Ranchi: Annoyed by the lackadaisical approach of Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences’ (Rims) director over non-compliance in furnishing medical reports of jailed RJD president Lalu Prasad, the Jharkhand high court on Friday issued a showcause notice to the director. The court gave the director the last opportunity to table Lalu’s medical report and said it will hear the matter again on February 19.
The court of Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh issued the notice while hearing a petition filed for violation of provisions of the jail manual by Lalu. The court had ordered Rims to produce the medical reports of Lalu Prasad earlier, which was not complied with.
Ranchi: Illegal vendors have encroached both sides of the roads leading to the New Trauma Centre and super-speciality block of the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (Rims), slowing down traffic in the vicinity.
Notably, hundreds of vendors were evicted from the Rims campus during a drive carried out by the hospital authorities with the help of the district administration and the Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) on December 23. But the same set of vendors started setting up their shops near the New Trauma Centre a couple of days after the eviction drive.
When TOI spoke with doctors, ambulance drivers and patients’ kin who regularly use the stretch, they said the mushrooming of illegal vendors has increased the chances of accidents and infection scare as critical Covid-19 patients are treated at the New Trauma Centre.
Ranchi: Incarcerated RJD president Lalu Prasad was shifted to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, in an air ambulance on Saturday evening on the recommendation of an eight-member medical board comprising doctors of the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (Rims), where he was undergoing treatment while serving prison terms in various fodder scam cases.
Accompanied by daughter Misa Bharti accompanied, Lalu was wheeled out of the Rims paying ward at about 5:15pm and taken to the Birsa Munda International Airport in an ambulance. Lalu’s wife and former Bihar CM Rabri Devi and younger son and the leader of opposition in the Bihar assembly, Tejashwi Yadav, were also on the flight air ambulance that took him to the national capital.
Ranchi: The second day of the Covid-19 vaccination drive, which resumed after a day’s break, was smooth as none of the 48 centres across the state rep.
Ranchi: RJD leader and Bihar MLA Tej Pratap Yadav on Saturday expressed concern over the health of his ailing father Lalu Prasad after meeting him at .