Vaishali Jadhav

A cop’s daughter and her husband have been arrested by Koparkhairne police for burglary at a row house in Ghansoli on May 29.

As many as 129 housing societies in the city have been given permission by the PMC to hold vaccination drives on their premises, so far, civic officials have said.

The Pune Municipal Corporation’s health department has decided to start an independent web portal for doctors practising within the municipal limits to curb bogus practitioners and enable citizens to access the educational qualification of the doctor.

A two-month long survey by the Pune Municipal Corporation has found that some 1.73 lakh women in the city underwent family planning procedures, compared to just 82 men.

Thirty small hospitals/ nursing homes in the city may finally start Covid vaccinations on their premises after the Union government made direct purchases from the manufacturers redundant from July 1. These setups have placed their individual orders of the vaccines collectively amounting to over 1.30 lakh doses through CoWIN in the last 48 hours alone.

The latest amendment in the central act governing the use of sonography machine has provided huge relief to government and semi-government hospitals and dispensaries across the country.

Two non-scalpel vasectomies were carried out at the civic-run Namdeo Genuji Shivarkar Hospital in Wanowrie on Monday, following a gap of 20 years, during which the operation theatre of the health hub was kept shut owing to the pending works, lack of staffers and the alleged unwillingness of PMC to make the facility operational.

At a time of soaring out-of-pocket expenses, it has emerged the PMC has been sitting on a welfare plan that could've helped the city's poor save thousands of rupees in medical bills.

Two men were arrested by the social security cell of the crime branch at Bund Garden Road on Friday evening, for possessing spurious foreign liquor.

A harrowed Bhoiwada resident said on Friday she was unable to meet her 15-yearold niece at KEM's ICU for want of a pass. “I have no idea what it is. I was supposed to feed her after giving her a sponge bath,“ Vaishali Jadhav said. Her niece was admitted to the hospital after consuming pesticide.

Under the state's 'Jagruk Paalak, Sudrud Baalak' programme, Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has screened over 1 lakh children in the city from private schools and junior colleges for four Ds - diseases, deficiencies, defects and developmental disorders.

After a string of movies in which the leading ladies performed item songs, Marathi filmmakers are now roping in the original item girls and lavani artistes for their films

A 58-year-old man died of malaria-induced complications at a private hospital two weeks ago. This is the first reported malaria death in the city this year. Every death due to the disease is a setback to the malaria elimination goal which the state plans to achieve by 2025.

Many flyers have expressed amusement as well as concern over a stray cat that has been spotted roaming around on the Lohegaon airport premises.

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is cracking the whip on hookah parlours across the city, following a spate of complaints from various sections of society against their operation.

Critical central government aid has now started to pour into 19 out of the 53 PMC hospitals, maternity homes and dispensaries in the city after civic officials finally set up 'hospital committees' to oversee the units, a prerequisite to claim the financial assistance.