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After PM Modi announced the launch of the Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) on Sunday, AIIMS has become the first hospital in Delhi to sign on for the scheme. On Tuesday, AIIMS signed a MoU with the National Health Agency that is responsible for the scheme's implementation.

In a bid to lend a helping hand to overburdened nurses and medics, hospitals in US have started using Moxi, a socially intelligent robot that can assist the clinical staff in day-to-day tasks. The robot, which is backed by machine intelligence, uses its dexterous hands to take supplies to doctors.

Four staff members of Hyderabad's Kamineni Hospital were sacked for clicking a selfie with the dead body of actor-politician Nandamuri Harikrishna, who passed away earlier this week. The management apologized for the staff members and said their actions to save Harikrishna have been washed away.

When a team of AIIMS doctors approached a 22-year-old brain-dead man's family requesting them to donate his organs, they were met with a unique proposition. The family was willing to donate his organs, but insisted to make arrangements to preserve his sperm. However, the request was declined.