Instance 1 At a rally during the recent UP election campaign, the PM, Narendra Modi became vocal about how his government has massively slashed the prices of stents. According to him, the decision would help the poor with heart ailments a lot. The stents which were earlier sold at Re. 45,000 now come at just […]
Even as the central govt. mulls drafting a law for safety of doctors and health professionals at the work place, violence against doctors in Indian hospitals continue. A recent incident One of the recent incidents took place in Karnataka, in the Vijayanagar Institute of Medical Sciences(VIMS) to be precise. On Monday, doctors of the hospital-including […]
Delamanid is one of the two new drugs for TB treatment. The choices for treating multi-drug resistant as well as extensively drug resistant TB is shrinking. In this context, Delamanid is a welcome addition. However, it’s highly unlikely that the drug would get authorization for marketing. The manufactures has submitted the application with the DCGI, […]
An overwhelming 5,070 gallstones were removed from a 45 year old man at a hospital in Rajastan’s Kota. The news is making headlines in many a mainstream media. The patient, Mohammad Shabbir is a grocery shop owner who has been suffering from stomach pains for the last three years. It was in mid-February that he […]
A study reveals that medical students and trainee doctors make up over half of all the injuries made by pricks from infected needles in hospitals. Aside from being overworked, these doctors and students don’t get vaccinated against diseases which could be transmitted through infected blood. The dangers of such injuries and the health risk that […]
The government said on Thursday that 4,000 Post Graduate medical seats have been approved in different medical colleges and hospitals for the 2017-18 academic session. The government has termed the number a record in medical academics till date. As of now, the total number of PG seats available in the country is 35,117. “In a […]
Dr Shankare Gowda is known as the ‘Five rupees doctor’- an epithet which he ought to wear with pride given how well-earned it is. For the doctor who hails from Shivalli in Karnataka is someone who treats patients for just 5 rupees. And that’s not the extent of the man’s humanitarianism- he treats around 150 […]
It was the deadly disease that he has- thalassemia major-which inspired Rohan Jobanputra to become a doctor. The 22 year old from Ahmedabad passed the exam this week, all the while struggling with the disease. Many people advised him to choose a job which someone with the disease could comfortably do. Evidently, the man has […]
A letter that was allegedly written by a doctor working in the Srinagar Medical College to the MCI has irked the college authorities. In the letter, the doctor- who is a faculty member of the college urged the MCI to cancel the college’s affiliation until the conditions improve. But instead of taking any positive measures […]
Faced with extraordinary issues like manpower crunch and infection control, the critical care sector in India still does a great job of saving lives. A recent article that appeared in the Indian magazine, The Week points out this often overlooked aspect of our healthcare sector. Some of the aspects that the article try to draw […]