Until just a few years ago, almost all the polio cases in the world were confined to Pakistan. Now, the country is making its move to eliminate the disease from within its borders. Literally thousands of healthcare workers are giving vaccination to children at transit points across the country- from bus stops to border crossings […]
As part of the WHO’s initiative to better the quality of maternal and newborn healthcare, India has joined eight other nations. The Quality of Care(QoC) improvement network was launched by the WHO and other partners in February in the East African nation of Malawi. The only other Asian nation in the group is Bangladesh. The […]
31 year old Dr Rohan Mhamukar who was assaulted by patient’s kin on Sunday in Dhule, Maharashtra has reached his Mumbai home, seeking treatment for the grave injuries he sustained. “I wish I had taken up engineering instead of medicine. I qualified for both courses,” said the doctor. Dr Rohan is to meet the dean […]
A recent medicolegal case which was heard in the Hon. Orissa High Court highlights an instance in which a doctor failed to inform patient of risks of suggested treatment. The patient eventually died, but the doctor was cleared of ‘culpable homicide’ charges. The accusation Susanta Kumar Takur filed a complaint claiming that the MD Gynecologist- […]
Dr Rohan Mamunkar, an orthopaedic surgeon was brutally assaulted by family members of a patient when he asked them to take the patient to another centre as there was no neurosurgeon on duty. The gory incident took place at the Government Medical College in Dhule, Maharashtra on Sunday night. It’s said that the patient was […]
During the 1960s, a young hippie named Larry Brilliant came to Indian from his homeland in America and played a central role in eradicating smallpox in India. Though exciting, his tale is hardly known to many Indians. Smallpox has killed an estimated 300 million to 500 million people in the 20th century alone. The disease […]
The death of three people who were connected to different dialysis machines due to similar causes in around the same time has left doctors baffled. The incident took place in a hospital in Puducherry. Nephrologists are of the opinion that death of patients on dialysis because of power fluctuations is ‘nearly impossible.’ The equipment for […]
Indian doctors said that the 37 year old Egyptian – said to be the world’s heaviest woman-has undergone successfully a weight-loss surgery after losing more than 100 kilograms. The woman, Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty previously weighed about 500 kilograms. She has never left her house in Egypt for more than two decades. She arrived […]
Bonded for two years The Odisha government is to launch a system by which medical students would have to execute a two year bond for admission into PG courses in medical colleges. According to a government resolution, both fresh and in-service candidates must sign the bond for gaining admission to PG courses in government medical […]
A host of leading doctors from across India came together in Mumbai last month for a three-day meet where they proposed solutions to the high cost of medical care which is prohibitively high for the majority of Indians. High volume and low cost One major concern that the doctors expressed was over the increasingly commercial […]