25th annual eye donation fortnight, doctors at the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) organised a ` Free eye diagnosis and eye donation camp` at Wakilpeth. The aim was to raise awareness about the importance and need for eye donation, along with screening of the local population for eye-related problems.

About a week earlier, representatives of GMCH had spread the word about the camp with the help of local authorities. The camp was held on Sunday from 9am to 2pm at Swawlambi Matimandha School at Jaitala. It was free and open to all.

NAGPUR: The death of three more H1N1 positive women in the isolation ward of Government Medical College and Hospital on Thursday, has again underlined the higher susceptibility of women to the virus. Although all the three women died on Thursday, the hospital declared their death as H1N1 positive only on Friday after their reports were received from National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune.

NAGPUR: Indira Gandhi Government Medical College (IGGMC) is in the news but mostly for all the wrong reasons. This time it is the students' hostels where the situation is beyond pathetic. Students in the undergraduate women's hostel found mosquito larvae in their drinking water recently. Further scrutiny led to finding other parasites and cysts.

"Almost every day someone suffers from diarrhoea, vomiting, stomach pain or develops fever. One student was even rushed to the casualty department due to unbearable stomach ache. This, when we have exams going on." said one hosteller.

AMRAVATI: The sleuths of State Crime Investigation Department (CID) have arrested two clerks , Shailendra Pardeshi and Vijay Dolas , of health department, Pune, in connection with Rs 18 crore medicine scam.

Residents of Pune - Pardeshi and Dolas are working as clerks in audit section of health department, Pune. Cops arrested the duo on Friday, brought them to Amravati on Saturday, produced before the court and got their PCR. Both clerks used to sign fraud bills which used to be forwarded to audit office, Nagpur.

NAGPUR: Although the death toll of H1N1 patients admitted in both government hospitals in the city has touched 10, most patients are from neigbouring towns and cities. Authorities continue to insist that there is no cause to panic. However, in case of increase in inflow of patients to and from the city, the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) has restarted a 20-bed dedicated isolation ward since last Sunday for swine flu.

NAGPUR: Police have booked three doctors of state government run Daga Hospital here for their alleged negligence causing injuries threatening danger to life during a cesarean operation of a 24-year-old.

Police said the trio, Dr Manish Baheti, Dr Nidhi Kharabe and Dr Jailaxmi Behra, performed cesearian operation on one Sheikh Parveen Sheikh Ashfaque on April 6 at Daga Hospital.

NAGPUR: Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has served notices to 23 hospitals that have not approached the health department to re new their registrations and are operating without proper permission.

NAGPUR: Rains bring relief from infamous Nagpur summer. They also bring mosquitoes. With monsoon setting in, people are bracing for return of the mosquitoes and the diseases they spread. In its pre-monsoon preparations, NMC concentrates on issues like water logging, potholes, nullah cleaning etc.

But there is no mention of mosquito menace which is inevitable part of rainy season. With the monsoon already here, NMC officials have yet not started fogging, spraying and taking other precautionary measures to check mosquito breeding.