Are Hospitals Hiring Unregistered Nurses Despite Indian Nursing Council Rules?

INC Rules Mandate Registration, Yet Many Private Hospitals Blatantly Flout Them

Yashoda Hospital: Man Alleges Medical Negligence Claimed Wife’s Life

On February 2, 2024, 77-year-old Savita Sharma was admitted to Yashoda Superspeciality Hospital & Cancer Institute in Sanjay Nagar, Ghaziabad, for the treatment of a stomach ulcer. Two weeks and two surgeries later, she passed away, leaving her 79-year-old husband, Vijay Kumar Sharma, to demand answers.

Medical Negligence: Who Killed Simran?

Medical Negligence: Simran Chhabra walked into a Gurugram hospital with mild symptoms of fever. Within minutes, she died after being administered an injection, sparking shocking allegations of medical negligence, cover-ups, and a failed investigation.

Medical Negligence Alleged: Vision Loss in Two Babies

Medical negligence allegations from two families assert that their babies will endure a lifetime of vision impairment due to critical screenings that were not performed by a hospital in West Bengal.

NLU Delhi: Another Student Death and an Explosive Email Trail

On September 4, tragedy struck the National Law University Delhi when Amrutavarshiny Senthil Kumar, a third-year BA LLB Honours student, was found dead in her hostel room. While reporting on Amrutavarshiny's case, we spoke to many insiders at NLUD who said her case highlights the systemic issues plaguing institutions like the National Law University, including entrenched caste-based discrimination, sexual harassment, and mental health struggles among students. Less than a month after Amrutavarshiny's untimely death, a first-year student of NLU Delhi was found dead, further intensifying concerns.

Dead Bodies Denied Dignity in Death, Humans Denied Dignity in Life

Delhi in the last 24 hours: a night of mourning

These are the visuals that we captured yesterday in Delhi. Over 100 dead bodies were cremated at the Old Seemapuri Cremation Ground in East Delhi. Over 20 dead bodies were still in waiting as there was no space to accommodate their cremations. This was the situation in just one of the numerous cremation centres in Delhi. This is perhaps one of the worst tragedies the national capital has ever seen in the last many years. 

Modern-Day Slavery: Bonded Labour Spares Neither Young Nor Old

The Probe Investigation | Heartbreaking Testimonies Uncover India's Bonded Labour Crisis. Young and Old Share Harrowing Experiences, Revealing a Generational Cycle of Servitude. Pintu Kumar, a 16-year-old from Chhapra in Bihar, describes the severe hardships he faced starting at the age of 14 when he was coerced into bonded labour. Pintu's account of his experience is chilling: "I was forced into being a bonded labourer. They would make me carry heavy loads. When I said it was too heavy, they would abuse and hurt me. They had locked me up and forced me to work. I had no freedom. I was a slave." There are many like Pintu. Some children are trafficked, while others are sent off by parents who are extremely poor and have no other means to raise their children. Mohammed Ullah's decision to send his 14-year-old son, Sakib, to work in a factory resulted in unforeseen consequences when Sakib was forced into slavery in Bihar. Reflecting on his decision, Ullah expressed the economic desperation that led to this grave situation: "Hum majdoor hain. Hum majboor the. Hum gareeb hain" — "I am a labourer. I was helpless. I am poor." Lukas Lomga, rescued bonded labourer | Photo courtesy: Self Similarly, 24-year-old Lukas Lomga from Simdega in Jharkhand shares a painful recount of his childhood ensnared in bonded labour. Forced into this brutal reality at just 12 years old, Lukas was trafficked to various cities including Delhi and Jaipur for bonded labour. "Until I was finally rescued, as a child I was trafficked to many places. I had no freedom. My employers would beat me. I would be abused. My entire childhood went off in being a bonded labourer," Lukas recounts. Trafficked, Tortured, Hands Chopped Off Dayalu Nial | Bonded labour Dayalu Nial, a former bonded labourer was trafficked, tortured and his hand chopped off | Photo courtesy: Self The heart-wrenching story of Dayalu Nial, a resident of Odisha, alongside Nilambar Dhangdamajhi, offers a stark glimpse into the brutal realities of debt bondage in India. Both men had initially taken money from an agent, ostensibly for work, but soon realised they had been ensnared in a trap. Their situation took a dire turn when they discovered they were being taken to Andhra Pradesh, not Chhattisgarh as they had been led to believe. Their attempt to escape was tragically foiled; they were captured, imprisoned, and their hands were chopped off in 2013. In 2014, the Supreme Court stepped in, urging the Odisha government to expedite legal proceedings against the traffickers and to ensure rehabilitation for Nial and Dhangdamajhi. By 2016, justice seemed to prevail somewhat as a court in Odisha sentenced eight men to life imprisonment for trafficking the labourers and subjecting them to torture. Tragically, in the same year, Dhangdamajhi succumbed to illness. In an interview with The Probe, Nial recounts the harrowing ordeal: "We were locked up in a room and we were beaten up very badly. They closed our mouths and then they chopped our hands. We really suffered a lot. It’s even difficult to think about that suffering. I can’t explain it. It is that painful.