Global Handwashing day is celebrated every year on October 15th to create an awareness and understanding of the benefits of handwashing with soap. This year, the theme focuses on the links between handwashing and food – including food hygiene and nutrition. It is a fact that most of the people find it unimportant to wash […]
Decoding some doctor’s handwriting is the most nerve-wracking task for the patients, their attendants or sometimes for other doctors. It is a fact that most of the general public couldn’t understand the prescriptions. What some doctors write on the prescriptions, either they or the pharmacists could apprehend it. A patient can understand nothing but some […]
The Health Ministry has finally responded to the plea raised by the medical practitioners who had received their post-graduate degrees from MCI recognized medical colleges but stuck in the position of senior residents in various medical colleges across the country. The Ministry has asked the MCI board of Governors to look into the matter. What […]
For his outstanding contribution to the health sector, Indian orthopaedic surgeon Prof. Dr Raju Vaishya has been honoured with ‘Pride of Asia- Health Excellence award’. Dr Vaishya, who also is the president of Arthritis Care Foundation and Indian Cartilage Society has also made a record by publishing 58 research papers in 2015 alone. Her Royal […]
No doctor can be arrested directly for medical negligence under the Bihar Medical Institution and Protection Rules 2018. The state cabinet has approved the rules of Bihar Medical Institution and Person protection act 2011. As per the Indian Medical Association (IMA), this will boost the doctors’ security and protect healthcare facilities. Doctors could previously be […]
Last six months was a roller coaster ride for a four-year-old little girl and her family. As the fate played tricks in her life in the form of a fatal accident, severe head injuries and trauma were the ordeals for the little girl and her family. The four-year-old however miraculously survived, but the accident left […]
When it comes to the health sector, India is always known to have an acute shortage of doctors, though some states is an exception. Now, while states with enough number of doctors and medical colleges are continuing to allow new private medical colleges, states like Jharkhand and Bihar, with an acute shortage of doctors have […]
Sariful Alam was on his way to college from home at Sylhet in Bangladesh when he met with an accident. He was a final year MBBS student when the fate played this game on him in 1995. Alam had multiple injuries in the accident with fractures of two major bones, including the right arm and […]
The Chennai city-based doctors have carried out an innovative technique called ‘pinhole pupilloplasty’ which is aimed to correct the vision of patients with astigmatism. The doctors have sutured up the iris, the coloured part of the eye to reduce the size of the pupil to a pinhole. The technique has helped ten people with astigmatism, […]
In three separate cases, the Lucknow bench of Allahabad Court has imposed a fine of Rs. 5000 each on three doctors for illegible handwriting. The accused doctors are Dr PK Goel of Sitapur, Dr TP Jaiswal of Unnao and Dr Ashish Saxena of Gonda. The injury reports of the victims of three criminal cases that […]