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 […]
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 […]
When Dr. Zarir Udwadia wrote a letter to a medical journal regarding patients in Mumbai suffering from an non-treatable form of TB, he hoped it would move authorities to heighten the fight against the disease. However, what happened was that the Indian government came out with a backlash, landing the Mumbai based doctor in controversy. […]
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 […]