At least 22 people have been killed in two separate fires in India, most of them patients who were trapped in the intensive care unit of a major hospital, officials said Tuesday.
Two people have been killed and at least 15 injured in a fire at a hospital in the western German city of Bochum and efforts to douse the flames are ongoing, the fire department and hospital officials said on Friday.
Staff at a hospital in eastern Saudi Arabia have gone on strike over unpaid wages, workers said on Monday, in the kingdom's latest case of corporate financial difficulties.
A doctor and a hospital attendant have been arrested for the alleged rape of a woman who was being treated at a top hospital in western India, a police officer said Friday.
One of the convicts in the 2012 Delhi gang rape case was admitted to hospital on Thursday after he tried to commit suicide in jail, officials said.
An Indian policeman who spent two months swallowing knives and had 40 of them surgically removed said Tuesday that ‘spiritual powers’ made him do it.
More than 40 days of clashes between protesters and security forces have overwhelmed the main hospital in Indian-administered Kashmir, where some patients with severe injuries said they had been beaten in their homes by troops.
Scores of fly-infested mentally disabled patients have been found naked and filthy at a government-run hospital in India, prompting an outcry, a charity worker said Thursday.
It was a bizarre sight -- 20 toilet rolls set on fire and lined up in rows after being drenched in fuel. But for pilot Geoff Cobden, it was the only way he could safely land his plane in the dark of night in a remote area of Australia.
A roadside bomb apparently targeting a judge injured at least 13 people in Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta on Thursday, officials said, days after a major attack killed most of the city's senior lawyers.
A suicide bomber in Pakistan killed at least 70 people and wounded more than a hundred in an attack on mourners gathered at a hospital in Quetta, according to officials in the southwestern province of Baluchistan.
The former president of Singapore, S R Nathan, is in a critical condition in hospital after suffering a stroke on Sunday morning, a statement from the Prime Minister's Office said.
