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 […]
For the Indian medical graduates who return to India after completing the studies abroad, the life that follows is different from what we anticipate. Take the example of Kumar Yadav, who completed his MBBS from a Medical College in Nepal. He completed his studies in 2016 but hasn’t visited his hometown in Bihar in two […]
Image tweeted by @Nobelprize Two scientists who discovered new approaches in harnessing the immune system to fight cancer won the 2018 Nobel prize for Medicine. James Allison of the U.S. and Tasuku Honjo of Japan will share the Nobel prize sum of nine million Swedish kronor (about $1.01 million). “Allison and Honjo have shown, how […]
Image: ANI Rural Healthcare is still struggling to provide all the facilities at its best to the people. Shortage of staff, medical equipment, medicines are few among the many problems which rural India still finds it hard to meet. But the doctors in the hospital of Odisha’s Mayurbhanj demands something basic. Electricity. These doctors in […]
The government has appointed a seven-member board to supersede the Medical Council of India. The new board will now be going to run the Council till the parliament passes the National Medical Commission Bill. Following an ordinance signed by the president Ram Nath Kovind, the health ministry has issued a notification asking the officials of […]
According to the latest study in PLoS medicine, in India, private practitioners are delivering inadequate care to the TB patients. The study was conducted in Mumbai and Patna. The study warns that almost 6 out of 10 TB patients visiting private doctors in these two places fail to get medical treatment. The findings came ahead […]
Emergency care is vital in the case of accident victims. In such a situation, while a person stands between the line of life and death, even the slightest emergency care can make a difference. A group of doctors and tech specialists from Karnataka are joining hands to launch a ‘saviour campaign’. The campaign is intended […]